李笑非

简介

Li Xiaofei was born in September 1925 in Chengdu, Sichuan, with the original name Li Ransong. He began learning opera at the age of nine, studying under the renowned performer Wan Binwu and later under Chen Danran. In 1945, he joined the school of the famous comedian Chen Quanbo, specializing in comic roles in Sichuan opera. He served as an actor in the Chengdu Sichuan Opera Troupe, which became the Chengdu Sichuan Opera Theater in 1959. He graduated in 1952 from the Chengdu branch of the Southwest Revolutionary University and completed studies in 1956 at the opera actor training course of the Chinese Opera Research Institute under the Ministry of Culture. In 1959, he helped establish the Youth Troupe of the Chengdu Sichuan Opera Theater and served as its first deputy director overseeing overall management. He was a prominent performer of comic roles in Sichuan opera, with representative works including Qiu Jiang, Tan Ji Er, Fu Nu Chuan, Zuo Wen Zhang, and Yi Zhi Xie, and directed works such as Tan Ji Er, Xiu Cai Wai Zhuan, Hong Yan, Zhi Qu Wei Hu Shan, and Du Juan Shan. He was recognized as an inheritor of a Sichuan provincial intangible cultural heritage project. In 2017, he published his book Cun Er Bu Lun, a specialized work on Chinese opera troupe management. He passed away on August 3, 2020 in Chengdu.