"Missing Fog Up The House"

After the founding of New China, Hunan Kunqu Opera Troupe was established as a professional performing art group for rescuing, inheriting, reforming and developing the art of Hunan Kunqu Opera. In 1960, the CPC Chenzhou Provincial Committee established the Hunan Kunqu Opera Troupe in Chenzhou special area on the basis of the Jiahe Kunqu Opera Training Course, which was renamed Hunan Kunqu Opera Troupe in 1964. During the cultural revolution, the troupe was forced to dissolve and a small number of actors were included in the propaganda team of Mao Zedong thought. By 1972, Chenzhou took the lead in restoring the Hunan Kunqu Opera Troupe. In 2000, the Hunan Provincial People's government restored the original system of Hunan Kunqu Opera Troupe. In the same year, it was recognized as the famous Art Performing Group and one of the seven major Kunqu Opera Theater Troupes in China by the Foreign Cultural Liaison Bureau of the Ministry of Culture, and the National Cultural and Artistic Talents Exchange Center. The first leader is Liu Dianxuan, the current head is He Chuoxian and Party Secretary is Luo Yan.

Since the founding of the Communist Youth League, more than 60 plays have been sorted out and produced, with more than 200 parts. The troupe has traveled widely in large and medium-sized cities in China, and has participated in many major performances in Beijing, Hong Kong, Taiwan, London, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Turkmenistan and Northern Ireland, with strong response and good reputation at home and abroad. The newly adapted "The Romance of A Hairpin" won the first China (Suzhou) Kunqu Opera Art Festival and the Excellent Classical Drama Exhibition Excellent Performance Award, Hunan Drama "Tian Han Award", "Five One Projects" and "Selected Works Award" of Hunan Spiritual Civilization Construction, and the "Cao Yu Drama Award" and "Excellent Drama Award" of the Seventh China (Nanning) Drama Festival in 2001; the "Hunan Quack" won the third Chinese Kunqu Opera Art Festival "Repertoire Award" and the second Hunan Art Festival "Tian Han Award"; the "One-day Prefecture" was selected to perform for the central leaders in Zhongnanhai, and was filmed Kunqu Opera by the Central Studio of News Reels Production with the name of "The Mad Scholar"; the "Missing Fog Up The House" was awarded the national performance award of the Kunqu Opera. A number of traditional folk operas such as "Wusong Killing Sister-in-law", "Lu Zhishen Wrecks The Temple Gate", "Snatching The Stick", "Crazy Dream", "The Dream Interrupted", "Guessing", "Buried Jade", "Collecting Firewood", "Hidden Boat", etc. have been continuously developed to become the excellent art performance of Kunqu Opera.

Hunan Kunqu Opera Troupe is composed of outstanding young actors selected based on the training classes of Kunqu students in Jiahe in the 1950s,  entertainers enrolled in the 1960s and 1970s and young actors graduated from Hunan Art School in 1980, 1990 and 2003. The troupe has a neat lineup, sound artistic understanding and distinctive performance characteristics, with a group of old, middle-aged and young artists. Lei Ziwen, a middle-aged performer of Kunqu Opera, was praised as the "First Leg of Kunqu Opera in China, and Zhang Fuguang and Fu Yiping, young Kunqu Opera performers, won the "Plum Blossom Award" for Chinese drama and the "Promoting Kunqu Opera Art Award" for outstanding young and middle-aged performers of Kunqu Opera. 11 performers were awarded the Hibiscus Award for Hunan Drama, and 9 performers were awarded the Best Performance Award, Excellent Performance Award and Performance Award for the First National Kunqu Opera Youth Actor Exchange Performance respectively. The 53 performers who were sent by the troupe to Shanghai Academy of Drama and Opera came back from school in 2003 and have become the backbone of the troupe, in which Cao Zhiwei, Zhou Wei, Li Yuan and Fan Jiawei have been awarded the Gold and Silver Awards respectively for "Little Plum Blossom" in Chinese drama. Liu Yaoxian, Liu Na and Cao Zhiwei were awarded the Best Actor Award in "The Fourth Hunan Youth Opera Actor TV Grand Prix", in which Liu Yaoxian and Liu Na won the first and second prizes of the five "Top Performers" awards, attracting wide attention and praise from the theatrical circles. Cao Zhiwei and Liu Na won the "Top Ten Outstanding Rising Stars Award" in the performance of outstanding young actors in Kunqu Opera.