Wang Lanying
Lineage & School of Heritage
She studied under the renowned Xiju Opera masters Tang Guozhen and Miao Xiujin.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
A national first-class actor. She specialized in huadan (young female) roles and was the founder of the Wang school of the dan (female) role in Xiju Opera. Her singing was graceful, soft, sandy-smooth and pleasing to the ear, with unusual coloratura passages, and scholars and experts described it as a "moon amid the clouds" with a charm all its own. Her stage presence was airy, relaxed and delicately moving, and she was acclaimed as "the Mei Lanfang of southern Jiangsu". Representative works include Shuang Tui Mo (Two People at the Mill), Yu Qing Ting (The Jade Dragonfly), Chang E Ben Yue (Chang E Flees to the Moon), Meng Lijun, Zhen Zhu Ta (The Pearl Pagoda), Chui Deng Shi Bi (Testing the Brush by Lamp-Light) and Xian Ying Qiao (Xianying Bridge), among others. She and her representative work Shuang Tui Mo were successively included in reference works such as the Encyclopedia of China, the Dictionary of Chinese Artists and the Dictionary of Chinese Opera and Quyi.
Honors & Recognition
Female, Han nationality, born in August 1926 and deceased in July 2019, a native of Wujin County, Jiangsu Province. A national representative bearer of Xiju Opera, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1954 she took part in the First East China Regional Festival of Opera Observation and Performance and won a first prize for acting. Her performing activities took her throughout the country, and her student Ni Tongfang won the Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Theatre.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Xiju Opera Ⅳ-103
- Xiju Opera Ⅳ-103
- Xiju Opera Ⅳ-103
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