The play is based on the life of Tan Xinpei, with the ups and downs of the protagonist Meng Jinfu as the main line.At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, young Meng Jinfu rejected the career path arranged by his father and insisted on pursuing his dream of Peking Opera in the capital.

In the changes of the times and in the various trials of life, he used his life to make a life practice, that is, he always chose to stick to himself, pursue his old life dream with a pure attitude, and finally lived up to himself and became the leader of the collection.A great master who became a great man and set a precedent for future generations.

Tan Xinpei is the founder of the Tan School of Peking Opera and is praised by the king of actors.It revolutionized the art of Peking Opera, played a role in carrying forward the past and ushering in the future, and had an extremely profound impact on later generations. There is a saying in the industry that "there is no way to learn Tan".

He was born on the ninth day of March in the 27th year of Daoguang reign of the Qing Dynasty in Jiufu Village, Tanzuowan, Dadongmenwai, Jiangxia District, Wuhan City (formerly Wuchang County), and his native place was Huangpi, Hubei Province (now Huangpi District, Wuhan City).Mainly attacking Laosheng, he once played the role of Wusheng.Because of the hall's title of Yingxiu, people also called him Yingxiu.His father, Tan Zhidao, was a senior worker and a senior student, and Tan Xinpei was his only son.

At the age of 10, he went to Beijing with his father. At the age of 11, he entered Xiao Jinkui's class to learn martial arts and ugly, and later changed to a martial arts student and a civil and military veteran student.He graduated in 1863.At the age of 23, he joined the Sanqing troupe and mainly performed martial arts dramas such as Shenzhou Lei, Sanchakou, Baishuitan, and "Bada Na".He once played a stable boy in Qingshi Mountain next to Cheng Changgeng. He was appreciated by the "big boss" and was entrusted with the role of martial arts leader.In the painting - Tongguang Thirteen Jue - Tan Xinpei is the only martial arts actor.It was ten years after Guangxu that he became famous in the theater world as an old student.