Li Tao, Owner of Furong Pavilion [1]
In the 1980s and 1990s, he was engaged in transnational trade in government departments, and successively served as trade representatives in Russia, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates. In the early 1990s, he dabbled in collecting Chinese classical furniture in Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and dabbled in famous paintings and jadeite stones. Now, he has collected more than a thousand treasures, and founded the Furong Museum in Jinan-Taiheju Ancient Art Collection Museum, becoming a leading figure in Qilu collection.
Li Tao is also an artist who is keen on inheriting China's intangible cultural heritage. In the new century, he raised a huge sum of money to establish the Furong Pavilion, the Quyi Stage of the air quadrangle, to revitalize Qushan Art Sea, promote Quyi culture and develop performing arts, so that China traditional culture and arts such as crosstalk, Allegro and Allegro can be spread and promoted through the Furong Pavilion Stage.
Wei Wenhua, Sun, Tong Shouben, Qi, Gao Feng, Xiao Guoguang, Luo Guangxing, Jasmine Zhang, Daxin, Sun Chenggang and Zhou Xu all came to the Furong Pavilion to perform.
201010 formally worshipped Mr. Jin Wensheng, the master of China Quyi, as a teacher, and worked with Degang Guo.
Li Tao and crosstalk master Zhao Jinsheng discuss crosstalk creation [2].
Yu Qian, Jing Li, Gao Feng, Liang Hongda, Luo Guangxing, Hua Qing and Liu Peng (wannabe) became classmates.
Li Tao also founded Jinan Furong Pavilion Taoist Health Food Garden, Shangpin Furong Pavilion Mingyuan Garden and Furong Pavilion Fitness Plaza. And was praised by people inside and outside the industry as "the head of Furong Pavilion". Li Tao is currently a member of Shandong Quyi Artists Association, a director of Jinan Quyi Artists Association, and a director of the Folk Culture Performing Arts Committee of Jinan Social Society.