Yan Huizhen
Lineage & School of Heritage
She began teaching students in 1985; besides her formally accepted disciples, some opera enthusiasts and amateur performers who never became formal pupils also came under her careful instruction, and some of them have joined professional troupes while others are able to carry leading roles.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Born in September 1939, she is a woman of the Han ethnic group from Shouyang County, Shanxi Province. At seventeen she entered the First Jinju Troupe of Taiyuan, first studying under Bai Jinshan and specialising in xusheng (bearded male) roles; she later became a disciple of the Jinju master Ding Guoxian, inheriting the Ding school and developing it further. She excels in singing; her voice is broad and resonant, her timbre round and beautiful, and she has well inherited the Ding school's combination of firmness and gentleness and its use of voice to convey feeling; she pays attention to expressing the spirit and inner life of her characters, her acting is generous and her performance delicate, uniting form and spirit and moving her audience. Her representative pieces include The Reed Flowers (Lu Hua), The Golden Branch (Da Jin Zhi), The Double Silk Robes (Shuang Luo Shan), The Butterfly Cup (Hu Die Bei) and The Empty City Stratagem (Kong Cheng Ji).
Honors & Recognition
She is a national representative bearer of Jinju (Shanxi Opera), a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Jinju (Shanxi Opera) Ⅳ-18
- Jinju (Shanxi Opera) Ⅳ-18
- Jinju (Shanxi Opera) Ⅳ-18
- Jinju (Shanxi Opera) Ⅳ-18
- Jinju (Shanxi Opera) Ⅳ-18
- Jinju (Shanxi Opera) Ⅳ-18
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