Mingfeng, a servant girl in Ba Jin’s novel “Family,” is one of the most tragically touching female characters in the history of modern Chinese literature. In the opera of the same name, which premiered in 2013, she rose from a marginal supporting role to the absolute protagonist. This article analyzes the artistic portrayal of Mingfeng’s character in the opera “Mingfeng” from four dimensions: dramatic positioning, musical portrayal, stage presentation, and aesthetic value. Based on faithfulness to the spiritual core of the original work, through centralized reconstruction, multi-layered arias, ethnic musical language, and symbolic stage presentation, Mingfeng is portrayed as a three-dimensional image combining tragic beauty and awakening female consciousness. This achieves an artistic sublimation from a literary archetype to an operatic archetype, providing valuable inspiration for the creation of Chinese national operas by combining classic adaptation with local originality.