Zeng Jingping

Biography

Zeng Jingping is a prominent Chinese Liyuan opera actress, born in August 1963 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province. She is of Han ethnicity. In 1977, she enrolled at the Fujian Provincial Art School to study Liyuan opera, graduating in 1982 and continuing her artistic career ever since. She specializes in female roles (danci) and has attained the rank of First-Class Actress. She studied under renowned masters such as Yao Suqin, Shi Zhi, He Shumin, and others. She has served as the Director of the Fujian Liyuan Opera Experimental Troupe since 1999. She was a deputy to the 10th and 11th National People's Congress and was elected to the 13th National People's Congress in February 2018. She has been recognized as an inheritor of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage project for Liyuan opera since 2008. She is a member of the China Democratic League.