Chen Dehui
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han ethnicity, born in 1943 in Liangping, Chongqing. Chen Dehui joined the Liangping County Sichuan Opera Troupe in 1953 and was apprenticed to Zhu Nianfang, learning huadan, daomadan (martial female), qingyi and yaodan (flirtatious female) roles. After 1980 she again took Zhu Nianfang and Tian Bingyou as her teachers to study the performing art of Liangshan lantern opera, and she has devoted herself mainly to performance, playwriting and direction in that genre. Since her retirement in 1994 she has continued to create, teach and perform Liangshan lantern opera.
Honors & Recognition
She is a second-batch national representative bearer of lantern opera (Liangshan lantern opera), a national intangible cultural heritage project, and a National Third-Grade Actor. Over more than forty years on the stage she has taken the leading role in several hundred large-scale productions, including Shuang Bai Yue (Worshipping the Moon Together), and has written and directed dozens of Liangshan lantern operas, among them Zhao Nüxu (Taking a Son-in-Law), winning numerous national, provincial and municipal awards.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Lantern Opera Ⅳ-77
- Lantern Opera Ⅳ-77
- Lantern Opera Ⅳ-77
Profile
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