He Zhonghua
Lineage & School of Heritage
From 1960 she studied Hubei Xiaoqu under the blind artist Yu Yihe; in 1973 she was transferred to the Hubei Provincial Quyi Troupe, where she performed and trained students, her pupils now working in cultural and art institutions across the province and the city.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han ethnicity, born in November 1946 in Wuhan, Hubei Province. She is a National First-Class Actor, resident vice-chair of the Hubei Quyi Artists Association, and an expert receiving the special government allowance of the State Council. Her Hubei Xiaoqu performance is skilled at imitating voices and shaping characters; she uses breath, tone, diction, emotion and flavour in the vocal line, together with spoken passages, to portray figures and tell stories, and she pioneered the singing of long narrative “big books” in Hubei Xiaoqu. She took part in the tenth International Folk Song and Folk Music Festival in Buchberg, Austria, and the second International Folk Song Festival in Fersofen, Germany, singing diezi xiaoqu (plate songs) and striking and twirling small plates as percussion.
Honors & Recognition
She is a national representative bearer of Hubei Xiaoqu, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1982 Nan Baogong: Choosing a Consort won first prize for performance at the national showcase of outstanding quyi programmes (southern region) held by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and other bodies. In 2009 she was awarded the honorary title of quyi artist of outstanding contribution by the China Quyi Artists Association.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Hubei Xiaoqu Ⅴ-70
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