Abstract: The Shao films of Huangmei opera, though only one of opera film genres, have distinctive features. It can be said that, under the guidance of industrial principles, it tries to make a modern approach to the opera film and provides useful practice for modern transformation of traditional arts. This unique art focus on the film structure of popular, separated, national arias, and the Huangmei song of pleasing to ear, and the realism of style, time, space and action. Although being different from the “original” Huangmei opera, it gives a “creative” art, embodying the rethinking on the art connation, that is, the Huangmei opera on basis of fitting into the film and facing the mass market.

Key words: film genre, modern transformation of traditional arts, Huangmei opera film