White-haired Girl and Red Leaf River.
After checking the Fun History website, China’s first new opera was The White-Haired Girl, a new opera created in the liberated areas in the 1940s. Chiye River is a representative work of the new operas in the 1940s, and the plot reflects the old liberated areas. It is a story about poor peasants who were exploited and oppressed by the landlord class, but under the leadership of the party, they rose up against the landlords and rebelled.
New opera is a dramatic form with Chinese characteristics that has been gradually developed since the May Fourth Movement. It integrates music, poetry, dance and other arts and focuses on singing.