Pan Jingle

02-0678Shadow PuppetryTraditional OperaWeinan, ShaanxiBatch 2 (2008)

Lineage & School of Heritage

Pan Jingle began learning the craft at the age of fourteen from his uncle Pan Baohua, and later took Liu Dewa as his teacher, concentrating on lead singing. Because of his fine natural voice he went on stage only five months later and scored an instant success, earning the sobriquet May Red.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1929, a native of Hua County, Shaanxi. His disciples include Lü Chongde and Liu Jianping; he is the oldest performing master now on the Hua County shadow play stage and is called a living fossil of shadow puppetry.

Honors & Recognition

A representative bearer of Shadow Puppetry (Hua County Shadow Puppetry), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He can perform a wide range of role types, including huadan (young female), xiaosheng (young scholar), emperor and military general, and excels at portraying characters in the Wanwanqiang style with a slightly weeping tone, with great emotional power. In the course of his life he has starred in more than two hundred plays, among them Zhou Ren Hui Fu (Zhou Ren Returns to His Mansion) and Er Du Mei (The Plum Blossom Blooms Twice); in 1956 he won a performance award at the First National Shadow Puppet and Marionette Festival, and he has taken part in many artistic exchange activities at home and abroad.

References & Archival Sources

Pan Jingle · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Shadow Puppetry
Item code: Ⅳ-91
Category: Traditional Opera
Region: Weinan, Shaanxi
Born: 1929.10.10
Batch: Batch 2 (2008)

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