Zhu Lihua
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han ethnicity, born in July 1945 in Zhenhai County, Zhejiang Province. A Class-One Actor. From the age of four she studied under the celebrated qinshu artists Shang Yexing and Guan Yunxia, a married couple, learning such pieces as Water Floods Jinshan Temple, The Virtuous Sister-in-Law and The Old and the Young Exchange. She later created and sang more than twenty works, including Swallow in the Clouds, Well Managed and Sawing the Porcelain Basin, and staged the full-length epic Hu Yanqing Challenges the Arena, for which she also designed the vocal music. Her singing is powerful and resonant, her diction clear, her vocal line graceful and her feeling sincere; her stage manner is generous and her characters are brought vividly to life.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Shandong Qinshu balladry, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. For more than thirty years she has devoted herself to performing and organizing Shandong qinshu and to training successors; she has performed in more than twenty provinces and cities and has appeared in numerous national events, winning awards.
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