The opera of the Ming Dynasty was an art developed and derived from the Song, Yuan, Southern and Jin and Yuan operas, including legendary operas and miscellaneous operas. Because the legendary opera developed from the Southern Opera, it is also known as the Southern Opera and is the main form of opera in the Ming Dynasty.

During the Wanli period, the creation of legends entered a climax, and the forms were more abundant, with famous works such as Gao Lian's "The Story of the Jade Hairpin" and Zhou Chaojun's "The Story of the Red Plum". Shen Jing of Wujiang and Tang Xianzu of Linchuan were the most important playwrights of this period. Shen Jing's legends include 17 kinds of legends, such as "The Legend of the Righteous Heroes" and "The Legend of the Red Fern", and the Wujiang faction headed by him attaches great importance to the rhythm of music, emphasizes the true character of the opera language, and maintains the status of the Kun dialect. Tang Xianzu's masterpieces include "The Story of the Purple Hairpin", "The Peony Pavilion", "The Story of Handan" and "The Story of Nanke", known as the "Four Dreams of Jade Tea Hall", among which the "Peony Pavilion" has the highest achievement.

And now Zhu Youxiao's practice of publishing articles and writing has made a large number of folk opera artists dedicate their works in order to be published. A large number of students in the opera class in the Sun Moon Hall are responsible for reviewing these works, selecting some works that they think are okay, and after being reviewed by worshippers like Wu Bing Fan Wenruo in the Sun Moon Hall, they feel that there is no big problem in terms of concept, so they can be published.

After the work is printed, it takes time to pay the original author for the pen polishing, at which point the original author needs to sign a creative rights transfer agreement. The author said that the adaptation right of this work already belongs to Da Ming Sun Moon Hall.

The Sun Moon Hall will recommend some of these legends, miscellaneous dramas, and other works that are more in line with His Majesty's requirements to the Emperor. After Zhu Youxiao carefully selected, he marked out some of the ideas to be changed, or added some ideological content that he needed to be added, and the Sun Moon Hall revised them, so that they could be rehearsed under the guidance of the opera class, as is the case with "The Loyal General".

And Zhu Youxiao will also tell some of his thoughts to the hall master in the Sun Moon Hall, after Zhou Yanru went to the Americas, the current hall master is Fan Wenruo, he received the request from Zhu Youxiao, and then returned to the Sun Moon Hall to organize people to write and arrange.

Like Zhu Youxiao, who wanted to promote the remarriage of widows and let women control their own destiny, Riyuetang wrote a script: In the Han Dynasty, Wang Wan bravely divorced because she was abused by her husband, and then met the then prince Liu Qi, and the two fell in love, and finally gave birth to the famous Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty. Although it may not be quite consistent with historical facts, it is just an opera, and there is no restriction on writing according to historical facts. After the play spread, it also caused some repercussions, and some of the more enlightened parents occasionally consulted the parties when arranging marriages. Although the impact is not very great, Zhu Youxiao believes that the so-called subtle is his own purpose.

After "The Loyal General", the second play rehearsed by the Royal Theater was "Liaodong Chronicle", which tells the suffering experience of a family of five in Anshanyi, Liaodong. After the Battle of Salhu, Jiannu captured Anshanyi, and his father was killed by Jiannu along with his mother because he was unwilling to cooperate with Jiannu. The eldest son fled Anshan and went to southern Liaoning, but the second son voluntarily shaved his hair and took refuge in Jiannu in order to keep his six-year-old younger brother in the family.

The eldest son fled to Golden State, joined the Guards, and grew from an ordinary soldier to a Guards battalion commander. He never dared to forget the blood feud at home, and always thought about going back to his hometown to find Jiannu for revenge.

The second son originally intended to keep his younger brother, but he didn't want Jiannu to let the two brothers make clothes, and then killed his younger brother when there was a shortage of food, so as to save a sum of rations. And the second son, in the retreat again and again, did not have the courage to fight with Jiannu who killed his younger brother, but became an accomplice of Jiannu and squeezed the Han people in Anshan Post together.

When the Guards attacked Anshan, the second son was captured by the Guards to which the eldest son was. When the brothers met, they hugged and cried when they talked about what happened to their parents and younger brother. However, after Jinyiwei found out about the evil deeds of the second son, he wanted to arrest the second son for interrogation. The eldest son didn't believe that his younger brother would do such a thing, so he refused to let him go, and had a conflict with Jinyiwei.

Jin Yiwei brought the witnesses to the eldest son, and when he heard the cry of the witnesses, the eldest son came to his senses. He asked his brother, "Have you forgotten the hatred of your parents?" Have you forgotten who killed your little brother? “

The second son was silent, and the brocade guard next to him said: "People, you can't back down in front of some things, after you retreat once, you will definitely retreat a second time, and slowly after you encounter something, you will first think of retreating." For the evil deeds of Jiannu, if every Han Chinese chose not to back down and fled, or if they could not escape, they destroyed their livestock, destroyed their farm tools, and burned their grain, then Jiannu might have been destroyed long ago. Remember this lesson, good people! “

This drama has caused many people to think about what we should do in the face of major rights and wrongs. The second son wanted to protect his younger brother and surrendered to Jiannu, with good intentions, but it turned out to be like this, because he had illusions about Jiannu, but he didn't think that it was impossible to succeed in seeking skin with the tiger.

The third scene of the Royal Theatre is "The Legend of the Yingying", which is adapted from the familiar "The Legend of the West Chamber", in fact, if you really want to talk about the original work, when Yuan Zhen wrote it, it was called "The Legend of the Yingying".

The biggest difference between this play and Yuan Zhen's "The Legend of the Yingying" and Wang Shifu's "The Legend of the West Chamber" is the ending. The ending of Yuan Zhen is that Zhang Shengshi is chaotic and abandoned, and Wang Shifu's ending is that everyone is happy. In the play, it was Cui Yingying who took the initiative to reconcile with Zhang Sheng (that is, divorce), because she found out that Zhang Sheng didn't actually love her, so she bravely chose to leave. Then he met a poor but sincere small businessman, and after some experiences together, a good feeling developed between the two. After tying the knot, the small businessman and his wife worked together to live a good life.

This play was changed according to Zhu Youxiao's request, Wu Bing, Fan Wenruo and others felt that the change was very unsuccessful, and the emperor just wanted to use this play to promote that women should control their own destiny, and at the same time take the opportunity to improve the status of merchants. But in Zhu Youxiao's view, of course, drama must have a theme, and isn't it the purpose of art to promote the beauty of true goodness? Wouldn't it be better if you could incorporate some of your own ideas by the way?

After the Royal Theatre was built, a new play was introduced every once in a while. These dramas more or less integrate the meaning that Zhu Youxiao wants to express, such as what to keep order and queue, like not to insult other people's families, these concepts that are either stiff or mellow mixed in the drama slowly diverge.