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Li Yueqiu
Chengdu singer of Sichuan qingyin and founder of its Li school, who won a gold medal at the 1957 Moscow World Youth Festival with Xiao Fang Fengzheng.
Mural of the cultural record “Shidiao and Xiaoqu (Ditty Songs)”, which this person is tied to.
Also known as Called the Zhou Xuan of Chengdu
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Li Yueqiu was born in Chengdu, Sichuan, in 1925. Apprenticed at seven to the qingyin singer Pu Guangming, she finished her training at twelve and sang in Chengdu teahouses and taverns, where her clear, sweet voice and sparkling 'haha' ornament made her style her own; by the 1940s she was called the 'Zhou Xuan of Chengdu'. In 1953 she helped found the Chengdu quyi troupe and became its leader, and in 1957 she won a gold medal for singing at the sixth World Youth Festival in Moscow with Xiao Fang Fengzheng and Yi Wo Lang. Her repertoire included Duanqiao, Qiujiang and Bugu Niao'er Gugu Jiao. Her Li school of qingyin passed to pupils such as Cheng Yongling and Shen Guirong. She died in 1996.
Life and times
Dates 1925 CE–1996 CE