Chen Shifang
Lineage & School of Heritage
She came from a family of dagu performers; her grandfather Chen Qiaoling and her elder sister Chen Shixin were both Dongbei Dagu artists.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Manchu ethnicity, born in July 1962 in Fu County, Liaoning Province. At the age of 12 she began learning to sing Dongbei Dagu from her elder sister Chen Shixin, and after four years of study she had basically mastered the various rhythmic patterns such as da'an ban, liushui ban and erliu ban. Later, under the guidance of the Fuzhou Dongbei Dagu artist Lin Zhengxin, her skills advanced further and she grasped the essence of Fuzhou Dongbei Dagu; her singing has correct diction and rounded tones, is melodious and beautiful and combines voice with feeling, and she is skilled in the use of kouzi (suspense devices) and baofu (comic pay-offs), her handling of the four major mouths and the four minor mouths in particular being praised by her peers. Her representative works include the full-length books Yang Family Generals (Yang Jia Jiang), Xue Family Generals (Xue Jia Jiang), Hu and Yang Join Forces (Hu Yang He Bing) and Wang Hua Buys a Father (Wang Hua Mai Die), and the short pieces A Night's Lodging at the Flower Pavilion (Ye Su Hua Ting), Yan Qing Sells Thread (Yan Qing Mai Xian), Borrowing Arrows with Straw Boats (Cao Chuan Jie Jian) and Zhaojun Goes Beyond the Frontier (Zhaojun Chu Sai).
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Dongbei Dagu (Fuzhou Dongbei Dagu), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
Profile
This static English edition is rendered at the edge for search engines, AI crawlers and readers without JavaScript. Compiled from official national representative bearer archival records, organized by topic and translated into English. 阅读中文版。