On March 11, Nandu reporters learned that Li Shaoxian, a performance artist who had been commenting on the opera, died of illness on March 10 at the age of 81. In the place where she worked and lived, critics in Anping County, Hebei Province, told reporters that Li Shaoxian was a famous artist of the older generation with outstanding artistic achievements, and he was simple and humble.
In 2019, she was invited to shine her voice with artists such as Xiao Peizhu, Xiao Yuelai, Wang Jinghua, Li Hongxia and other artists at Tsinghua University, and she was known as the only outstanding female primary school artist on the stage of drama criticism.
Li Shaoxian dressed up in his early years
Born in 1941, Li Shaoxian's ancestral home is Shen County (now Shenzhou City), Hebei Province, he left home to learn art at the age of thirteen or fourteen, entered the Anping County Critics Troupe at the age of 16, and gradually honed to become a young student.
Her high-pitched and heroic style and dashing performance are a perfect match for danjiao actor and famous drama performance artist Xiao Furong (formerly known as Dai Yuying). The plays that the two have co-performed include "Yang Jiajian", "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Qin Xianglian", "Yang Eight Sister Stealing Knives", "Zhang Yu Boiling the Sea", "Chaoyanggou", "Yang Sanjie's Complaint", "Flowers as Media", etc., which have created a series of vivid and vivid images on the stage, which are extremely popular.
Li Shaoxian once trained in many local opera troupes, cooperated with famous actors, and returned to the Anping County Opera Troupe in the 1970s and 1980s, and opened a drama school in addition to performance and management to pass on the drama to the younger generation.
The troupe was later disbanded for various reasons and no longer exists, and Li Shaoxian also lived a dull retirement life and did not appear in people's field of vision for a long time. Until October 2019, Tsinghua University held the "Don't Forget the Initial Heart - 2019 National Drama Critics Old Artists Public Welfare Concert", inviting Li Shaoxian to re-emerge from the mountain and sing excerpts from the commentary drama "Zhang Yu Boiling the Sea", she won a full house of color as soon as she opened her mouth, and was sighed by the audience at the time as "the voice of the golden stone". At the scene of the performance, the former stage couple Xiao Furong also came on stage to present flowers for her, and the scene was warm and touching.
In 2019, Li Shaoxian performed at Tsinghua University
In his later years, although Li Shaoxian fell ill, he was still in good spirits, with a straight waist, and devoted himself to the promotion and inheritance of the commentary. She once said: "I have loved drama all my life, and my biggest wish is to see more people love drama as much as we do, so that the opera culture can be passed on from generation to generation." ”
Source: Southern Metropolis Daily