Zou Lili
Lineage & School of Heritage
She studied under Yu Liuxi, a leading female role performer of Yiyang qiang, and Cao Yaochun, a supporting female role performer of Qingyang qiang.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han, born in June 1941 in Ning'an County, Heilongjiang Province. She holds the professional rank of national second-class director. At twelve she entered the Yiyang qiang performers' training class of the Jiangxi Provincial Ganju Opera Troupe and graduated at seventeen. She subsequently worked at the Jiangxi Provincial Experimental Troupe of Classical Opera, the Jiangxi Provincial Ganju Theatre, the Yiyang qiang Troupe of Yiyang County and the Jiangxi Provincial Academy of Arts. Her roles include Huan Hun Ji (The Return of the Soul), Zhen Zhu Ji (The Pearl), Song Yi Ku Cheng (Bringing Clothes to the Weeping Wall) and Fa Chang Sheng Ji (Birth Sacrifice at the Execution Ground) in Yiyang qiang, while her directing credits include Jing Chai Ji (The Thorn Hairpin), Nan Ke Ji (The Dream of Nanke) and Ji Bei Chu Zheng (Sacrifice at the Stele and Departure for War) in Yiyang qiang, and Song Fan Zhan E (Delivering Food and Beheading E) and Fang Pei (Releasing Pei) in Qingyang qiang. In 2013, as a teaching instructor, she revived and staged several excerpts of Jiangxi Mulian opera, among them Huo Zhuo Liu Shi (Capturing Lady Liu Alive), Hua You Shan (Slippery Oil Mountain), Tiao Jing Tiao Mu (Carrying the Scriptures and the Mother) and Bai Yuan Kai Lu (The White Ape Clears the Road).
Honors & Recognition
She is a representative bearer of Mulian Opera (Jiangxi Mulian Opera), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Mulian Opera Ⅳ-87
- Mulian Opera Ⅳ-87
- Mulian Opera Ⅳ-87
- Mulian Opera Ⅳ-87
- Mulian Opera Ⅳ-87
- Mulian Opera Ⅳ-87
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