Famous Peking Opera performers from the Mei School’s traditional repertoire perform the patriotic hymn of women and men.

As the last important work in the artistic life of Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang, "Mu Guiying Takes Command" contains the accumulation of his forty years of stage life. The image of the middle-aged Mu Guiying in the play is a combination of Tsing Yi and Dao Ma Dan. From calm, melancholy and demure to inspiring, heroic and condensed, his changes in thoughts and character development are shown with body movements and gong and drum routines, making him a classic of Mei School art. .
 
Synopsis
In the Northern Song Dynasty at the end of the 10th century AD, the famous border guard Yang Jiye and his eight sons made a lot of contributions in the battle to defend the border and stabilized the Song Dynasty. Therefore, the people have been praising them, and many touching stories about the Yang family generals have been circulated.
 
Mu Guiying, Yang Jiye's grandson's daughter-in-law, had made great contributions to the Song Dynasty, but was later coveted by a traitor. She and Taijun She resigned from the court and returned to their fields, spending twenty years in retirement.
 
In the year when the story took place, the Western Xia vassal king suddenly provoked a riot. No one in the Song Dynasty resisted, and wanted to use Mu Guiying to lead the expedition. Mu Guiying, who had suffered a lot, remembered the Song Dynasty's indifference to the Yang family and was unwilling to lead the expedition. . After the persuasion of her grandmother She Taijun, in order to safeguard the stability of the country and eliminate war disasters, she resolutely went to the battlefield with her husband Yang Zongbao and their children Yang Wenguang and Yang Jinhua.
         
Actors:
Mu Guiying…………Li Shengsu
Kou Zhun......Yu Kuizhi
Taijun She...... Guo Yaoyao
Yang Zongbao…………Ma Xiangfei
Wang Qiang…………Hu Bin
King of Song Dynasty......Han Fuchao
Yang Jinhua......Gao Cui
Yang Wenguang…………Dai Zhongyu
Wang Lun......Liu Kuikui
Yang Hong…………Wang Jue
Gatekeeper...... Wang Xuesong
Drummer: Zhao Qi
Piano Master: Wei Wei