Seventy-seven years ago today, on June 29, 1948 (May 23, 1948), Mei Lanfang starred in China's first color film. In June 1948, the first color opera film "Life and Death Hate" starring Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang began filming, which was also China's first color film. Produced by Huayi Film Company, directed by Fei Mu, starring Mei Lanfang, the famous photographer Huang Shaofen as the director of photography, and Li Shengwei as the cinematographer. The film is based on the stage play of the same name starring Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang. The original play has been cut and shot on 16mm color film, and then reproduced to 35mm. Mei Lanfang as Han Yuniang On August 11, 1896, another village in Xuyuan, Shanghai screened "Western Movie", which was the first film screening in China. In 1905, Ren Qingtai (word Jingfeng), the founder of Fengtai Photography Studio in Beijing, filmed "Dingjun Mountain" starring Tan Xinpei, which was the first film made by the Chinese themselves. Tan Xinpei (April 23, 1847 - May 10, 1917), whose real name was Jin Fu and word Wangzhong, was a famous Chinese Peking Opera performing artist and the founder of the Tan School of Peking Opera. He was revered as the originator of Peking Opera and was also praised by the king of the opera world. Its innovation of Peking Opera art has played a role in the continuation of the past and the opening of the future, and has a profound impact on future generations. There is a saying in Tan Xinpei's "Dingjun Mountain". In the 1920s, Master Mei Lanfang also starred in some operas such as Peking Opera "Tiannu Sanhua", "Daiyu Burial Flower", "Mulan Enlistment in the Army", "Xi Shi", "Feather Dance", "Farewell My Concubine", "Sword Dance", "Mrs. Shangyuan", "Dusting Dance", and Kunqu Opera "Spring Fragrance Naughty Learning". Mei Lanfang's "Daiyu Burial Flower" was filmed after the first sound film appeared in 1930. Mainly include Peking Opera "Shiro's Mother Exploration", "Zhou Yu's Return to Heaven", "Farewell My Concubine", "Lin Chong's Night Run", "Chop the Classical Hall", "Sanniang's Godchild", the Peking Opera film "Song of Ancient China" directed by Fei Mu, including "Flooded Seven Armies", "Zhu Xianzhen" and "Wang Baochuan" and other plays, more famous is the Peking Opera film "Life and Death Hate" starring Fei Mu director Mei Lanfang. Chen Lifang's "Shiro's Mother Exploration" in the palace On June 29, 1948, China's first color film was born - "Life and Death Hate", "Life and Death Hate" is a Peking Opera stage film. It was not until 1953 that the Shanghai Film Studio released Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai (starring Yuan Xuefen and Fan Ruijuan), a color opera film directed by Sang Hu and photographed by Huang Shaofen. It was not only the first stage opera film shot in New China, but also the first color film shot in New China. The film "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" retains the beautiful singing characteristics of Yue Opera art, and at the same time, plays the advantages of color film, photography and art processing pursue the unique artistic conception of Chinese art. After the film was released, it was not only well received by the audience, but also won the first prize for excellent stage art film issued by the Ministry of Culture from 1949 to 1955, and won the Musical Film Award at the 1954 Carlovy Vary International Film Festival and the "Screening Award" at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. During the Geneva International Conference of the same year, Premier Zhou Enlai screened the film for the American movie star Chaplin, who called it "China's Romeo and Juliet". In 1956, also directed by Sang Lu, the Beijing Film Studio released New China's first color feature film "Blessing". The film was adapted from Mao Dun's novel of the same name and starred Bai Yang and Wei Heling. The film won the Special Prize at the 1957 Carloway Vary International Film Festival and the Silver Hat Award at the 1958 Mexican International Film Festival. Another peak of the 1962 opera film was the Yue Opera film "Dream of Red Mansions". Shooting a masterpiece in a capacity of more than three hours is a problem in itself. Fortunately, the screenwriter Xu Jin has deep skills, closely following the main line of love of Bao Dai, and the lyrics are elegant and fresh, which is quite expressive. The director connects the true and false scenes almost seamlessly (most of the scenes of the play are filmed in Yu Garden), and the rhythm is also well grasped. The performance is even better. Wang Wenjuan's Lin Daiyu, known as Live Daiyu, until today, Lin Daiyu shaped by all art forms, no one can surpass her role. According to incomplete statistics, the unique viewers of the Chinese mainland alone have reached 1.20 billion, making it a milestone in the history of Chinese opera and Chinese film. " After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Chinese movies revived, and the long-imprisoned people were hungry for spiritual food. The status of movies was unprecedented, and opera films also returned to normal track. During the golden period of film in the 1980s, there were five more popular opera films, namely "Iron Bow" starring Guan Yuyi, a genius in Peking Opera, "Legend of the White Snake" starring Li Bingshu, the star of the original model play "Ode to the Dragon River", "Li Huiniang" performed by Suzhou Peking Opera Troupe, "Five Women's Birthday Worship" by Yue Opera Little Baihua Troupe, and "Seven-Pin Zhima Guan" starring the famous ugly cow and grass in Henan Opera. " In the new century, the famous director Zhang Yuan shot the opera film "Sister Jiang", and the director of "Dazhuamen" Guo Baochang shot the opera film "Spring Boudoir Dream". Today, opera films have moved from film to television and online video. Opera films are not just opera films, but the birth of new technologies, especially the birth of different video recording modes. The dissemination of network video has made opera films gain a new communication space and recording form. " "Dream of Chungui" Chinese opera is the object of the creation of Chinese opera films - opera stage documentaries, opera art films, opera feature films, etc. It endows the art of opera with various cinematic things, and at the same time draws the influence of art, culture and even artistic inspiration from the tradition of opera art to enrich the creation of film feature films and other categories of films. Today, opera films play a new charm for the inheritance, development and dissemination of opera art.