Liu Yilong, a famous Chinese Kunqu opera artist, passed away on December 13, 2023 at Shanghai Ruijin Hospital at the age of 83 due to ineffective medical treatment. Liu Yilong is the representative inheritor of Kunqu Opera, a national intangible cultural heritage
He is also a special allowance expert. He has become a "national treasure" artist with his outstanding performing arts, and has an extremely important position in the Kunqu opera industry. Liu Yilong is a generation of Kunqu opera celebrities
His performance style is very distinctive and loved by the audience. When he was young, Liu Yilong got the true inheritance of the master of Kunqu Opera, and became a famous ugly artist under the cultivation of the Shanghai Opera School, known as "Kuntan Qing Ugly".
He not only created many characters on the stage that were loved by the audience, but also cultivated a large number of outstanding harlequin actors, making positive contributions to the inheritance and development of Kunqu Opera.
Liu Yilong's death has made both the Kunqu opera industry and the audience feel deeply sad. Gu Haohao, the head of the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe and Kunqu Opera performance artist who was once his student, said that Liu Yilong is a strict teacher
But he treats his students very warmly, and he is meticulous about his art. Even in his 80s, he is still passionate about the arts, using his home as a classroom and continuing to lecture to younger students.
Liu Yilong's lifelong love and dedication to Kunqu Opera are admirable, and he has left an indelible mark on the Kunqu Opera industry. Liu Yilong's death is reluctant, and he has made great contributions to the development of Kunqu Opera
At the same time, it has also influenced many students and art lovers. His love and dedication to Kunqu Opera are worth pondering and Xi. His life is a selfless dedication to Kunqu Opera and a love for art.
While remembering Liu Yilong, we should also pay more attention to the inheritance and protection of intangible cultural heritage, so that more excellent traditional arts can be inherited and bloom with more brilliant brilliance.
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