Ancestry of the Famous Peking Opera Performer Mr. Mei Lanfang

Meilanfang (October 22, 1894-August 8, 1961) was born in Beijing in the twentieth year of the Guangxu reign (1894) to a Peking Opera family. She was born in 1894 in Beijing to a family of pear orchards. Mei Lanfang is a famous Peking Opera artist, a native of Beijing, with an ancestral home in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province. Mei Lanfang learned the art at the age of eight and appeared on stage at the age of eleven. Mei Lanfang is an outstanding modern Peking Opera actor, the first of the "Four Famous Dancers", and the founder of the "Mei School"; at the same time, he is also an internationally renowned master of the performing arts, and his performances have been regarded as one of the "world's three major performance systems". The performance is regarded as one of the "three major performance systems in the world".

In the eyes of Westerners, Mei Lanfang is synonymous with Peking Opera, and his representative plays include The Drunken Concubine and Farewell My Concubine; Kunqu Opera includes A Dream in the Garden and The Broken Bridge. His essays were compiled into Mei Lanfang Anthology, and his plays were compiled into Mei Lanfang Performance Scripts Anthology. In 1918, Mei Lanfang moved to Shanghai, where he was at the peak of his dramatic powers. Mei Lanfang was an outstanding modern Chinese Peking Opera performer, a world-renowned master of Chinese opera, and sang in his own unique artistic style, known as the "Mei School". Mei Lanfang interpreted the soul of Peking Opera, is the master of the nation, the shaper of the national essence, for the dissemination of traditional Chinese culture has made indelible contributions.