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Liang Jialiang

04-1691Qiongju OperaTraditional OperaQiongjuyuan, HainanBatch 4 (2012)

Lineage & School of Heritage

He began learning the art at seventeen and at twenty-one joined the Xinqunxing Troupe, studying under such celebrated artists as Sanshengban (Wang Xiuming) and Han Wenhua, and specializing in the xiaosheng (young scholar) role.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Han ethnicity, born in October 1934, a native of Haikou City, Hainan Province. He is a National Second-Grade Actor. He won critical approval for his performances in Shiyu Zhuo (Picking Up the Jade Bracelet) and Fan Lihua. His acting is free, elegant and refined, his bearing well measured, and he is especially skilled in the jinsheng (scarfed young scholar) role type. His singing has clear diction and a mellow savor, and his melodic lines are long, melodious and subtly modulated, with clearly marked levels of expression. He has successively taken the leading role in nearly one hundred productions, including Zhang Wenxiu, Sou Shuyuan (Searching the Academy) and Qipin Zhimaguan (The Seventh-Rank Sesame Official). He has toured Thailand and Singapore with the troupe, and at the invitation of Singapore National Television and Thammasat University of Thailand he recorded such plays as Qipin Zhimaguan, Baihua Gongzhu (Princess of a Hundred Flowers) and Hanwen Huanghou (Empress Hanwen).

Honors & Recognition

National representative bearer of Qiongju Opera, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He has long devoted himself to training talent for Qiongju art, and his student Fu Chuanjie has won the China Drama Plum Blossom Award.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Liang Jialiang · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Qiongju Opera
Item code
Ⅳ-130
Category
Traditional Opera
Region
Qiongjuyuan, Hainan
Born
1934.10
Batch
Batch 4 (2012)

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