Peking Opera art has been passed down for 200 years, with many famous artists and famous characters, many great masters of the Kaizong Sect, and many genres have been passed down for the fifth generation. It is precisely because these Peking Opera masters of the founding sect enriched the art of Peking Opera.
However, many masters of the founding sect in the field of Peking Opera appeared before the founding of the People's Republic of China, such as Tan Xinpei, Yang Xiaolou, Mei Lanfang, Gong Yunfu, Yu Shuyan, Cheng Yanqiu, Shang Xiaoyun, Ma Lianliang, Yan Jupeng, Jiang Miaoxiang, Jin Shaoshan, and so on.
Then after the founding of the Country, some people say that after the founding of the Country, there were only two Masters of Peking Opera, that is, Qiu Shengrong and Zhang Junqiu.
Master Zhang Junqiu integrated the characteristics of the four major schools and eventually founded the Peking Opera Danjiao Zhangpai Art, which is now flourishing in peking Opera Danjiao Zhangpai art.
Qiu Shengrong is a famous master of Peking Opera, the founder of the Pure Corner Qiu Sect, and now the Peking Opera Pure Horn is the only one of the Qiu Sect with the reputation of "Ten Pure Nine Qiu".
So are there only these two famous Peking opera masters who opened the sect after the founding of the People's Republic of China? I don't think so, at least there are these two.
First of all, there is the Danjiao famous artist Zhao Yanxia, and although the Danjiao Zhao Pai art of Zhao Yanxia's teacher is not much representative of the minority heirs, there are not many representative works, but the Peking Opera Zhao Pai art really exists. Therefore, the art of the Zhao School cannot be ignored.
The second is Master Yuan Shihai, and Master Yuan Shihai's pure horn Yuan Pai art exists even more, although Yuan Shihai originally studied Hao Pai's flower face art under Hao Shouchen, but it cannot be said that the Yuan Pai flower face he founded did not exist.
Therefore, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Peking Opera circle is not only the two masters Zhang Junqiu and Qiu Shengrong, but also the founding sect, but at least four.