"Sadness"is the emotional main line and aesthetic characteristics of Gezi opera,which originated in Minnan,formed and developed in Taiwan,and then became popular in Minnan cultural circle.From the perspective of music culturology,this paper studies that as a social and cultural phenomenon,the generation of the"tragic"aesthetic characteristics of Minnan Gezi Opera forms a symbiotic relationship with its cultural and historical environment,and is closely related to the factors such as the preference for tragic content in the script and the use of"crying"as the song in the music.At the same time,it is also the externalization of the psychological consciousness characteristics of the people in Minnan who regard sorrow as beauty.