The prototype of Cheng Dieyi in Farewell My Concubine is Mei Lanfang. Cheng Dieyi is one of the protagonists in Farewell My Concubine. The story describes that Cheng Dieyi was sold by her mother, who was a prostitute, to a Peking Opera class to learn to sing Tsing Yi, and she was confused about whether she was a man or a woman. Duan Xiaolou, a senior brother, has a very good relationship with him, and they became famous because of their co-production of Farewell My Concubine. Unexpectedly, Xiaolou married the prostitute Juxian first, and the brothers turned against each other during the Cultural Revolution, which made Cheng Dieyi feel lost in his lifelong artistic pursuit, and finally committed suicide on the stage when rehearsing the play with Xiaolou again.

Mei Lanfang's character details

Mei Lanfang was born in Beijing in the 20th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, and his ancestral home was Taizhou, Jiangsu. Master of Chinese Peking Opera Performing Arts. Mei Lanfang studied drama at the age of 8, worshipped Wu Lingxian as a teacher at the age of 9 and took the stage at the age of 10. Later, he asked Qin Zhifen and Hu Ergeng to learn from Hua Dan. 19 15 April to 19 16 September, newly rehearsed 1 1. Before 1949, he performed in Japan, the United States and the Soviet Union successively, and won honorary doctor of literature degrees from Pomona College and the University of Southern California.