On February 24 (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month), the "Lantern Festival Opera Special Program of the Literary and Art Program Center of Radio and Television Station "Water Rhyme Jiangsu Meixiang Taizhou" was broadcast on the opera channel (CCTV11), CCTV, CCTV and other platforms. The program brought together nearly 20 opera genres from Beijing, Kunming, Henan, Yue, Huang, etc., and dozens of Chinese Theatre Plum Blossom Award winners and more than 100 outstanding actors from all over the country came to the stage to perform on stage, and gathered in Taizhou, the hometown of Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang, to spend the festival together. 
This special program is co-sponsored by the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, the Taizhou Municipal People** and the General Station Literature and Art Program Center, and is performed from the perspectives of Shangyuan Lantern Festival, Meipai culture and opera art inheritance. The opening performance "Water Rhyme and Plum Fragrance" presents the rich and colorful local folk culture and strong Lantern Festival atmosphere with drum music. In "The Lantern on the New Year's Day", opera masters from Peking Opera, Huai Opera, Huangmei Opera and other operas jointly appeared, and the joyful atmosphere of the Lantern Festival and the reunion of thousands of families was set off through the "Newspaper Lantern Names" rich in the characteristics of various operas. 
Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera masters joined hands to perform "Drunken Beauty Encounter", "Peony Pavilion - Dream" and "The Legend of the White Snake - Swimming in the Lake" to narrate the feelings in the song of "One Eye for Ten Thousand Years";The five-tone opera "Kidnapping Mozi", the Huaihai opera "Back to My Mother's Home", and the flower drum opera "Lantern Festival" show the laughter, joy, jubilation and hot fireworks in the market lifeThe combination of Qingqu "Banqiao Daoqing" and Pingtan "Cai Hongling" is presented, and "Yanbo Jiangnan" brings the most lingering and beautiful characteristics of Jiangnan art to lifeThe classic repertoire of Su Opera, Yue Opera and Shanghai Opera "The Legend of Oiran", "Liang Zhu" and "Love in the Rain" are also staged in turn. "Jin Shengyu Zhen" is performed by old, middle and young Peking Opera masters and rookies from Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai in the hot land of "Meilang's Hometown and the Holy Land of Opera", "Six Out of Qishan", "Zhuang Farewell", "Mother-in-law's Tattoo", "Princess Shuangyang", "Erjin Palace" and other classic plays. The martial arts skewer program "Dragon Horse Spirit" was performed by outstanding young martial arts actors from various genres such as Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, and Jin Opera, singing, chanting, doing, and fighting, and stacking skills, bringing the party to another climax. 
Taizhou is the hometown of Mr. Mei Lanfang, a master of Peking Opera. The descendants of the Mei School from all over the country have taken the stage to perform, and classic Mei School plays such as "The Drunken Concubine", "Magu Presents Birthday" and "The Phoenix Returns to the Nest" have been presented one after another. The original opera song "Mei Lan Fanghua" jointly performed by veteran actor Fu Xiru and young singer Spring combines drama and pop subtlety;The opera "Little Plum Blossoms" from all over the country also showed the new power of opera in the children's program "The First Bloom of Meirui". At the end of the show, the poem "Bu Operator Yongmei" performed by Zhang Xinyue, the successor of the Mei faction, came to an end. In addition, Chen Delin, a famous Huai Opera performance artist, Liu Zhen, a Chinese opera scholar and former director of Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall, Mei Wei, the great-grandson of Mr. Mei Lanfang, Jiang Bo, a folk gourmet, and other guests from various cultural fields also visited the program, sharing cultural memories of opera and folk customs in the interactive session, showing the rich cultural foundation of opera art and the festive and peaceful folk heritage of the Lantern Festival.