On this day, 61 years ago, on April 21, 1964 (March 10, 1964, the famous Cantonese opera actor Ma Shizeng passed away. Ma Shizeng is like Ma Shizeng, a Cantonese opera actor who is good at acting as Chou Sheng. The word Boru. A native of Shunde, Guangdong Province, in 1917, he studied opera at the Taipingchun Theater in Guangzhou. Soon after, he was employed by the Qing Weixin Cantonese Opera Troupe in Singapore, and later transferred to the Pu Changchun Cantonese Opera Troupe to compile and perform new plays. He became his teacher by the famous Xiaowu Liang Yuanheng. Since then, he has been acting or making movies in Hong Kong, Macau, Guangzhou, America, Vietnam, Malaysia and other places. The Taiping Troupe led by him and the Jue Xiansheng Troupe led by Xue Juexian had been in artistic competition for 10 years, and everyone called them "Xue and Ma". During the Anti-Japanese War, he performed in Guangdong and Guangxi. After winning the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to Hong Kong. At the end of 1955, he returned to Guangzhou to join the Guangdong Cantonese Opera Troupe. He was elected as a representative of the People's Congress of Guangdong Province and a member of the National Committee of the China People's Political Consultative Conference. He successively served as vice chairman of the Guangdong Branch of the China Dramatists Association and president of the Guangdong Cantonese Opera Theater. Ma Shizeng was determined to reform Cantonese opera in his early years, paying attention to absorbing and applying the strengths of films and dramas, enriching the stage art of Cantonese opera, and performing many fashion dramas. He has a broad playing career. In addition to working ugly students, he is also good at playing Xiaosheng, Xiaowu, Hua Lian, Xu Sheng, etc. The performance is rich in movements, full of life, and has a clear rhythm. His original "Beggar's Throat" is half-sung and half-white, with clear strokes, and melodious from afar. Sometimes it is blended into dialects and common sayings, making it naturally lively and comical, becoming a well-known "horse tune". In his later years, he changed to play the role of an old student and sang desolate and vigorous. Representative plays include "Bitter Phoenix and Yingling Pity","Thief Prince","Search Academy","Guan Hanqing", etc. The "Ma School" art he created is quite influential at home and abroad. Ma Shi once played Guan Hanqing's Cantonese opera "Search Academy" in "Guan Hanqing"(Ma Shi once played Xie Bao, and the red-line girl played Cuilian)