Fei Lijun
01 · Lineage & Regional School
Fei Lijun, Female, Han, from Yangxin, Hubei, is a sixth-batch national representative bearer of Caicha Opera (Ⅳ-65). The tradition is documented in Yangxin, Hubei. Within the regional tradition and school record of Caicha Opera in Yangxin, Hubei: Yangxin caicha opera is one of Hubei's local genres, found mainly around Yangxin county. It is sung in dialect with vocal help-singing, its subject matter close to life and its dramatic feeling plain yet strong, much loved by the local people. It is found mainly in the Mufu mountains and the Fushui river basin and is sung in the Yangxin dialect with help-singing, sharing an origin with the caicha opera of northern Jiangxi and eastern Hunan yet with its own character; the Yangxin line is noted for giving equal weight to principal and florid tunes and for a strong flavour of life. In the Qing dynasty foreign operatic vocal styles including caicha opera spread along the Yangtze water routes and the Hubei–Jiangxi land routes to Yangxin county and combined with the tea songs of the Mufu mountains, forming Yangxin caicha opera in the Daoguang reign. In the late Qing and early Republic, under the influence of the Yangxin-born Han opera master Zhu Hongshou, Yangxin caicha opera made great strides and spread to neighbouring counties. In 1965 the Yangxin County Caicha Opera Troupe was founded, marking the genre's maturity. Drawing on local opera annals and Yangxin county cultural materials, Yangxin caicha opera formed on the basis of tea-lantern and huagu folk art, its singing comprising both banqiang-system principal tunes and florid-tune ditties, and after the 1950s it moved from amateur troupes towards professional performance.
02 · Mastery & Signature Works
The bearer record for Fei Lijun is anchored in the documented technical standards of Caicha Opera in Yangxin, Hubei. Within the documented technical tradition of Caicha Opera in Yangxin, Hubei: Yangxin caicha opera's singing is made up of principal tunes, florid tunes and percussion; the principal tunes belong to the ban-style variation form and include such melodies as “Beiqiang”, “Hanqiang”, “Tanqiang” and “Siping”, fine and pleasing, highly malleable and expressive, while the florid tunes include more than forty dedicated ditty interludes, the florid-tune-based short plays being song-and-dance and plain and unrestrained in performance. Yangxin caicha opera has many traditional plays, about a hundred or more. For more than forty years the Yangxin County Caicha Opera Troupe has staged a large number of excellent plays, such as San Gu Chu Gong and Chuang Wang Sha Qing, some of which have won top provincial festival awards. Its principal tunes belong to the ban-style variation form, including Beiqiang, Hanqiang, Tanqiang and Siping, with more than forty dedicated florid-tune ditties; the florid-tune-based short plays are song-and-dance, plain and unrestrained, forming a song-and-dance genre style. Representative repertoire, works and technical entries recorded for the project include: "San Gu Chu Gong (Third Aunt Leaves the Palace)": An excellent play staged by the Yangxin County Caicha Opera Troupe, which won a top provincial festival award. "Chuang Wang Sha Qing (The Rebel King's Revenge)": An excellent play staged by the Yangxin County Caicha Opera Troupe, which won a top provincial festival award.
San Gu Chu Gong (Third Aunt Leaves the Palace)
An excellent play staged by the Yangxin County Caicha Opera Troupe, which won a top provincial festival award.
Chuang Wang Sha Qing (The Rebel King's Revenge)
An excellent play staged by the Yangxin County Caicha Opera Troupe, which won a top provincial festival award.
Core Technique I
Yangxin caicha opera's singing is made up of principal tunes, florid tunes and percussion;
Core Technique II
the principal tunes belong to the ban-style variation form and include such melodies as “Beiqiang”, “Hanqiang”, “Tanqiang” and “Siping”, fine and pleasing, highly malleable and expressive, while the florid tunes include more than forty dedicated ditty interludes, the florid-tune-based short plays being song-and-dance and plain and unrestrained in performance.
03 · Transmission & Safeguarding Status
In 2025, Fei Lijun was announced in the sixth batch of national representative bearers for Caicha Opera, with Yangxin, Hubei as the declared area. Within the documented safeguarding record of Caicha Opera in Yangxin, Hubei: The project was inscribed in the national inventory in 2008 (batch 2), with Yangxin, Hubei as its declared area, and Yangxin Caichaxi Transmission Center as its safeguarding unit. Since the project was inscribed in the national inventory, its declared area and safeguarding unit have carried out documentation, transmission and presentation within the national safeguarding framework. Together, the inventory record and the project archive form the public documentary basis for the bearer’s transmission practice.
04 · Associated Heritage Item Dossier
Historical origin
In the Qing dynasty foreign operatic vocal styles including caicha opera spread along the Yangtze water routes and the Hubei–Jiangxi land routes to Yangxin county and combined with the tea songs of the Mufu mountains, forming Yangxin caicha opera in the Daoguang reign. In the late Qing and early Republic, under the influence of the Yangxin-born Han opera master Zhu Hongshou, Yangxin caicha opera made great strides and spread to neighbouring counties. In 1965 the Yangxin County Caicha Opera Troupe was founded, marking the genre's maturity. Drawing on local opera annals and Yangxin county cultural materials, Yangxin caicha opera formed on the basis of tea-lantern and huagu folk art, its singing comprising both banqiang-system principal tunes and florid-tune ditties, and after the 1950s it moved from amateur troupes towards professional performance.
05 · Fellow National Bearers Lineage
National representative bearers recorded under the same item code, ordered from the first to the sixth batch. Batch order is not a teacher–student relationship.
| Bearer | Declared area | Roster code | Relation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chen Shengqiang | Bobai, Guangxi | 02-0595 | Other regional school |
| Li Jiagao | Yangxin, Hubei | 03-1057 | Same declared area |
| Chen Binmao | Ganzhou, Jiangxi | 04-1647 | Other regional school |
| Wan Anan | Fuzhoushilinchuan, Jiangxi | 04-1648 | Other regional school |
| Wu Yancheng | Shaoguan, Guangdong | 04-1649 | Other regional school |
| Peng Jinhua | Gaoan, Jiangxi | 05-2376 | Other regional school |
| Wu Lan | Fuzhoushilinchuan, Jiangxi | — | Other regional school |
| Chu Fengrong | Gaoan, Jiangxi | — | Other regional school |
| Fei Lijun | Yangxin, Hubei | — | This page |
06 · Archival Sources & Bibliography
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