Hou Shaokui

02-0416Kun Qu OperaTraditional OperaBeijingBatch 2 (2008)

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1939, a native of Yutian, Hebei. Hou Shaokui began studying Kun Qu opera in 1956. He studied under the celebrated Peking and Kun Qu master Hou Yongkui and specialized in the wusheng (martial male) and hongjing (red-face) roles of Kun Qu, excelling in painted-face wusheng pieces. He formed a distinctly personal northern Kun Qu wusheng art in such respects as performance, movement, vocal style, percussion, costume and facial makeup. His representative works include Dan Dao Hui (The Single-Sword Meeting), Lin Chong Ye Ben (Lin Chong Flees by Night) and Qian Li Song Jing Niang (Escorting Jing Niang a Thousand Li).

Honors & Recognition

A national representative bearer of Kun Qu Opera, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is a first-class actor and a recipient of the second China Drama Plum Blossom Award.

References & Archival Sources

Hou Shaokui · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Kun Qu Opera
Item code: Ⅳ-1
Category: Traditional Opera
Region: Beijing
Born: 1939.01.10
Batch: Batch 2 (2008)

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