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Lu Hongfei
Huangmei opera playwright and scholar from Wangjiang, Anhui, who adapted The Fairy Couple from Hu Yuting's oral version and wrote The Female Consort Prince.
In a study at night, a desk holds a brush pot, a porcelain vase with a plum branch, a lit red lantern, a folded fan and an unrolled blank scroll, with no one seated there, while through a round window the moon rises over a lake with a sailboat.
Also known as Lu Chen
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Lu Hongfei, who earlier wrote his name with different characters, was born in Wangjiang, Anhui, on 1 October 1923. He worked as a newspaper supplement editor, reporter and secondary-school teacher, began studying Huangmei opera in 1951, and early in 1954 joined the Anhui Huangmei Opera Troupe as its staff playwright. His adaptation of The Fairy Couple, made from the oral version of the veteran performer Hu Yuting, won a script award at the 1954 East China opera festival and was filmed the following year; his Female Consort Prince was filmed in 1959. Other plays include Chunxiang Disrupts the Lesson and The Story of Baoying, and he wrote a history of the origins of Huangmei opera. He died on 29 July 2007.
Life and times
Dates 1923–2007