Zhang Shaorong is a national first-class actor and director of Beijing Quju Opera Troupe. 1978 graduated from the drama performance class of Beijing Art School. 1993 graduated from the director department of the Central Academy of Drama. His performances and directed works have won the Plum Blossom Award of Chinese Drama and the Wenhua Award of the Ministry of Culture for many times. Representative works of stage performances include Teahouse and Longxugou. Representative works of film and television performances include Happiness Only with You, What a Big Home, When My Mother-in-law Meets My Mother, Under the Zhengyang Gate and so on. The director's masterpiece is Smoke Pot.