咸丰二年(1852年)广东有名为“鸿福堂”(译音)的剧团,在美国旧金山演出《六国大封相》。粤剧,是全国最早到海外演出的地方剧种。1976年,以邝新华为首的粤剧领袖人物在广州市黄沙建立以行当分工的兆和堂、庆和堂、新和堂、福和堂、永和堂、德和堂、慎和堂、普和堂,统称《八和会馆》。邝新华是粤剧八和会馆最早的领头人。二十年代初,粤剧著名小生王白驹荣在粤剧《金生桃盒》中,首次以广州方言(白话)演唱,代替了沿袭的舞台官话(桂林官话)。 Xianfeng two years (1852) in Guangdong known as “Hong Futang” (transliteration) theater, performing in San Francisco, “the six seals.” Cantonese opera is the earliest local operas to perform overseas. In 1976, the leaders of Cantonese opera led by Kuang Xinhua set up the Khao Ho Tong, Khan Hoi Tong, San Hoi Tong, Fu Wo Tong, Wing Hoi Tong, Tak Hoi Tong, Shen He Tong, Pu He Hall, collectively referred to as “eight hall.” Kwong Hing Wah is the earliest leader of Cantonese Opera Hall 8. In the early 1920s, the famous Chinese comedy Wang Baiju Rong performed for the first time in Cantonese opera “Jinsheng Tao Box” in the Guangzhou dialect (vernacular) instead of the traditional Mandarin (Guilin Mandarin).