Its singing mainly comes from local folk songs, minor tunes, fishing drums and Taoist music. Many vocals are permeated with folk songs, and some still retain their original forms. At the same time, it also absorbed some tones and qupai of Chu opera, Han opera and Han altar ditty, which enriched the singing of this drama. Its sound cavity has four main cavities, namely, high cavity, seven-water cavity, gong cavity, Siping cavity and more than 90 kinds of minor tunes. The lines of the play don't need to rhyme, and the local spoken language and two-part allegorical sayings are adopted. Has an active, lively and humorous artistic style.

Its performance form is developed on the basis of folk songs and dances and ground flower drums. Mianyang is low-lying and frequently flooded, so there is a folk song "Shahu Mianyang Prefecture, ten years and nine years". In the old society, people suffered from floods and had to leave their homes to make a living by knocking vegetables, patting fish drums, playing lotus flowers, playing lotuses and singing folk songs. These artistic forms have also been developed in the practice of artists, and gradually evolved into performance forms with costumes and simple stories, and most of them are short stories that celebrate congratulations or love life, such as Ten Plums and Fan Zhisi. This is what people called "flower drum along the door" and "flower drum on the ground" at that time. Later, artists borrowed from other operas and constantly enriched and improved them. They changed from singing to singing, from disguised as men to disguised as men, making their performances closer to life and art. For example, Cheng Lanting, a famous artist of the former Mianyang Huagu Opera Troupe, performed flower picking performances such as "Six Steps", "Eight Steps" and "Ten Gods", which vividly showed the gestures of seeing, smelling, listening, picking, stabbing, climbing, beating, releasing and tying. It has a strong flavor of life, pays attention to truth in shaping tasks, dares to break through, and does not stick to one pattern, which greatly enriches the expressive force of opera and shows the artistic characteristics of Mianyang ancient painting opera.

Shen Shan is also an outstanding representative of Jingzhou ancient painting and drama. His famous plays include The Temple of Kindness, Visiting Friends, Blue Bridge, Embroidering the Pocket, Picking Cabbage and so on. 1953, Shen Shan and Yang participated in the first folk art performance in New China with "Playing Lotus in Hunan", which reflected the poor life of Huagu artists and was received by central leaders such as Zhu De and others.

Its percussion music not only absorbs the classic gongs and drums of the brothers' dramas, but also has its own playing style and instruments, such as "grass cymbals", "chopping firewood", "walking hammer", "high notes, sad sounds, knocking gongs for gongs" and "three boards". In addition to drums, boards, gongs and cymbals, the use of horsemen can also set off the atmosphere and show strong local characteristics.