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Liu Meicun
Lu opera playwright and director from Jiyang, Shandong, a founder of the Shandong Lu Opera Troupe, who co-adapted Li Ersao Remarries in 1954.
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 Liu Jiakui
Liu Meicun, born Liu Jiakui in Jiyang, Shandong, in 1914, was a playwright and director of Lu opera and one of the main founders of the Shandong Lu Opera Troupe, which he later headed. In 1954 he and Liu Qiying and others adapted Wang Anyou's novella Li Ersao Remarries for the stage; the troupe premiered it that year, it won a first prize for scripts at the East China opera festival, and in 1957 it was filmed as an opera film. He also wrote and directed Mu Guiying among other plays and coached performers such as Li Daijiang. He died of illness in Jinan in 1977.
Life and times
Dates 1914–1977