China has seen the death of a number of veteran artists at the beginning of 2023.
A commonality of these artists is that they all sang praises for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and helped it brainwash the Chinese people.
Li Yunqiu
Li Yunqiu, a Peking Opera performer, died on Jan. 3 at the age of 89.
Born in a family of opera actors and actresses, Li played female roles in Peking Opera. In 1964, she played the role of Han’s mother in the opera “Red Guards on Honghu Lake”.
“Red Guards on Honghu Lake” is a six-act opera created by the Hubei Experimental Opera Troupe in the 1950s, which portrays a false depiction of the CCP’s peasant army in Hubei and Hunan provinces in the 1930s. A song in the opera, “Honghu Waters, Wave upon Wave” borrowed the tune of the folk song, “Xianghe Ballad.” Since the tune itself is beautiful and catchy, the song is widely circulated and included in the “Red Songs” series by the CCP as propaganda for the Chinese people….