Lei Ziwen, male, Han nationality, born in July 1943, a member of the Communist Party of China, was admitted to the Kunqu Opera Actor Training Course of Jiahe County in 1957. He was transferred to the Hunan Kunqu Opera Troupe of Chenzhou Special District in 1960，a former head and Party Branch Secretary of the troupe. He has been engaged in Kunqu Opera for more than 40 years and is the third batch of "National Intangible Cultural Heritage Project Inheritors" in Hunan Province.

He was elected as an outstanding middle-aged actor in Chenzhou in 1983 and an outstanding middle-aged actor in Hunan Province in 1986, was appointed as a member of the Award Committee of the Organizing Committee of the National Kunqu Opera in 1994 and a member of the Ministry of Culture for the revitalization of Kunqu Opera Steering Committee in 1995, and was elected as Executive Director of China Kunqu Opera Research Association in the same year.

He was also appointed as a member of the Organizing Committee of the National Kunqu Opera New Program Performance Observation Committee in 1996 and a member of the National Kunqu Opera Tang Xianzu Grand Prix Committee in 1997, a first-class actor in 1997.

Since being engaged in Kunqu Opera in 1957, he has studied and performed more than 100 large and small plays, and is one of the main actors of the troupe.In 1961, at the invitation of Comrade Tian Han, Chairman of the Chinese Theatre Association, he went to Beijing to perform the play "Lu Zhishen Wrecks The Temple Gate" for the Central Committee and experts and scholars.

His masterpiece, "Lu Zhishen Wrecks The Temple Gate", has represented Hunan Kunqu Opera Troupe to Beijing, Shanghai and other places to participate in important exchange performances. He was highly praised by leaders, experts, scholars, and and colleagues with a certain reputation at home. People's Daily, Wenhui Daily, Liberation Sundress, Hong Kong New Evening News, and other newspapers and periodicals have published comments and photographs.

The first International Forum on the Art of Chinese Opera, held in Beijing in 1987, invited him to preform for experts and scholars at home and abroad, receiving high praise. CCTV, Shanghai TV and Zhejiang TV have broadcast videos many times. In 1995, the CCTV's "Kyushu Theatre" column crew came to shoot his special broadcast (Kyushu Theatre 36). In 1996, a book on the art of Chinese Kunqu Opera published pictures and articles introducing him.The Encyclopedia of Chinese Opera (opera, opera volume) also listed him as an outstanding Kunqu Opera actor after the founding of New China.

He participated in the Kunqu Opera training course held in Suzhou and Beijing. He also studied and rehearsed some traditional Kunqu Opera plays. In 1995, he performed for the Chinese Folk Customs Foundation of Taiwan and filmed the play "Lu Zhishen Wrecks The Temple Gate". In 1996, his team participated in the 1996 National Kunqu Opera Opera Performance with a new historical play "Missing Fog Up The House", and won the performance award from the General Culture Council. He acted as Jia Yi in the play.

Since his retirement, he has been sparing no effort to cooperate with the work of the troupe and has served as the principal actor in the great dramas, such as "The Purple Hairpin" and "Hunan Quack". He has imparted all his plays to the young actors to cultivate a large number of new generation actors.