Li Rongwei

02-0510Peking OperaTraditional OperaTianjinBatch 2 (2008)

Lineage & School of Heritage

At the age of twelve Li Rongwei joined Rong Chun She, the training school headed by Shang Xiaoyun, where he studied tongchui and jiazi hualian (painted-face) roles under Sun Shengwen, Song Futing, Shang Xiaoyun, Qiu Shengrong, Su Lianhan, Hou Xirui and others, and he later joined the Tianjin Peking Opera Troupe.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Hui ethnicity, born in 1926 in Beijing. National representative bearer of Peking Opera, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, a performing artist of Peking Opera and a first-grade actor. From 1987 to the present Li Rongwei has devoted himself to taking disciples, transmitting the art and giving demonstration performances. He specializes in tongchui hualian roles; his singing possesses the spiritual resonance of the tongchui style while his movements show the accomplished technique of jiazi hualian, forming a distinctive performing style. His representative works include Wild Boar Forest, Farewell My Concubine and The Angry Tide of the Miluo River.

Honors & Recognition

In 2010 he was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honour in Chinese Peking Opera circles.

References & Archival Sources

Li Rongwei · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Peking Opera
Item code: Ⅳ-28
Category: Traditional Opera
Region: Tianjin
Born: 1926.12
Batch: Batch 2 (2008)

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