Zhang Qinyin
Lineage & School of Heritage
Zhang Qinyin studied under Zhao Mengbo, a veteran artist of Southern Route Zhuang opera. In 1951 she formed the Dong'an Street amateur Zhuang opera troupe of Debao County and served as its leading performer, and in 1959 she became deputy head and principal actress of the Guangxi Youjiang Zhuang Opera Troupe.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Zhuang, born in 1933, a native of Debao, Guangxi. She is accomplished in the traditional vocal styles of Southern Route Zhuang opera and in the performance of civil plays, and is the only surviving founder of Southern Route Zhuang opera. Zhang Qinyin inherited and developed the traditional folk Southern Route Zhuang opera, innovating its vocal styles and stage postures while absorbing the performance style of Northern Route Zhuang opera; she thus brought about the convergence of the southern and northern routes of Zhuang opera and enriched the ethnic character of its physical vocabulary.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Zhuang Opera, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project; a national second-grade actress. More than twenty plays in which she took part were all well received, and she recruited and trained a group of Zhuang opera performers renowned in Guangxi and throughout the country, including Lin Peiyan, Zhang Yonglan and He Yiwen. Her representative works include Liu Sanjie (Third Sister Liu), Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang, Chi Ye He (River of Red Leaves), The White Snake and Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Zhuangju Opera Ⅳ-82
- Zhuangju Opera Ⅳ-82
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