Cantonese opera performance artist, the founder of Cantonese opera red school performance art, Kaiping, Guangdong Province, has been an artist for more than 60 years, performing nearly 100 Cantonese operas and shooting more than 90 films, successfully shaping the artistic image of various women at home and abroad. She is brave in artistic innovation. On the basis of inheriting the tradition of Cantonese opera, she absorbed and drew lessons from Beijing Opera, Kunqu Opera, drama, traditional opera, movies and western singing, and created a unique red tone. The representative works "Ode to Litchi", "Ode to the Pearl River" and "Zhaojun's Exit" are regarded as the classics of Cantonese opera singing. It was once praised as "Southern Red Bean" by Premier Zhou Enlai. In 2009, 65438+1October 1 1 won the first China Drama Lifetime Achievement Award.