Kunsheng is actually the abbreviation of Gandan Kunsheng, which means that on the stage, women play male roles. As a Kunsheng, Meng Xiaodong is known as the "Winter Emperor". Meng Xiaodong is a famous actress. Her experience is legendary. She was married to Mei Lanfang and Du, and died in Taiwan Province in her later years.
Meng Xiaodong was born in a pear garden family, and his father and uncle were both Peking Opera actors, so Meng Xiaodong was also influenced by his parents and embarked on the road of pear garden. Meng Xiaodong started training at the age of nine and was able to perform alone at the age of twelve. Later, Meng Xiaodong performed many times in Beijing, Tianjin and other places, which became popular all over the country and was known as the "Winter Emperor".
Meng Xiaodong is an excellent disciple and one of the inheritors of Yu School. Meng Xiaodong's costume is so powerful that he can't even hear a little female voice when singing opera, which shows his profound skill. Xiaodong Meng's representative works include Catch and Release Cao Cao, Search and Save the Orphan, Hongyang Cave, etc.
Meng Xiaodong's character evaluation:
Meng Xiaodong is very talented, and women without female voices are rare above ten thousand people in Qian Qian. So to what extent she learns, she can play to what extent and be invincible. Try to figure out the plot, portray the characters, and be subtle and vivid, such as entering the realm. The elegance of appearance and the chic of figure are particularly redundant. (Commentary by Peking Opera critic Ding Bingyi)
Meng Xiaodong is an outstanding Peking Opera actor. It was second to none among the old female students in the thirties and forties. Especially in the inheritance of Laoyu School, it has a special and important position and can be said to be the most influential successor of Laoyu School. (Chai Wei Jun, Special Researcher, Institute of Traditional Chinese Opera, China Opera Academy)