Chen Peng
Lineage & School of Heritage
Since 1956 Chen Peng has served successively as an actor in xiaosheng (young male) roles, as director, composer, drum master and troupe head at the Daoxiang Chaoju Troupe of Chao'an County, the Chao'an Chaoju Troupe and the Chaozhou City Chaoju Troupe, studying under the Chaoju masters Yang Wenjia, Huang Mucheng, Huang Yudou, Lin Heren and Yang Guangquan, the drummer Lin Binghe and the director Zheng Yun.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1942, a native of Chaozhou, Guangdong. Over half a century in the art, Chen Peng has accumulated and mastered all the traditional qupai (tune patterns), compositional methods and performance practices of Chaoju Opera, and the Chaoju works he has arranged and composed have exercised a fairly wide influence in the regions where the genre is performed. His representative works include Mo Chou Nü (Mo Chou, the Sorrowless Maid), Bao Lian Deng (The Lotus Lantern), Qi Ri Hong (Seven Days of Red) and Yi Chun.
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Chaoju Opera, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is a national second-class composer.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Chaoju Opera Ⅳ-4
- Chaoju Opera Ⅳ-4
- Chaoju Opera Ⅳ-4
- Chaoju Opera Ⅳ-4
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