Wu Liping
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in February 1960, a native of Liangcheng County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. A National First-Class Actor and an expert receiving the special government allowance of the State Council. Born into a family of opera performers, he performs with humor, wit, and elegance, displaying consummate skill, and has won numerous performance awards. His major representative works include the Eastern Road errentai plays Zhai Huajiao (Picking Pepper), Mai You (Selling Oil), Xi Shang Xi (Joy upon Joy), and Guanggun Han yu Wailai Mei (The Bachelor and the Girl from Elsewhere), as well as the Western Road errentai play Zou Xikou (Heading Beyond the Pass). While inheriting tradition, he has had the courage to break new ground and innovate boldly, breathing the spirit of the times into the traditional errentai art and winning wide acclaim from audiences.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Errentai, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1997 he was named an artist of both virtue and talent by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and in 2002 he received the 19th China Drama Plum Blossom Award.
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