Yu Lizhen

Yu Lizhen

Yu Lizhen, a Cantonese, was born and raised in Nanyang in 1915. He devoted himself to Cantonese Opera since childhood and became famous at the age of 16. Yu Lizhen is known as "Dao Ma Dan" (a female actress who is good at performing martial arts). She has made friends with seven Cantonese Opera actresses, such as Deng Biyun, Luo Yanqing, fenghuangnv and Wu Junli, Jinlan, known as "eight peonies". Yu Lizhen ranked the longest, nicknamed "Purple peony". He left the art world in 1968 and immigrated to Canada. He died in 2004 at the age of 89.

Personal experience

Yu Lizhen, a famous Cantonese Opera actor, is known as a versatile writer and martial artist. It can be called "the king of Donggong" (the Cantonese film headless Donggong is starred by her). Her gifted "zhengzihou" is also adept at performing martial arts dramas. She is outstanding in the traditional heavy plays such as "putting on big buttons", "stepping on stilts" and "playing with water". She can also sing in full swing. She once sang for 40 minutes in the play "swallow house". She is also good at playing harmonic roles, which is amazing. Besides Cantonese opera, there were also many fashion and costume films in the 1950s and 1960s. He left the entertainment industry in the 1970s and moved to Canada in 1981.

In 1947, she began to make films and performed Cantonese Opera films such as "ten plays of Yan Song" (1952), "Emperor Guangxu's night sacrifice to the princess" (1952), "Mu Guiying in Shandong Zhajiao" (1959). However, Hong Kong people are most familiar with her ghost martial arts / Opera films. The first and second episodes (1957), the first and second episodes (1957), the first and second episodes (1957), the first and second episodes (1957), the first and second episodes (1957) and the second episodes (1960) of the first and second episodes (1957), the first and second episodes (1957) and the second episodes (1960) of the first and second episodes (1957), the second episodes (1957) and the second episodes (1960) of the first episode (1957), the first episode (1957) and the second episode (1960) of the second episode (1957).

Main works

1965

"Three battles of Nezha, red boy" (actor)

1962

Princess Pingyang beheaded for her son (actor)

1961

Jinfeng kills Jiaolong (actor), Shenshe Feihu saves Zhenggong (actor)

1960

The thirteen sisters of Zhajiao make trouble in Nengren Temple (actor), the prince of flying dragon cleaves the stone to save the Silver Princess (actor), the gorilla lady Pegasus cuts the magic dragon (the finale of the second episode) (actor), the nine words of seven sons and eight daughters (actor), the chaste woman cuts the lover (actor), the ten and three sisters of Zhajiao sell their heads in the Golden Palace (actor), the five blessings of Jinqilin (actor), and the princess flying head drops blood to save her husband (actor) "Flying head Princess thunder and lightning fighting flying dragon" (actor), "gorilla woman flying horse cutting magic dragon" (Part I) (actor), "fan Lihua in charge of sin" (actor), "Zhajiao fan Lihua" (actor)