Jiang Guifeng
Lineage & School of Heritage
At the age of thirteen she joined the Zhuji West-Road Luantan Art Troupe, where she studied under the veteran artist Jin Hongman, specializing in the huadan (lively female) role type.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, of Han ethnicity, born in August 1940 in Zhuji County, Zhejiang Province. Handsome in appearance and sweet-voiced, with a wide vocal range and a gift for characterization, she was a principal performer and a representative figure of Zhuji West-Road Luantan. Her representative works include Shuang Yang Gong Zhu Zhui Di Qing (Princess Shuangyang Pursues Di Qing), San Qing Fan Li Hua (Thrice Summoning Fan Lihua), Mu Guiying Gua Shuai (Mu Guiying Takes Command), Shuang Gui Tu (The Double Honours) and Jiu Jian Yi (The Nine-Robed Garment). After the troupe was disbanded in 1969 she was assigned to work in a printing factory, yet she remained committed to the cause of West-Road Luantan.
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Luantan (Zhuji West-Road Luantan), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. After her retirement in 1994 she devoted herself entirely to the safeguarding, transmission and promotion of Luantan art, collecting and collating plays, qupai (tune titles), instruments and related materials, running training classes, guiding the revival of traditional plays and training outstanding students such as Zhuo Linli and Cai Tieping.
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