The reporter learned from the Guangdong Chao Theater that Zhang Changcheng, a famous Chao opera performance artist and inheritor of the provincial intangible cultural heritage, died peacefully at home at 10:45 a.m. on January 18, 2020, at the age of 88. Teacher Zhang Changcheng has been in the art for more than 70 years, shaping countless classic characters and works, and has the reputation of "living Qing official and beautiful grandfather"!
Let's review the artistic life of the old artist
Zhang Changcheng, a famous veteran in the field of Chao opera. Guangdong Chao Theater troupe of second-class actors, director of the art committee, Ying Xing Laosheng, member of the Chinese Dramatists Association, member of the Fifth and Sixth CPPCC Committee of Guangdong Province, representative inheritor of Guangdong Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Project (Chao Opera).
Zhang Changcheng was born in April 1933 to an ordinary peasant family in Shapi Village, Narita Town, Chaonan District. From 1944 to 1948, the teenager Zhang Changcheng was forced by life to sell himself to the then Old Bao Shunxiang, Zhongyi Zhixiang and Lao San Zhengshun as a child in the drama class. At the end of 1958, coinciding with the establishment of the Guangdong Chao Theater, Zhang Changcheng's old third Zhengshun opera class belonged to the four troupes of the Guangdong Chao Theater.
Soon after the establishment of the troupe, it successively rehearsed plays such as the Chao chao opera "Su Yue Lonely Boat" and "Noisy Kaifeng". Zhang Changcheng played the roles of Hong Chengzuo and Wang Zuo respectively. He attracted the attention of experts with his solid basic skills and skillful performance skills, and has since emerged on the stage of Chao opera. In 1960, Mr. Zhang Changcheng was transferred to the Youth Chao Opera Troupe as an actor. Under the attention of the troupe leaders and the cultivation of old artists, Mr. Zhang Changcheng has finally grown into a famous veteran in today's chao opera industry after years of hard work.
Over the past half century, Zhang Changcheng has created a series of positive characters with distinct personalities, such as Gai Jigang ("Telling Relatives husband") who is selfless in law enforcement, Wang Zuo, a clean official who is upright and upright ("Breaking Kaifeng"), Hai Rui ("Liu Mingzhu"), who asks for the people's life, Yang Zongbao ("Eight Treasures and Di Qing"), zhang Chongli, an old grandfather who obeys the etiquette law ("Zhang Chunlang Cuts His Hair"), and Chen Shiying ("Chen Taiye Chooses a Son-in-Law") who favors the government and loves talent. Among them, "Telling Relatives husband", "Noisy Kaifeng", "Liu Mingzhu" and "Zhang Chunlang Cutting Hair" have been filmed into Chao opera art films and distributed at home and abroad.
In the Chaoshan area, the name of Mr. Zhang Changcheng, the "old student of Chao opera", can be described as a household name, known to women and children. Every "old student image" he created has left an extremely deep impression on the vast number of Chao opera audiences.
Source: Tide Theatre Online