Mei Lanfang plays a connecting role in the history of Chinese Peking Opera. He is not only unique in art, but also famous for his character. Mei Lanfang has also made great contributions to the cultural exchanges between the East and the West, and is a pioneer in China's dissemination of Peking Opera overseas.
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At home and abroad, Mr. Mei Lanfang is regarded as the greatest actor, and the China opera performance art represented by him is regarded as one of the three major drama performance systems in the world today. Mei Lanfang has created many beautiful women's artistic images and accumulated a large number of excellent plays in her stage career for more than 50 years, pushing the performing arts of Beijing Opera to a higher level.
Master Mei Lanfang was forced to leave his beloved stage because he didn't want to be used by the Japanese during the Anti-Japanese War and didn't want to sing for them. He can only paint to express his feelings and subsidize his family. However, the Japanese sent plainclothes policemen to make trouble, and each painting was affixed with the words "President Wang's Order", "Vice President Zhou's Order" and "Chief Executive's Order", and some of them even said that they would be sent to Tokyo for exhibition, so the master destroyed all the works with a paper cutter.