Untold story of Meng Guanglu: How did he become famous in Peking Opera?

Meng Guanglu is a Peking Opera performer and master role in Peking Opera that uses Qiu-shool face painted. This short documentary, produced by The Untold Story, tells the story of how Meng Guanglu, through his hard work, went from being a nobody to a renown master of Peking Opera. He carries on the wonder and brilliance of Peking Opera by using his talents and his amazing performances in the roles he acts.
There are four types of characters in Peking Opera, the male role, female role, painted- face role, and comic role. Meng Guanglu specializes in the painted-face role.
Meng Guanglu heard his neighbors performing Peking Opera for the first time near Haihe river in Tianjin. He quickly fell in love with this unique style of performance and became dedicated to learning the art. For three years, he traveled back and forth between Jinan city in Shandong province and Tianjin every week to learn how to perform Peking Opera.
Meng Guanglu has now performed in Peking Opera for over 50 years. His all-time favorite role to act is Bao Zheng, a role he performs at least one hundreds times each year. Even though he has performed thousands of times over the years, Meng remarks that he still gets nervous each time on stage.
Meng Guanglu insists on rehearsing many times with other actors before each performance. Even during break times between acts, he makes sure to touch up on his face paint. He always has his mind on creating the best performance possible. Being a professional Peking Opera actor, he holds the art in great respect and always puts his heart into each and every performance. He continues to practice movements and singing everyday, holding himself to the highest standard in performing, treating every performance as if his debut performance.

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*the man behind Ching Cheng Hanji its powerful and incredible skill*

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Well not really the man behind he didn't write the opera the opera goed way back

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Isn't it from the song dynasty

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Started with the "Ching Cheng Han Chi" meme. Now I'm truly fascinated by Chinese Opera.

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same xD and I think we are not the only ones who are in the same situation

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@@extra330LT indeed yall aint the only ones

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From laughing at a Tom and jerry meme over chinese rap to appreciating chinese opera.

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“A teacher is a mirror that talks.”
-Meng Guanglu
Wow, an educator myself, I really really like that quote.

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If you came this far from the meme congrats you now like Chinese opera

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Those that have made it this far with research. You have unlimited social credit score 😃👍

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true amen ching cheng hanji +1000 social credit points

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God bless this man! Chin Chen Hanji

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the deep art of this and how many years its been around is just amazing.

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amazing documentary, i saw the whole performance of qin xianglian aka the beheading of chem shimei and it was incredible.

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Amazing! Huge respect from philippines

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Here before this goes viral

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IMHO Master Meng Guang Lu should be introduced in his English nickname to oversea audience, which is Monroe (Meng Lu). yes, as from Marilyn Monroe.

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the legend!

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Any full english lyrics of Chisang town? Huhu

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3:00

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