Lian Liru
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1960 she entered the Beijing Xuanwu Recitation and Singing Troupe and studied under her father, Lian Kuoru.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Manchu, born in March 1942, a native of Beijing. She is a National First-Class Actor and an expert receiving the special government allowance of the State Council. In 1985 she was transferred to the China Coal Mine Art Troupe. Her performance style is grand, with clear diction and a weighty, resonant voice; her analysis of the reasoning and structure of a story is rigorous, and she draws on the means of Peking opera to portray characters, excelling especially in commentary and explanation. She devoted herself to recovering, collating, transmitting and developing the art, persisting year after year in telling stories live in storytelling houses and passing on many items of repertoire. Her representative works include Dong Han Yanyi (Romance of the Eastern Han), San Guo Yanyi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) and Kangxi Sifang (Kangxi's Incognito Visits). She collaborated with others in creating the long-form pingshu Ru Shang Tongrentang (The Confucian Merchant Tongrentang).
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Beijing Pingshu Storytelling, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 2013 she received the second Xinchuan Award for bearers of Chinese intangible cultural heritage, conferred by the Chinese National Academy of Arts (China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Centre). In 2014 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the eighth China Quyi Peony Awards, conferred by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Chinese Quyi Artists Association. In 2018 the Ministry of Culture and Tourism awarded her the honorary title of Advanced Individual in National Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection. The successors she trained include Jia Lin, Liang Yan, Wang Yuebo and Li Jing.
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