Liu Jianyang, stage name eleven-year-old child, born in 1961, national first-class actor, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, the leader of Shao opera monkey opera, in December 2012, was recognized by the Ministry of Culture as the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage project (Shao opera).
Liu Jianyang loved the artistic image of Sun Wukong since childhood, and at the age of sixteen, he learned to perform Wukong opera under the teacher of Mr. Zhang Zongyi, a famous Monkey Opera performance artist of Shao opera, and since then embarked on the road of "Learning the Scriptures from the Western Heavens", successfully playing the image of Sun Wukong in "Sun Wukong Three Dozen White Bone Essences", "Sun Wukong Makes a Big Fuss", "Flame Mountain", "Qitian Dasheng", "Lingshan Mountain", "True and False Wukong" and other plays.
Under the careful guidance of Master Zhang Zongyi, Through his own tenacious efforts, Liu Jianyang's monkey play performance was praised by the audience. The Shao opera Wukong opera starring him has performed for Xi Jinping, Jiang Zemin and other party and state leaders, and has successively performed in Japan, Singapore, the United States, Germany, Italy and other countries and regions, which is deeply loved and praised by foreign audiences, laying a solid foundation for the Monkey Opera to go abroad.