Lihongxia
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1965 she became a disciple of the celebrated Pingju performing artist Xin Fengxia and was an initiated disciple of the Xin school; in 1970 she was transferred to the Shijiazhuang Pingju Troupe as its leading performer, specializing in qingyi and huadan and also taking laodan roles.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, of Mongolian ethnicity, born in May 1940 in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province. She is a National First-Grade Actor. Born into a family of opera performers, she studied Peking Opera with her father from the age of seven, and at eleven became a disciple of the veteran artist Zhao Xiaoliang to study Pingju. In 1952 she was admitted to the Beijing Rongguan Pingju Troupe, where she studied and began to perform on stage, and in 1954 she was selected for the Pingju Troupe of the Xinjiang Military Region as a leading performer. Her singing is rich in flavour, her diction clear, her voice bright and her emotion sincere. Her representative works include The Embroidered Shoes (Xiu Xie Ji), Peacocks Fly Southeast (Kongque Dong Nan Fei), The Peerless Tale (Wu Shuang Zhuan), A Case within a Case (An Zhong An), Double Gifts (Shuang Song Li), Three Judgements of the Butterfly Dream (San Kan Hudie Meng), The Qiankun Belt (Qian Kun Dai) and Liu Qiao'er.
Honors & Recognition
She was a national representative bearer of Pingju Opera, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1995 she received the Peony Award at the national xiqu performance for middle-aged and elderly artists.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Pingju Opera Ⅳ-51
- Pingju Opera Ⅳ-51
- Pingju Opera Ⅳ-51
- Pingju Opera Ⅳ-51
- Pingju Opera Ⅳ-51
- Pingju Opera Ⅳ-51
- Pingju Opera Ⅳ-51
- Pingju Opera Ⅳ-51
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