The famous Cantonese opera performance artist Bai Chaoxi has passed the art of more than 80 years and performed hundreds of Cantonese drama.

Yangcheng Evening News Reporter Huang Zhouhui reported: The Cantonese opera world lost a treasure. The reporter from Yangcheng Evening News learned from the Guangdong Cantonese Theater that Mr. Bai Chaohong, a well -known Cantonese opera performance artist, former Guangdong Cantonese Theater actor, died at the age of 98 at the Zhongshan People's Hospital at 17:53 on September 13, 2022.

Mr. Bai Chaohong has dedicated his life to the art of Cantonese opera for more than 80 years. He has a wide range of dramas and both civil and military, and has shaped many classic artistic images that let the audience dump, leaving precious wealth for Cantonese opera art. Mr. Bai Chaohong has made outstanding contributions to the inheritance and development of Cantonese opera art. His death is a major loss in the Cantonese opera world.

Live a lifetime

Shape many stage images

Mr. Bai Chaohong (formerly known as Chen Yongxi) was born in 1925, native of Guichengzhou, Nanhai, Guangdong. For more than 80 years of art, he has performed hundreds of Cantonese drama. Mr. Bai Chaohong entered at the age of 16. Under the teachings of his father Jinshan, he laid a solid "boy skills". In 1937, his teacher changed his name from Bai Juorong, a master of Cantonese opera, and renamed Bai Chaohong.

In the early years, Mr. Bai Chaohong performed "Fish Intestine Sword", "Huang Feihu Anti -Five Pass" and "Wen Ji" and other plays in Shengshou, Zhou Fengnian, Dalong and Phoenix, Luo Jiaquan, Li Haiquan, and Fang Yanfen. From the 1950s, in the Yongguang Ming Cantonese Opera Troupe, the Sunsheng Cantonese Opera Troupe, the Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Troupe, the Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Troupe and the Guangdong Cantonese theater, they performed with Lu Yulang, Chu Yiyun, Lu Yunfei, Luo Pinchao, Lin Xiaqun, Liu Meiqing and other performances " "Chang'e Running Moon" "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", "Bao Lian Lantern", "Red Mansion Er You", "Jing Jing", "Tianmiao Fire", "Ding Golden Branch", "Luo Shen", "Wind and Snow Visit the Everbright". He has shaped many stage art images that have many different personalities and loved by the audience.

Live overseas

Adhere to promotion and spread Cantonese opera

In order to reunite with his loved ones, Mr. Bai Chaohong has been in foreign countries for a long time after retirement. He still takes promotion of traditional Chinese culture as his own responsibility, and has worked hard to promote and spread Cantonese opera culture overseas, let the "Southern Red Bean" fragrant overseas, and make greatness to enhance the influence of Cantonese opera overseas and overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese in Cantonese opera. s hard work. After returning to China in 2018, he still enthusiastically supported his younger generations and worked hard for the inheritance and development of Cantonese opera art.

On November 1, 2018, Bai Chaohong and Lin Xiaqun, 93 and 86, returned from abroad to Guangzhou to participate in the "60th Anniversary Conference of the Guangdong Cantonese Theater Construction Academy". At the Guangdong Cantonese theater, Bai Chaohong and Lin Xiaqun were interviewed by reporters from Yangcheng Evening News. At that time, although the two veterans were old, they were tough and mentally.

"I am in my 90s. I can participate in the 60th anniversary of our theater. I am really glorious and happy." Bai Chaohong told reporters that he worked at the Cantonese theater in his 20s. After retirement, he immigrated to the country in order to reunite with his loved ones. After learning that he immigrated to the United States, many audiences encouraged him to continue to inherit and promote Cantonese opera culture, so he continued to teach in San Francisco (San Francisco), "also brought the spirit of the Guangdong Cantonese Theater to the United States."

According to Bai Chaohong, foreign students come from different ages and different backgrounds. Some are Chinese children who do not know Chinese characters, and some are old Cantonese fans who are close to retirement and even retire. They have the same strong learning enthusiasm, practice hard, and contribute to money. From the basic foundation of these students, they have no professional foundation to the extent that they can perform on the same stage as Cantonese, Hong Kong and Macao, such as Ou Kaiming, which proves their efforts and also prove the prosperity of Cantonese opera overseas. Bai Chaohong said: "After returning to China, I was very pleased to see that the career of the Guangdong Cantonese theater and the generations of younger generations came out."

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