Zhang Yunhua
Lineage & School of Heritage
From 1960 she studied danxian in a formal quyi training programme, learning successively under Tan Fengyuan, founder of the Tan school of danxian, and Han Defu, the celebrated master of the sanxian, and also receiving guidance from the noted danxian artist Zhao Yuming.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Manchu ethnicity, born in January 1948 in Beijing. She is a National First-Class Actor. Her stage presence is elegant and unconstrained, her singing rich in flavour with clear diction, and her performances full of passion; she excels at portraying a wide range of characters and has a distinctive command of the playing and striking of the bajiaogu (octagonal drum). In the early 1980s, working with older-generation danxian artists, she carried out bold reforms of traditional danxian, bringing a series of traditional pieces back to life. Her disciples include Yang Man, Lu Chen and Ma Jing.
Honors & Recognition
She is a national representative bearer of Danxian Paizi Melody (including Chaqu), a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Her work Xianglin Sao (Sister Xianglin) won the Performance Award at the second China Quyi Peony Awards, presented by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Quyi Artists Association, in 2002.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Danxian Paizi Melody Ⅴ-49
- Danxian Paizi Melody Ⅴ-49
- Danxian Paizi Melody Ⅴ-49
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