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Yang Liping was born in a Bai family in Dali, her father, Yang Yinbao, and her mother, Yang Xianguo, were both Bai. But when she was very young, her parents divorced, and because she was the oldest in the family, with three younger siblings below her, the responsibility of taking care of them naturally fell on Yang Liping's shoulders.
She grew up with a passion for dance and did not enter any dance school. With her talent, she entered the Xishuangbanna State Song and Dance Troupe from her village in 1971.
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In 1979, a large-scale folk dance drama, "Princess Peacock," starring Yang Liping, won the first prize for performance in Yunnan Province in 1979.
Transferred to the Central Folk Dance Troupe in 1980. She was famous for her "Peacock Dance" and was the first dancer to organize a personal dance party in China.
In 1986, she created and performed the solo dance "The Spirit of the Sparrow", which became famous and won the first prize for creation and the first prize for performance in the Second National Dance Competition, and was honored as one of the top ten news figures by the Beijing Daily in 1988.
In 1989, the TV movie "Yang Liping's Dance Art" was released. Over the years she has visited many countries in the world for artistic exchanges, holding special dance evenings in the Philippines, Singapore, Russia, the United States, Canada, Japan and other countries and regions. She also wrote, directed and acted in the movie "Sun Bird", which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Montreal International Film Festival.
In 2003, Yang Liping retired from the Central Nationalities Song and Dance Troupe and went back to Yunnan to pick the actors and actresses, and in 2003, she became the Artistic Director and Chief Choreographer and starred in the large-scale original songs and dances "Reflections of Yunnan", which was successfully held in Kunming.
In 2004, the large-scale original song and dance collection "Reflections of Yunnan" was honored with the Fourth Chinese Dance "Lotus Award" Dance Poetry Gold Medal, the Best Actress Award, the Best Choreographer Award, the Best Costume Design Award and the Outstanding Performance Award.