The eight major model plays are: "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom", "The Story of the Red Lantern", "Shajiabang", "Harbor", "Assault on the White Tigers", and the revolutionary modern dance drama "The Red Detachment of Women" , "White-Haired Girl", revolutionary symphony "Shajiabang".

The earliest batch of revolutionary model plays "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom", "Red Lantern", "Shajiabang", "Assault on the White Tigers", "Harbor", "Red Detachment of Women", " "The White-Haired Girl" and the symphonic music "Shajiabang" successfully created a number of proletarian heroic models such as Yang Zirong, Li Yuhe, Guo Jianguang, Hong Changqing, Yan Weicai, Fang Haizhen, Xi'er, etc., completely changing the old opera stage where the emperor would The long-term presence of prime ministers, talented scholars and beautiful women and all kinds of reactionary figures or "middle figures" has turned the reversed history "on its head again and restored the true face of history."

In Baidu Encyclopedia, model opera is defined as "model opera refers to the common name of more than twenty stage art works mainly drama that were established as revolutionary model operas during the Cultural Revolution", and believes that the repertoire There are more than twenty.

In Wikipedia, model operas are defined as "referring to a group of official operas identified by the People's Daily and Xinhua News Agency as finalized in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution from 1967 to 1976, which mainly reflected China's A stage art work that reflects the political stance of the Communist Party." He also said that "model operas have been identified several times." When it comes to the number of model operas, Wikipedia says that "as of October 1976, there were approximately twenty-eight model operas." However, the number of operas it lists is far more than twenty-eight, reaching more than thirty. .