Li Bingxhu

Biography

Li Bingxhu is a Chinese Peking opera artist, born in 1942 in Anhui Province. She studied opera in local Anhui troupes during her teenage years. In 1959, she was selected to study at the Shanghai Opera School, where she trained under prominent masters such as Yan Huizhu and Zhang Junqiu, and also studied under Wei Lianfang. After graduating from the Shanghai Opera School, she worked with the Second Troupe of the Shanghai Peking Opera Company. During the Cultural Revolution, she participated in the production of "Ode to Longjiang," one of the model revolutionary works, where she played the lead role of Jiang Shuiying and starred in the color Peking opera film. She also starred in the color Peking opera film "The Legend of the White Snake" in the early period of reform and opening-up.