Li Shiji
Lineage & School of Heritage
Li Shiji began learning to sing Nu Qi Jie (The Female Prisoner's Lament) at the age of five and received instruction from Cheng Yanqiu and Furongcao. At 12 she formally took Cheng Yanqiu as her master and studied the qingyi, or virtuous female, role, later seeking guidance from Mei Lanfang, Zhao Tongshan and Wang Youqing. Years of diligent study and hard practice gave her a solid foundation.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han ethnicity, born in 1933 in Meixian, Guangdong. She is a national representative bearer of Peking Opera, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, a Peking Opera performing artist and a first-grade actor. Li Shiji was a principal performer of the China National Peking Opera Company. Her acting excels at finely delineating character, and her singing is graceful and rounded; taking the vocal idiom of the Cheng school as her model while introducing innovations of her own, she broke new ground by shaping a series of vivid and moving characters through musical vocal writing. Her representative works include Wen Ji Gui Han (Cai Wenji Returns to the Han), Suo Lin Nang (The Jeweled Pouch) and the modern opera Dang de Nü'er (Daughter of the Party).
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Peking Opera Ⅳ-28
- Peking Opera Ⅳ-28
- Peking Opera Ⅳ-28
- Peking Opera Ⅳ-28
- Peking Opera Ⅳ-28
- Peking Opera Ⅳ-28
- Peking Opera Ⅳ-28
- Peking Opera Ⅳ-28
- Peking Opera Ⅳ-28
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