In 1994, her work "The Spirit of the Bird" won the Gold Medal for the Chinese National 20th Century Dance Classic in art. Yang Liping has loved dancing since she was a child. In 1979, she starred in "Peacock Dance" and won the first prize for performance in Yunnan Province. The following year, she became famous for her original "Peacock Dance", which brought nature to the world. Integrated with folk dance, it pushed folk dance into a craze. In 1986, she became famous with her solo dance "The Spirit of the Bird" and won the first prize in the second national dance competition.
In 1997, Yang Liping performed at the Osaka International Arts Festival in Japan and was awarded the highest art award by the Osaka International Exchange Center. At the same time, the National Folk Dance Association of the Philippines also awarded her a lifetime membership. Her dance has been praised at home and abroad, especially "Spirit of the Bird", which was featured in the closing ceremony of the 11th Asian Games in Beijing and is also the first in my country. A dance artist who went to Taiwan to perform dance.
Yang Liping’s dance has appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala seven times. In 2015, she also served as the director of song and dance programs on the Spring Festival Gala stage. Among the several Spring Festival Gala performances, my favorite was her pas de deux "Two Trees", the desolation of the lovers being unable to be together, and the last two people each having a tree growing from their graves, intertwined with each other, like It’s a great saying from ancient times, “I would like to be a winged bird in heaven, and a branch on earth.”
She is not only a dance artist in our country, but also the vice-president of the 10th China Dance Association, a national-level She is an actress and one of the members of the Expert Committee for the National Folk Dance Grade Examination. In 2004, she wrote, directed and performed the song and dance collection "Yunnan Image", which won the Montblanc International Arts Sponsorship Award. She also toured the world with her performance. This performance shocked the United States and made this day a special anniversary in Cincinnati.