On May 13, the host Cao Kefan updated the dynamics on the social platform and revealed the news of the death of Li Qihua, one of the five elders of the Peking Opera Chengpai, at the age of 93. He wrote in the caption: Teacher Li Qihua, a generation of Cheng school art masters, has pursued Cheng school art all his life, and has worked hard to spread the art of Cheng school, and has carefully taught performance experience to Zhang Huoding, Shi Yihong and other juniors. Pray that Teacher Rose hua will go all the way! Also look forward to Guan Dong Tian Brother's Day mourning!
In addition, Cao Kefan also posted photos of li qihua and his son Guan Dongtian in the past.
In fact, in September last year, Cao Kefan also paid a special visit to Li Qihua.
Because Li Qihua is a famous Peking Opera performance artist, active in the Peking Opera circle and old age, she is not well known to young audiences, but her story is still legendary.
Li Qihua began to study Peking Opera at the age of 9, and together with her sister Li Weihua, she worshiped Li jun as a teacher in Chengdu, and after 5 years, she ran around the dock with Li Weihua. When Li Qihua was 12 years old, she was deeply attracted to the performance of Mr. Zhao Rongchen, a Confucian of Peking Opera, and since then she has made up her mind to learn the Cheng School.
Later, his stepfather Li Zonglin asked Mr. Xu Biyun, who was comparable to the four famous dans, to teach Li Qihua in Shanghai, and when he was 16 years old, Li Qihua could perform on the same stage with Gu Zhengqiu and others.
It is worth mentioning that she has also received professors from Mr. Wu Fuqin, Mr. Xun Huisheng, and master Mei Lanfang. Under the guidance of so many masters, Li Qihua's professional level has improved rapidly, laying a solid foundation for future development.
As the saying goes, do a line of love and a line, and now li Qihua was born to eat this bowl of rice. Before Cheng Yanqiu had the rule of not passing on female disciples, but after seeing Li Qihua's play, he was deeply impressed by it, and when he decided: I like it very much, what I want to learn, as long as I can teach it. Later, some people recalled the incident of receiving disciples and could not help but lament that this was a legend.
Later, Li Qihua met Wang Wanhua (who was also a master of Peking Opera) who was in the Wuhan Peking Opera Troupe and had a very good relationship.
In terms of personal emotional life, Li Qihua has three husbands.
The first husband was Ding Cunkun, who had a well-to-do family, and Li Qiaohua left the stage for two years after marriage, and later wanted to come back to sing but was opposed by him, and then divorced. The second husband was Guan Zhengming, a famous Peking Opera performance artist who studied under the master Ma Lianliang, and the two had a son, Guan Dongtian.
Finally, there is the Kunqu Xiaosheng Taidou, the founder of the Peking Opera Yu School Xiaosheng Yu Zhenfei. Although the age difference between the two is 27 years, they respect each other as guests after marriage.
I remember that in 2011, at the event site to commemorate the 109th anniversary of Mr. Yu Zhenfei's birth, Li Qihua, as the wife of Mr. Yu Zhenfei, dragged her 83-year-old body to perform "Spring Dream" with Mr. Cai Zhengren, which made the audience fascinated and addicted. In May 2018, Ms. Li Qihua was rated as the representative inheritor of the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects.
In life, Li Qihua is a quiet and beautiful beauty with everyone's demeanor, although the outside world respects her as "everyone", but she calls herself a "Cheng fan". Even in her later years, Li Qianghua actively tutored students.
At this point, the five gentlemen of the second generation of Cheng all went to heaven and met with the cheng master they loved and loved.
Li Qihua's life was low-key, not to argue or grab, and to live a transcendent life. Old Li, all the way!