Yang Chengwei was born in July 1953 in Nancheng Lane, Chengguan District, Lanzhou City, into a cadre family. His grandfather Yang Tongpu was the deputy director of the Gansu Provincial Bureau of Culture, the director of the Provincial Library, and a famous calligrapher. His father, Yang Shimei, is a famous Peking Opera performing artist in our province. Three generations of ancestors and grandchildren have made outstanding contributions to Gansu's cultural and artistic undertakings.
From 1959 to 1968, he studied in junior high school at Xidajie Primary School in Xining City, Qinghai Province and Hui Middle School in Lanzhou City; worked in the Zhaoyao production team of Liulin Commune, Qingshui County, Tianshui District; in 1969, in Lanzhou City Worked at the Ma Steel Factory in Qilihe District; from 1972 to June 2000, he served as an actor, actor captain, and deputy leader of the Gansu Provincial Opera Troupe; from July 2000 to present, he served as the leader of the Gansu Provincial Peking Opera Troupe and deputy secretary of the Party branch; 2004 He won the Silver Feitian Award for Outstanding Artistic Talents from the Gansu Provincial People's Government in 2006. Yang Chengwei has outstanding attainments in opera performance. He has performed in "Sister Jiang" (1977), "Female Singer" (1981), "The Other Shore" (1978), "The Marriage of Three Daughters" (1980), "Ma Wu" "Brother and Gadou Girl" (1984), "So Close to the End of the World" (1989), "Under the Yin Mountain" (1989), "Soul Xi• Soul Xi" (1991), "Red Snow" (1999) ) and more than 20 large-scale operas, including Ma Wuge, He Gao, Jones, Song Qiren, Lin Han and other major roles. Among them, the opera "So Close to the End" (1989) went to Beijing to participate in the Second China Art Festival and the 40th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China, and won the second prize in the Gansu Provincial Drama Performance; "Soul Xi• Soul Xi" Participated in a performance to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Party in Gansu Province. In 2000, after being transferred to the Gansu Provincial Peking Opera Troupe, he successively organized and performed the large-scale western Peking Opera "Starlight of the Western Regions" (2001), the large-scale Peking Opera martial arts drama "Yandang Mountain" (2004), the Peking Opera fairy tale "Wild Swan" (2005), The large-scale children's Peking Opera "The Feathered Letter" (2005), the large-scale Western Peking Opera "Flowers on the Silk Road" (2006), and successfully organized and held two "Large-scale Concerts of Chinese Peking Opera Masters" (2000, 2003). "Starlight from the Western Region" won the New Play Award at the "Third China Peking Opera Art Festival" in 2001; "Yandang Mountain" won the second prize for Outstanding Group at the "4th China Peking Opera Art Festival" in 2004. "The Wild Swan", rehearsed based on Andersen's fairy tales, went to the Kingdom of Denmark to participate in a performance commemorating the 200th anniversary of Andersen's birth in May 2005 at the invitation of the National Cultural Institute of Denmark; the children's Peking Opera "The Feathered Letter" won the "Fifth National Children's Drama Outstanding Award" in 2005 The third prize for outstanding plays in the "Repertoire Show" and the second prize of the 2006 Dunhuang Literary Award in Gansu Province; the Peking Opera "Flower Rain along the Silk Road" won the gold medal in the 2006 Gansu Drama Red Plum Award Competition and was selected for the 10th session held in Suzhou in December 2007. Chinese Theater Festival.
Yang Chengwei has a wide range of acting skills and has made many achievements in Huaer dramas, TV dramas and radio dramas. He has starred in Huaer dramas such as "A Sea of ??Flowers" (1987) and "The Peony Comes in the Moon" (1994), and participated in the reporting performance of "A Sea of ??Flowers" in Zhongnanhai, Beijing; "The Peony Comes in the Moon" (1994) Participated in the performance of the 4th China Art Festival. He starred in the TV series "Heart Spring" (1991), "Green Sun" (1991), and "Better Not to Break Up" (1997). In addition, Yang Chengwei also served as assistant director in the TV series "Banglang" (1988), "The Soul Returns to the Mother River" (1989), "Operation Black Shark" (1989), and "The Suspicious Case of Military Reunification" (1990). The sketch "The Meeting Time" won the third prize in the province's first TV sketch competition in November 1987; the radio drama "Yesterday's Song on the Sheepskin Raft" won the first prize in the northwest region's literary program in 1985.