Du Xuezhou
Lineage & School of Heritage
Du Xuezhou began apprenticing with masters at the age of 13, studying the performance techniques of wujing, the martial painted-face role, successively under Ge Yinhai, Li Yuanming and Shi Xiangsheng.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1940 in Hua County, Henan. Du Xuezhou commands an exceptionally broad range of roles: he has portrayed the dabulian, or grand painted-face, characters Zhao Kongming and Xue Gang, and has also mastered the dabailian, or grand white-face, roles Pan Hongmei and Wang Fen, rendering figures of markedly different styles with concrete, well-judged precision. His representative works include Xue Gang Fan Tang (Xue Gang Rebels Against the Tang) and Wang Mang Cuan Chao (Wang Mang Usurps the Throne).
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Dapingdiao, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, and holds the rank of national third-grade actor. Now well past seventy, he remains active on the stage and currently has two disciples who carry on his art.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Dapingdiao Ⅳ-26
- Dapingdiao Ⅳ-26
- Dapingdiao Ⅳ-26
- Dapingdiao Ⅳ-26
- Dapingdiao Ⅳ-26
- Dapingdiao Ⅳ-26
- Dapingdiao Ⅳ-26
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