Zhuang Chenhua
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1944 in Nanjing County, Fujian. From 1958 to 1960 Zhuang Chenhua studied glove puppet performance at the Zhangzhou Art School under the puppet master Yang Sheng; from 1960 to the present he has been a professional actor with the Zhangzhou Puppet Troupe.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Puppetry (Zhangzhou glove puppetry), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, a Grade I actor, honorary chairman of the China Puppet and Shadow Art Association, and a recipient of the special government allowance of the State Council. In 1979 he received the Fujian Provincial Outstanding Young Actor Award, in 1992 the Ministry of Culture's Outstanding Performance Award, and in 1994 the honorary title of National Puppet Art Elite. He starred in the traditional puppet play Da Ming Fu (The Prefectural City of Daming), which won an international puppet performance award in the Czech Republic, and took the leading roles in a series of classic traditional plays including Mai Ma Nao Fu, The Eight Immortals Cross the Sea, Three Battles with the White Bone Demon, Marshal Zhong Kui and The Story of the Lackey, which became prize productions of filmed glove puppetry. He also played leading roles in a number of films and television productions, and the puppet play The Legend of the Lackey won the Ministry of Culture's national outstanding actor award.
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