to sell to the landlord Huang Shiren to repay his father's debt. After suffering humiliation and mistreatment from the landlord and the landlord's mother, Xier eventually escaped and hid in a mountain temple while surviving on offerings. Due to lack of sunlight and little salt intake, her skin and hair gradually turned white causing local villagers to mistakenly perceive her as a powerful white-haired goddess. In the end, Xier was found by Dachun and they reunited. Performer: Tian Hua (b. 1928, HeBei, China) Tian Hua is a well-known actress famous for her role of Xier. She received extensive learning from the Central Academy of Drama. She was nominated and received Hundred Flowers Awards, Golden Rooster Awards and Golden Phoenix Awards. Huang Shiren The landlord who forced Yang Bailao to sell Xier to repay debts. He abused and humiliated Xier and the other maids. After Xier escaped, he encountered white-haired Xier and recognized her as a reincarnation of a goddess who came to punish him for his mistreatment of Xier. Huang Shiren was eventually punished by the villagers. Performer: Chen Qiang (1918-2021, HeBei, China) Chen Qiang was a film and stage actor best known for his performances as antagonists in The Red Detachment of Women, The White Haired Girl and Devils on the Doorstep. His performance in The White Haired Girl gained the Special Recognition Award in 6th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Wang Dachun A farmer, a neighbor and fiancé of Xier. After Xier was taken away by the landlord, Dachun joined the Communists's Eighth Route Army and fought in the Anti-Japanese War. After his return from the war, he overthrew the landlord and distributed his farmland to peasants. In the end, he found Xier in the mountains and rejoined. Performer: Li BaiWan (1926-2010) Li BaiWan joined the Communists's Eighth Route Army at the age of 11. Plot (Based on the ballet version) It is the eve of the Chinese Spring Festival. The peasant girl Xi'er from a village in Yanggezhuang, Hebei province is waiting for her father Yang Bailao to return home to celebrate the Spring Festival together. Her father, a tenant peasant hired under the despotic and usurious landlord Huang Shiren (who makes a fortune as a loan shark exploiting peasants), has been force to run away from home to avoid the debt collectors. Xi'er's girl friends come to bring her paper cuttings with which they decorate the