Chinese Craft Stories NATIONAL HERITAGE INVENTORY
Home / Bearers / 02-0446

Zhang Xiaoyou

02-0446Siping OperaTraditional OperaZhenghe, FujianBatch 2 (2008)

Lineage & School of Heritage

In 1979, Zhang Xiaoyou joined a Siping opera troupe, where he studied successively under the veteran artists Zhang Chenzhao and Zhang Mingjia, specialising in the dan (female) role type.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, of Han ethnicity, born in 1951 in Zhenghe, Fujian. In October 2006, with the support of the local government and Yangyuan Primary School, he established a small Siping opera troupe and served as its teacher, passing on the performance techniques of Siping opera. His representative works include Bai Tu Ji (The White Rabbit) and Qin Xianglian.

Honors & Recognition

A national representative bearer of Siping Opera, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, and director of the Siping opera troupe of Yangyuan Township, Zhenghe County, Fujian Province.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Zhang Xiaoyou · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Siping Opera
Item code
Ⅳ-11
Category
Traditional Opera
Region
Zhenghe, Fujian
Born
1951.09.06
Batch
Batch 2 (2008)

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。