Xiaojunting
Lineage & School of Heritage
She first studied under Yang Yi and later under Zhu Jincai. Making full use of the low, broad and rich quality of her own voice, she created new vocal idioms of her own, adeptly employing techniques such as tao, shan, ding, duo, ji, dun, cuo and lun to vary the rhythm, so that it is fast without confusion and slow without breaking off, supple and ingenious, and she thus became the founder of the Xiao school of laodan (old female) art.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han ethnicity, born in 1921 in Leling, Shandong. From 1929 to 1952 Xiaojunting performed in Tangshan, elsewhere in Hebei, Changchun, Jinzhou and other places, and after 1952 she was transferred to the Shenyang Pingju Theatre, where she remained until her retirement, with a period in between spent working in the countryside. Her representative works include Dui Hua Qiang (The Flower Spear Duel), Da Jinzhi (Beating the Golden Branch), Yang Bajie Youchun (Yang Bajie Goes A-Maying), Yangmen Nüjiang (The Women Generals of the Yang Family) and Xiaoyuan Fengbo (The Dispute in the Courtyard).
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Pingju Opera, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project; founder of the Xiao school of Pingju Opera; and a first-grade actor.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Pingju Opera Ⅳ-51
- Pingju Opera Ⅳ-51
- Pingju Opera Ⅳ-51
- Pingju Opera Ⅳ-51
- Pingju Opera Ⅳ-51
- Pingju Opera Ⅳ-51
- Pingju Opera Ⅳ-51
- Pingju Opera Ⅳ-51
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