The large-scale costume Cantonese opera "Double Embroidery" is produced by the Propaganda Department of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Guangzhou Municipal Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau.

It is the key creative play of Guangzhou Cantonese Theater in 2023. It is also listed as a "high-quality literary and artistic creation" for the development of Guangzhou's cultural and tourism industry in 2023. "Repertoire. Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Group's famous directors and the creative team of Mingchuang have gathered the strength of the entire theater to create and arrange a drama that highlights the blood of Lingnan culture embodied in Guangzhou embroidery as an excellent folk craft in the Lingnan region.
 
The Cantonese opera "Double Embroidery" is a drama with Cantonese embroidery as its theme.
Guangzhou embroidery, one of the national intangible cultural heritages, is the general name for folk embroidery craftsmanship in the Pearl River Delta centered on Guangzhou. It has a history of more than 1,000 years. This eternal skill embodies Lingnan culture and the craftsmanship spirit of the Lingnan people.
 
In "Du Yang Zabian" by Su Jia of the Tang Dynasty, there is a record that Lu Meiniang, a girl from South China Sea, was "extremely skilled in craftsmanship and could embroider seven volumes of the Lotus Sutra on ruler-sized silk." Lu Meiniang was also regarded as the ancestor of Guangzhou embroidery.
 
The play is based on the real character Lu Meiniang. Through her legendary story, the legendary story of Guangxiu is brought to the stage. It is worth mentioning that traditional Cantonese opera costumes are based on "Cantonese embroidery" and have a long history. It is precisely because of the craftsmanship of Cantonese embroidery that Cantonese opera costumes have a unique style. Cantonese embroidery has been on the stage of Cantonese opera for a long time, but this is the first time that the legend of Cantonese embroidery has been put on the stage of Cantonese opera. Cantonese opera, a world intangible cultural heritage, and Cantonese embroidery, a national intangible cultural heritage, are both excellent representatives of the continuity of Chinese culture. The two are combined in the play to complement each other. On the one hand, it shows the beauty and charm of the two major intangible cultural heritage arts; Conducive to the rescue, protection and inheritance of cultural heritage.
 
In addition to Lu Meiniang, Tang Xianzong Li Chun and Zhuo Yingying in the play are also real figures in history. Therefore, the play promotes Guangzhou embroidery through the exquisite embroidery skills of the embroiderers, and also depicts the real life of the Tang Dynasty court, focusing on portraying the Tang Dynasty. The emotional state and living conditions of the people in the palace show their innocent, simple, persistent, free and easy view of love.
 
The plot synopsis of the Cantonese opera "Double Embroidery": In the workshop of the Tang Dynasty, there was a South China Sea embroidery girl named Lu Meiniang. In the tenth year of Yuanhe, Huaixi rebelled, and the imperial court sent troops to conquer it. Mei Niang, together with her friend Zhuo Yingying and the maids, sewed cold clothes for the soldiers. Zhuo Yingying turned her spring sorrow into a love poem and embroidered it into her cold clothes. Meiniang was ordered to embroider a geographical map of Huaixi for submission. When the emperor saw it, he was greatly rewarded and came to visit him incognito. Mei Niang has a tough personality and a broad mind, and the emperor has a secret affection for her...
 
During the parade, young general Du Yuan found a love poem in the cold clothes he was assigned. He did not dare to hide it and played it truthfully. The officials suggested that the embroidered poetess should be betrothed to Du Yuan. The emperor misunderstood that the embroidered poetess was the hand of Lu Meiniang, so he hesitated again and again, but finally refused to marry her to the beauty of an adult! Zhuo Yingying was very depressed when her marriage failed. Lu Meiniang advised her to wait patiently. When Master Wang returned from victory, there would be a turn for the better. Later, when Huaixi was in chaos, Du Yuan returned to the court and accompanied him to Fuguan Temple to pray for blessings. With the help of Lu Meiniang, Zhuo Yingying and Du Yuan met, and the lovers finally got married. Only then did Lu Meiniang know that the young man with whom she had been chatting and speculating for a long time was the emperor himself! The emperor wanted to make Mei Niang a concubine, but Mei Niang did not want to live in the palace forever and asked to be released to the South China Sea. This eventually led to the development of Guang embroidery and was regarded as the ancestor of Guang embroidery industry.