Who is the originator of China's famous Peking Opera Lao Sheng?

The originator of China's Peking Opera Lao Sheng was Cheng Changgeng.

Cheng Changgeng (November 22, 1811 - January 24, 1880), known as Chun, Yushan, was a native of Qianshan City, Anhui Province. He was a master of the performing arts of Anhui Opera and Peking Opera in the Qing Dynasty.?

In the first generation of Peking Opera, together with Zhang Erkui of the Four Happiness Class and Yu Sansheng of the Chuntai Class, he was known as the "Three Masters of the Elderly" and the "Three Tripods of the Elderly", and Cheng was the head of the "Three Tripods". Cheng was the first of the "Three Tripods". Cheng Changgeng made important contributions to the formation of the art of Peking Opera, and was known as the "Leader of the Huiban Class", the "Ancestor of Peking Opera", and the "Father of Peking Opera", etc. He was also known as the "Leader of the Peking Opera Class".

Major works:

Cheng Changgeng's repertoire includes The Meeting of the Heroes, Foo Fu, The Battle of Fancheng, The Fish Intestine Sword, Lifting the Tripods and Viewing the Paintings, Letting Chengdu, Zhentanzhou, Catching and Discharging Cao, Beating the Drums and Cursing the Cao, The Meeting of the Winds and the Clouds, The Battle of the Taiping, The Temple of the Law, The Meeting of the Long Pavilions, and The Passage of the Wenzhaoguan, The Scholar's Spectrum", "Celebrating Tang Yu", "The Great Trial of the Hairpin", "The Eight Hammers", and "The Battle of Changsha".

The Meeting of Linjiang, Huarong Road, Anju Ping Wu Lu, Tianshui Pass, etc. The opera is a great success. In addition to the old man theater, flower face, the role of the line of small students, can also be skewered. The image of Guan Yu in Peking Opera also began with Cheng Changgeng. The main repertoire of the Four Happiness Class is "A Thousand Miles of Colt", "Plum and Jade", "Visiting Relatives", "Filial Piety", and so on.