Zhang Youlin

02-0509Peking OperaTraditional OperaTianjinBatch 2 (2008)

Lineage & School of Heritage

Zhang Youlin is a son of the celebrated wusheng actor Zhang Shilin. He studied the art with his father from childhood and later joined the Third Tianjin Peking Opera Troupe.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1953 in Wen'an, Hebei. His skills are firmly grounded, and he has distinguished himself in both changkao and duanda roles. He has fairly comprehensively inherited his father's signature repertory, including Jin Chi Da Peng (The Golden-Winged Roc), Ma Chao, Wu Song and Yandang Mountain, and has passed it on to a number of outstanding young wusheng performers. His stage bearing is handsome and well formed, and he can employ consummate technique to reveal a character's psychology at precisely the right moment and to shape the figure on stage. His representative works include Jin Chi Da Peng, Wugong Ridge and The Battle of Jizhou.

Honors & Recognition

National representative bearer of Peking Opera, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, a first-grade actor and a winner of the seventh Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Theatre.

References & Archival Sources

Zhang Youlin · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Peking Opera
Item code: Ⅳ-28
Category: Traditional Opera
Region: Tianjin
Born: 1953.12.03
Batch: Batch 2 (2008)

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