Jia Bingzheng

05-2316Jinju (Shanxi Opera)Traditional OperaJinzhong, ShanxiBatch 5 (2018)

Lineage & School of Heritage

He has taught countless students, twenty-seven of whom formally became his disciples; in recent years he has also worked with his disciples to record nearly one hundred demonstration videos of notation examples that are on the verge of being lost from the stage.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Han ethnicity, born in October 1932 in Yuci County, Shanxi Province. He loved Jinju from childhood; at the age of 15 he left school and joined a troupe, successively taking Wang Desheng and Zhao Tingjie as his teachers to learn drum and clapper playing. He can proficiently lead the drum for more than three hundred plays, and has accompanied nearly one hundred celebrated opera artists of the older, middle-aged and younger generations, including Ding Guoxian, Cheng Yuying, Guo Lanying, Zheng Yalou, Liu Zhilan, Wang Yinzhu, Wang Aiai, Cheng Lingxian, Bai Guiying, Wang Wanmei and Shi Guihua. In 1975 he was transferred to the Jinzhong Art School to teach, where he continued to compose and design percussion music, and published works such as Percussion Music of Jinju and A Comprehensive Notation of Traditional Jinju Gongs and Drums.

Honors & Recognition

National representative bearer of Jinju (Shanxi Opera), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.

References & Archival Sources

Jia Bingzheng · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Jinju (Shanxi Opera)
Item code: Ⅳ-18
Category: Traditional Opera
Region: Jinzhong, Shanxi
Born: —
Batch: Batch 5 (2018)

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