On the morning of October 30th, mr. Zhang Junqiang, a famous Peking Opera performance artist and a descendant of the Xi Sect, received his apprenticeship and Ma Liang, an outstanding young actor of Jinan Peking Opera House, was held in Jinan Impression Spring City.
Zhang Junqiang, the third generation of outstanding heirs of Xi Pai, is currently the president of Chongqing Peking Opera House, a national first-class actor, a winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, an outstanding expert of the Ministry of Culture, and enjoys special government allowances from the State Council. Zhang Junqiang was admitted to the Baoding City Drama School at the age of 9, and taught Mei Bohan, Guo Jingchun and other teachers during the school, with a vigorous, rounded voice, both literature and martial arts, and great artistic potential; in 1993, Mr. Ouyang Zhongshi and Mr. Zhang Rongpei, the descendants of the Xi School, as teachers, inherited and carried forward the euphemistic and delicate, fresh and elegant artistic performance style of the Xi School, and successively presented a number of excellent representative works: such as the traditional Peking Opera "White Emperor City", "Yang Jiajiang", "Silang Visiting Mother", the modern Peking Opera "Red Lantern Record", "Sha Jiabang", "Wisdom to Conquer Weihu Mountain" and the newly compiled historical Peking Opera Big Dream Song", "Da Shun", "Rainbow of Heavenly Road" and so on.
Ma Liang, graduated from Shandong Academy of Arts, is now a third-class actor of Jinan Peking Opera House. He studied under Wang Wenqing, Xu Wenkui, Shuang Yixiang, Yang Ruzhen and other teachers, and the traditional repertoire performed includes "Da Dengzhou", "Qin Qiong Guanjing", "Red-maned Spirit Horse", "Washing Floating Mountain", "Bumping Monument", "Lost Space Beheading", "Trial Head Thorn Soup", "South Heavenly Gate", "Dragon Play Phoenix" and so on. In recent years, Ma Liang has seriously studied the art of Peking Opera, worked diligently and diligently, and has won many awards, such as the "Performance Award" of the National Peking Opera Outstanding Young Actors Folding Zi Opera Exhibition, the First Prize of the Sixth Shandong Provincial Opera Red Plum Competition, the First Prize of the First and Second "Quanhe Award" Outstanding Young Actor Art Competition in Jinan City, the "Top Ten Actors" and "Quancheng Cultural Star" in Jinan City, and has participated in the training of the China Academy of Performing Arts and the "Chinese Excellent Traditional Arts Inheritance and Development Plan" and the Famous Family Drama - Contemporary masters receive apprenticeship projects.
At the worship ceremony, Ma Liang sincerely expressed his admiration and gratitude for Teacher Zhang Junqiang, read the worship stickers on the spot, saluted the master with tea, and performed the prostration ceremony in the traditional way of kneeling. Gao Xilu, Liu Jianjie, Li Baoliang, Li Qing and other provincial and municipal Peking opera masters came to the scene to witness this happy event in Pear Garden. Famous Peking Opera performing artists Tan Xiaozeng, Meng Guanglu, Xue Yaping, Li Shaobo, Li Hongtu, Du Zhenjie, Zhu Qiang, Xi Zhonglu, Zhang Huifang, Ni Maocai, famous opera composer Zhu Shaoyu, calligrapher and painter Liu Kewen, Hebei Yizi famous artist Zhang Sigang, and Peking Opera Xi Pai descendants Zhang Jianfeng, Wang Xiaociao, Zhao Jianzhong, and others sent congratulatory telegrams, sending blessings to congratulate the successors of the Peking Opera, and the art of the Xi School has a long history.