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Zhao Qing
Dancer, daughter of the film actor Zhao Dan, who created the role of the Third Holy Mother in the dance drama The Lotus Lantern.
Mural of the cultural record “Chinese Dance Drama”, which this person is tied to.
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Zhao Qing was born in Shanghai in November 1936, the daughter of the film actor Zhao Dan and Ye Luxi. A first-rank dancer of the national opera and dance-drama theatre in Beijing, she created the role of the Third Holy Mother in the dance drama The Lotus Lantern and also danced in The Small Sword Society, Ode to Eight Women, Butterfly Lovers and the dance Sword. She received the Plum Blossom Award in 1998, served as a vice-chair of the national dancers' association and later as its adviser. She died on 24 December 2022.
Life and times
Dates 1936 CE–2022 CE