Liu Qiaoju

02-0601Yangge OperaTraditional OperaLongyao, HebeiBatch 2 (2008)

Lineage & School of Heritage

In March 1955 Liu Qiaoju was admitted to the Longyao Yangge Troupe of Hebei Province and became a pupil of Yang Baotian, a renowned Yangge artist, celebrated chou (clown) performer and sixth-generation transmitter who also took qingyi roles. She first studied xiaodan (young female) roles, entered the Yangge class of the Fengcun Opera School in 1958 to study xiaosheng, wusheng and xusheng roles, and performed as an actor in the Longyao County Troupe from 1959 to 1966 and again from 1976 to 1989, becoming a seventh-generation transmitter of Longyao Yangge Opera.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Female, of Han ethnicity, born in 1942 in Gaoyi, Hebei. Her voice is clear and pure; her singing and spoken passages are plain and easy to understand, graceful and pleasing to the ear; her acting is finely detailed, she excels at portraying her characters' inner feelings, and she is skilled in the hair-whirling (shuaifa) technique. Her representative works include The Painted Tower Match (Cai Lou Pei) and Luo Tong's Northern Campaign (Luo Tong Zheng Bei).

Honors & Recognition

A national representative bearer of Yangge Opera (Longyao Yangge Opera), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.

References & Archival Sources

Liu Qiaoju · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Yangge Opera
Item code: Ⅳ-70
Category: Traditional Opera
Region: Longyao, Hebei
Born: 1942.09.19
Batch: Batch 2 (2008)

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