Yuan Zhangkao
Lineage & School of Heritage
He studied under the veteran artist Li Beitian, specializing in the xusheng (bearded male) role while also performing other role types.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
He is a National Third-Grade Actor. His stage presence is steady and his stage walk free and easy, and he has formed a style of his own in the handling of the beard (rankou), the hat wings (maochi), the water sleeves (shuixiu) and spoken passages (nianbai). He renders the inner thoughts and feelings of his characters with minute care, so that each figure has a face of its own and is brought vividly to life. His voice is broad and sonorous and his singing controlled in its rise and fall; he makes skilled use of huaqiang (florid melodic passages) and ouyin (retching tones), and his melodic lines flow naturally. While inheriting tradition he has absorbed and drawn on the vocal art of Luju Opera, Siguxian and other genres, and has both inherited and developed the laosheng singing of Luoqiang. He commands more than forty traditional plays, his representative works including Mai Miaolang (Selling Miaolang), Maqian Poshui (Water Spilled Before the Horse) and Lü Mengzheng Ganzhai (Lü Mengzheng Seeks a Meal). He has collected the scripts of more than thirty traditional Luoqiang plays and compiled them into volumes totaling more than eighty thousand characters. Since he began taking disciples in 1974 he has passed on the art for three generations.
Honors & Recognition
Male, Han ethnicity, born in February 1941, died in January 2015, a native of Neihuang County, Henan Province. National representative bearer of Luoqiang, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Luoqiang Ⅳ-148
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