Fan Ruijuan

Ten Yue Opera performers, dubbed "Ten Sisters", in 1947. Front row (L-R): Xu Tianhong, Fu Quanxiang, Yuan Xuefen, Zhu Shuizhao, Fan Ruijuan, and Wu Xiaolou. Back row (L-R): Zhang Guifeng, Xiao Dangui, Xu Yulan, and Yin Guifang.

Fan Ruijuan (; 1924–2017) was a prominent Chinese opera singer. She was one of the stars of the Yue Opera which features actresses in male roles. She is remembered in particular for her many performances of Liang Shanbo in The Sad Story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, an opera based on the folk tale Butterfly Lovers, which she also played in the United States in 1989. In 1990, she toured widely in Europe. During a stage career lasting 50 years, she played over a hundred different roles, last performing in 1993 in a television series. She held various high-level official appointments including director of the Chinese Dramatists Association.

Biography Born on 6 January 1924 in Huangze, Sheng Country in central Zhejiang, Fu Ruijan began studying opera under Huang Bingwen at the Longfeng Stage School from the spring of 1935.