Yang Jun
Lineage & School of Heritage
At thirteen she entered the Anhui Provincial Art School to study the craft, began working as an actor at seventeen, and in 1989 became a disciple of Yu Xiaoyu.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
A woman of Han ethnicity, she was born in November 1963 in Dangtu County, Anhui Province. She is a National First-Class Actor and an expert receiving the special government allowance of the State Council. She excels at revealing her characters' inner worlds and at creating figures of widely differing temperaments, with an artistic quality described as delicate, charming and crisp.
Honors & Recognition
She is a representative bearer of Huangmei opera, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Her leading roles in such representative Huangmei operas as Meng Jiangnu, Two Monks Leave the Mountain, Unfinished Love and Mei Wa Crosses the River broadened the field of dan role performance in Huangmei opera. She has received the Gold Award for Performance at the 2nd China Huangmei Opera Arts Festival (1995), the 13th China Drama Plum Blossom Award (1996), the China Modern Opera Contribution Award (2011) and the Wenhua Performance Award of the Chinese Government Award for Culture and Arts (2013). For many years she has been devoted to transmitting and spreading opera art; among the young actors she has trained, one has won the China Drama Plum Blossom Award and several have become mainstays of their companies.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Huangmei Opera Ⅳ-60
- Huangmei Opera Ⅳ-60
- Huangmei Opera Ⅳ-60
- Huangmei Opera Ⅳ-60
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