Zhang Yuwen
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1956 she joined the Beijing Kunqu Research Society, and in 1958 she entered the trainee class of the Northern Kunqu Opera Theatre, studying under Han Shichang, Bai Yunsheng, Ma Xianglin, Fu Xueyi, Wu Nanqing and others; in 1983 she formally became a disciple of Ma Xianglin.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han ethnicity, born in February 1945, a native of Beijing. A National First-Class Actor. She specializes in the guimen dan (boudoir maiden) role and also performs daoma dan (sword-and-horse female), zheng dan (principal female) and cisha dan (assassin female) roles. She has mastered dozens of Kunqu zhezixi (selected scenes), with graceful postures and clear, rounded singing in which every word is correctly pronounced; her performances are both expressive and emotionally rich, and she is accomplished in both civil and martial roles. Representative plays include The Peony Pavilion, The Romance of the Western Chamber, The Palace of Eternal Life, The Jade Hairpin, Baihua Ji (The Hundred Flowers), Chaimeng (A Foolish Dream) from Lanke Shan, Chusai (Crossing the Frontier) from Qingzhong Ji, Cihu (Stabbing the Tiger) from Tieguan Tu, Yaotai from Nanke Meng, Leifeng Pagoda and Qipan Hui (The Chessboard Meeting).
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Kunqu Opera, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. After 1987 she concentrated on teaching, training a large number of successors and also teaching foreign students.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
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