The aria "The North Wind Blows" in the opera "The White-Haired Girl" was created based on the Hebei folk song "Little Baicai".

"Little Baicai" uses very beautiful music materials and refined artistic techniques to create the image of an innocent poor rural girl. It profoundly expresses the sadness and pain of a girl who lost her mother and was abused and helpless. It is also an indictment of the unreasonable family relationships in the old society.

Source of "The White-Haired Girl":

It is understood that the White-Haired Girl originally came from a mysterious folk legend. The protagonist Xi'er in the legend, suffered from the old society's Due to the oppression and exploitation, she became a young man with white hair, so she was called the white-haired girl.

The White-Haired Girl uses the cruel fate that happened to the protagonist to summarize the suffering history of oppression and unfair treatment suffered by thousands of poor peasants in the old society. And use this to show the cruelty of the feudal cruel exploitation system. The literary and artistic works created during this special period have become China's intangible cultural heritage treasures.