2021 has been an eventful year.
In the peking opera world, there are also many famous masters who have passed away.
Leaving an old gentleman means that many "plays" have also left us.
Sorry, good "stuff", all went with the old gentlemen.
1. Li Duokui's disciple and Li Pai's old Dan master- Li Mingyan
On August 11, 2021, Li Mingyan passed away at the age of 87.
Li Mingyan, born in 1934, is a national first-class actor. His frequent repertoire includes "Taijun Cichao", "Wang'er Lou", "Dragon Robe After Encounter", "Fishing for Golden Turtles", "Chisang Town" and so on. He has been taught by Xu Mingce, An Shuyuan, Tan Xiaopei, Guan Dayuan, Lei Xifu, Li Duokui, Li Jinquan, Wang Yumin, Shi Qingshan and other teachers, and is a high-talented student who graduated from the first batch of Chinese opera schools.
Peking Opera Lao Dan Li Mingyan
In 1953, after working for Lao Dan, he took Mr. Li Duokui as his teacher in 1958 and was deeply impressed by the true tradition. Elder Li, who is over eighty years old, still appears on stage many times and is deeply admired and loved by theater fans. She also co-starred with Shang Changrong, Meng Guanglu and other famous Peking opera artists in the Peking Opera "The World Returns to the Heart" directed by Zhang Yimou.
2. Huang Shaohua, a famous Peking Opera performance artist and a disciple of Mr. Xun Huisheng
Huang Shaohua died in Tianjin on July 25, 2021, at the age of 88.
Huang Shaohua (Xunpai Peking Opera Performance Artist)
Huang Shaohua was born in 1933 in a family of pear gardens, learned art at the age of 9, and led a tour of the country at the age of 16, emerging under the stage name "Little White Peony". After specializing in xun school performing arts, he studied the xun school vocal cavity art by Mr. Lang Furun, a famous Hu master of Jingjing, and in 1959, he studied under the master of Peking Opera, Mr. Xun Huisheng.
Xun Huisheng and his female disciple Huang Shaohua
Xun Huisheng personally taught him many plays such as "Red Lady", "Yutang Spring", "Xiangluo Belt" and so on. Huang Shaohua's basic skills are solid, the singing and spitting words are clear and sincere, the luck is soft, the soft is rigid, extremely infectious, and it is favored by the audience.
Third, Peking Opera Bai Pai Wusheng, Hongsheng founder Bai Yukun eldest daughter, the southern famous flower shirt Lu Huijun Gaozu, the famous Wusheng Wang Yunqiao famous Southern Danjiao performance artist - Bai Jingzhu
Bai Jingzhu passed away on July 11, 2021, at the age of 87.
Bai Jingzhu Peking Opera Danjiao performance artist
Bai Jingzhu is the eldest daughter of Bai Yukun, and also the person who sings and watches the old man acting with the old man among her children.
Bai Jingzhu was born in 1935 in Gongdanjiao.
He learned art at the age of 8, appeared on stage at the age of 12, and at the age of 13, he studied under Lu Huijun, and then performed all over the country with his father Bai Yukun. He is good at Qingyi and has both culture and martial arts, and has cooperated with Famous Peking Opera artists such as Tang Yunsheng and Shang Changchun.
Bai Jingzhu's husband Wang Yunqiao is also an excellent Peking Opera Master Wusheng, the heir of Bai Yukun's art, which is the portrait of many of Mr. Bai Yukun's Peking Opera works, and later served in the Shanghai Opera School for many years, cultivating many outstanding opera talents, the famous Peking Opera actors Wang Lijun and Lan Tian have been taught by him.
Fourth, get the true transmission of the "Wang Pai", "Dan xing is all incomprehensible, Wen Wu Kun chaos is not blocked" Peking Opera artist - Liu Xiurong
Liu Xiurong passed away on June 28, 2021, at the age of 86.
Liu Xiurong starred in "Mu Guiying vs Hongzhou (Peking Opera)" (Beiying 1963)
Liu Xiurong, born in Beijing in 1935, transferred to the first opera school in New China, the Xiqu Experimental School of the Xiqu Improvement Bureau of the Ministry of Culture, to continue her studies. During his time at the school, Liu Xiurong received the true transmission of Mr. Wang Yaoqing, the "Master of the Tongtian Sect" of Peking Opera Danxing, and became the most instructive and beloved disciple of Wang Lao in his later years, and was recognized as the most important and outstanding inheritor and promoter of the art of the Peking Opera Wang (Yaoqing) School since the 1950s.
Liu Xiurong absorbed the strengths of many people and turned to many teachers. Bai Shang Xiaoyun was a teacher, and at the same time, he was trained by Mei Lanfang, Xun Huisheng, Xiao Changhua and other predecessors. She is eclectic and all-round, Qingyi, Huadan, Huayi, and Daomadan, almost all branches of Peking Opera Danxing, which can be called Wenwu Kunchao.
Famous Peking Opera performance artist Liu Xiurong
Liu Xiurong's husband, Zhang Chunxiao, is also a famous Peking Opera actor. Li Shengsu, Yu Lan, Tang Hexiang, Xiong Mingxia, Ma Shuai, and Huang Hua were all descendants of Liu Xiurong's disciples.
V. Disciples of Li Shaochun and Li Wanchun, famous Peking Opera performance artists - Zhu Yuankun
On June 9, 2021, Zhu Yuankun passed away at the age of 83.
Peking Opera Sha Jiabang (excerpt) Mr. Zhu Yuankun
Zhu Yuankun, male, is an old actor in Peking Opera. Born in July 1938. Famous Peking Opera performance artist, national first-class actor. His representative works include "Lost Space", "Borrowing the East Wind", "Chasing Han Xin" and so on.
At the age of 11, he took Mr. Lu Xicai as his teacher, and in addition to the main attack on Wen and Wu Laosheng, Wen Laosheng, Wu Laosheng, Wu Ugly Drama, Monkey Opera, etc. were all involved. He has been acting on stage since he was 12 years old. At the age of 15, Zhu Yuankun, who was known as "Young Su Sheng", sang popular in the ancient city of Baoding with plays such as "Lost In the Air", "Borrowing the East Wind", and "Chasing Han Xin". In 1955, Zhu Yuankun again joined the Hebei Provincial Peking Opera Troupe. In the same year, Zhu Yuankun worshiped the famous Peking opera master Guan Sheng xi as a teacher. In 1959, Zhu Yuankun learned from Mr. Li Shaochun, a famous old artist, the famous drama "The Legend of Xiangma". The two plays "Legend of the Ringing Horse" and "Wild Boar Forest" made him extremely popular. Later, he took Li Wanchun as his teacher.
What is admirable is that Zhu Yuankun broke the view of the portal, was willing to be a ladder, and personally taught Yu Kuizhi the famous drama "The Legend of Xiangma" to Yu Kuizhi, making him an outstanding actor in the first national Peking Opera Star Competition in 1994. He also taught the unique skills of "Guan Zhen" to Zhang Junqiang, Zhang Qiusheng and others, so that there would be successors to the national essence of art.
6. Wang Xiaoju, a disciple, performing artist, and educator of the "Huadan King"
On May 27, 2021, Wang Xiaoju passed away in Yantai at the age of 80.
Mr. Yu Lianquan's disciple and the famous Peking Opera performance artist Wang Xiaoju
Wang Xiaoju was originally an actor in the Peking Opera House in Jilin Province, learned opera at the age of 9, and in 1959 studied Hua Dan and Dao Ma Dan opera with Mao Shilai, a famous Peking Opera performance artist, opera educator, former president of the Peking Opera House in Jilin Province, and one of the "Four Little Famous Dans". In 1961, he studied opera for three years under the tutelage of The Peking Opera master Xiao Cuihua (Yu Lianquan). As the inheritor of the famous Peking Opera "Xiao Sect", Wang Xiaoju has cultivated a group of outstanding disciples over the years.
Suo Mingfang and Liu Changyu and Wang Xiaoju are two mentors
Wang Xiaoju's husband, Sun Yongping, was also a famous scholar of the Peking Opera Ye (Sheng Lan) school.
7. Mei Lanfang's disciple, du Jinfang, a famous Peking Opera performance artist, is a landmark figure in the history of Peking Opera.
Du Jinfang died in Beijing on April 17, 2021, at the age of 89.
Du Jinfang (1932 – April 17, 2021) was a native of Beijing. Peking Opera actor, GongdanJiao, representative inheritor of the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects of Peking Opera.
Du Jinfang studied Qingyi with the famous Peking opera artist Lu Peifang at an early age, and since the age of 10, she has sung on stage, and has been taught by artists such as Chen Shiding and Liu Yufang. In 1945, he took Wang Yaoqing, the "Master of the Tongtian Sect", as his teacher, and was carefully taught by Wang Yaoqing, and learned from Wang Yaoqing's nephew and Mei Lanfang's violinist Wang Shaoqing, such as "Cosmic Front", "Phoenix Returns to the Nest", "Overlord Farewell", "Qi Shuanghui", "Golden Mountain Temple", "Noble Concubine Drunk" and other Meipai plays. At the end of 1949, he was recommended by Wang Yaoqing to worship Mei Lanfang as a teacher in Shanghai, and was carefully instructed by Mei Lanfang. He has also asked Xu Lanyuan, Zhou Changtai, Jiang Miaoxiang and other predecessors or violinists who have cooperated with Mei Lanfang.
Du Jinfang and Mei Lanfang took a group photo
His artistic style is both RongMei (Lan Fang) and Wang (Yaoqing) and has his own creation, which has both graceful and delicate beauty and strong and solid strength. Du Jinfang's appearance is handsome, and the typhoon is magnificent and dazzling; Her voice is wide, loud, beautiful, and generous; her singing voice is sweet, round and pure, clear and clear, and she is good at controlling breath, volume and rhythm and using the technique of combining true and false sounds. This makes her singing voice full of strong artistic appeal, her stage image is beautiful and elegant, good at portraying a variety of different characters, whether it is the ancient characters and even mythological figures of Zhu Yingtai ("Liu Yin"), Bai Suzhen ("White Snake"), Xie Yaohuan ("Xie Yaohuan"), Li Xiangjun ("Peach Blossom Fan"), or the modern characters Xi'er ("White Haired Girl"), XiaoBai Pigeon ("Lin Hai Snow Field"), Huang Ying ("Keshan Red Sun"), Wu Qinghua ("Red Lady Army"), can be vivid on the stage, Impressed the audience.
Personal disciples:
Huang Xiaoci: Jiangsu Provincial Peking Opera House, the 7th Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award;
Li Jingwen: Tianjin Peking Opera House, the 10th Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award;
Chen Shufang: National Peking Theatre, the 10th Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award;
Li Jie: Jiangsu Provincial Peking Opera House, the 18th Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award;
Li Guojing: Shanghai Peking Opera House, Best Performance Award of the 2001 National Young Peking Opera Actors Television Competition;
Ding Xiaojun: Beijing Opera Troupe, a comrade-in-arms of the Beijing Political Department, the first in the Qingyi Group of the 6th Youth And Beijing Competition Gold Award;
Dou Xiaoxuan: Beijing Peking Opera House, silver medal of the 6th Qingjing Competition, gold medal of the 7th Qingjing Competition
Du Jinfang's biggest "suspense" is her relationship with Mei Lanfang and Meng Xiaodong.
VIII. The famous Danjiao master of Peking Opera and a disciple of Zhang Junqiu - Wang Wanhua
Wang Wanhua passed away on April 11, 2021, at the age of 84.
Wang Wanhua
Wang Wanhua (1937 – April 11, 2021), was admitted to the Zhongnan Opera School at the age of 14. Studied under Jin Biyan, Liu Yuqin, etc., GongdanJiao. Later, he joined the Wuhan Peking Opera Troupe. He has been promoted and guided by Teachers such as Yun Yanxia, Gao Baisheng, Chen Hefeng, Gao Weilian, Jiang Hongkui, Wang Yurong, Yang Juping, Li Huifang, Chen Bohua and so on.
Wang Wanhua is also a Peking Opera educator with outstanding achievements, and has been hired as a teacher by Hubei Provincial Drama School, Shanghai Theater Academy, and Wuhan Art School, and in her teaching career of nearly 20 years, she has formed a set of effective teaching methods and concepts, and cultivated a large number of Peking Opera talents for the drama school.
In 1962, Wang Wanhua worshipped Zhang Junqiu as his master.
Zhang Pai's outstanding disciples Zhao Qun, Wan Xiaohui, Danjiao actors Liu Wei, Xiong Mingxia, Zhang Huifang, Liu Mingfang, Ye Zhen, Hu Shaoping, and Gui Yanjun were all personally taught and guided by Wang Wanhua.
IX. Peking Opera Xun School Performance Artist, Xun Huisheng Disciple, Orthography - Lu Zhenghong
Lu Zhenghong died in Shanghai on April 9, 2021, at the age of 86.
Lu Zhenghong - the famous Hua Dan
Lu Zhenghong is a Peking Opera Xunpai performing artist, a famous artist of Peking Opera in zhengzike, and a national first-class actor at the Shanghai Peking Opera House. Representative inheritor of Shanghai intangible cultural heritage project, famous Hua Dan. At the age of eight, he was admitted to the Then Shanghai Drama School to learn to sing Peking Opera. He studied art from Furong Cao, Wang Guiqiu, Guan Hongbin and other famous Peking opera teachers of the older generation. Later, he worshiped Xun Huisheng, one of the four famous Dans, as a teacher, and was able to pass on the true meaning of the Xun School of Art, becoming one of the main true disciples and performing artists of the Xun Sect hua dan.
10. Famous Peking Opera clown performance artist - Zhu Jinhua
Zhu Jinhua died on February 12, 2021, at the age of 86.
Famous Peking Opera performance artist Zhu Jinhua
Zhu Jinhua was born in 1935, he was born into a Peking Opera family, his father Zhu Binxian is a famous Peking Opera clown, and his father is on a par with Xiao Changhua, Ma Fulu and Ru Fuhui and is called the "Four Famous Uglies". Zhu Jinhua's uncle is Mr. Qiu Shengrong, a famous performer of Peking Opera. Zhu Jinhua and Mr. Mei Lanfang are also nephews and uncles, and their mother is Mei Lanfang's cousin.
Zhu Jinhua is the main worker of literary ugliness, and his clown roles are unique, especially good at acting in in-laws and Caidan plays.
Zhu Jinhua
In "Picking Jade Bracelet", the drag cavity of "pretending to buy a rooster where you wear needle leads" can drag more than ten plates and bring a body, and a "gift to relatives" is so happy that the cameraman can't hold the camera. The most skilled "Phoenix Returns to the Nest" cheng xueyan, family heirloom skills. When Mr. Mei Lanfang premiered "The Phoenix Returns to the Nest", it was Mr. Zhu Binxian's Cheng Xueyan.