Liu Bing opera character painting exhibition opening ceremony scene Yang Dong photo
Xiangyang, February 12 (Xinhua) -- "Scale Stage - Liu Bing Opera Character Painting Exhibition" was launched in Xiangyang, Hubei Province on the 12th, and the exhibition will last until February 19.
More than 40 opera character paintings were exhibited on the spot, with vivid charm and pen and ink. Among them, "Three Gu Maolu", "The Source of the Three Kingdoms", "Kong Mingtu" and many others are related to the historical stories of Xiangyang, which also makes the people who watch the exhibition feel more cordial. At the scene of the event, Liu Bing also specially displayed the "Liu Bing Painting Drama - Kong Mingtu" created by him in cooperation with Chen Hongbin, the fifth generation of the old Hekou woodblock print.
Liu Bing, an opera actor born in Xiangyang, Hubei Province, is a disciple of Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang and a disciple of Yu opera master Ma Jinfeng. As a well-known inheritor of opera, he is known as "Meimen Mapai and Pear Garden Rookie".
Citizens watch Liu Bing's opera character painting exhibition photographed by Hu Chuanlin
In addition to successfully shaping the image of opera characters on stage, offstage, Liu Bing also loves Danqing, is good at painting opera ink characters, and has been selected for national painting exhibitions many times. In 2013, he founded the Beijing Lanfeng Opera Society, which cultivated a group of teenagers who loved the national culture.
"I wish to be a drop of water in the Han River, a brick in the city wall, a stone on Da Nang Mountain, no matter how big the stage I am, my heart will always be in the direction of Xiangyang." Liu Bing said that his hometown is his spiritual sustenance, and many warm stories of his childhood are melted into the wind of the Han River. The first exhibition of the "Scale Stage" was placed in Xiangyang, so as to report to the people of the hometown in the New Year of the Tiger and pay tribute to the people of the hometown. (End)