Xing Yanzhi
Lineage & School of Heritage
Xing Yanzhi began studying the art under her father Xing Ruiting in 1961 and has worked in pingtan performance for more than forty years. She is proficient in more than twenty stylistic schools, with particular mastery of the Qi tune, the Yu tune and the Yang-school Yu tune.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, of the Han ethnic group, born in 1948 in Suzhou, Jiangsu. After years of practice and devoted research, Xing Yanzhi blended the Qi tune and the art of the Yang school into the Yu tune, creating the Yanzhi tune and summing up the artistic principle that sound follows emotion while words turn with the melody. Applying scientific vocal technique, she widened her range and has become the representative of the innovative mainstream among female vocal styles in Suzhou pingtan today. Her performance is rich in feeling, her narration and dialogue are clearly articulated, and her voice is fresh, clear and round, full of personality, expressive power and appeal. She has repeatedly studied abroad and taken part in international artistic exchange. Her representative works include the long tanci Yang Naiwu and Xiao Baicai (Yang Naiwu yu Xiao Baicai), The Horse Trader (Fan Ma Ji) and Three Mothers (San Ge Muqin).
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Suzhou Pingtan (Suzhou Tanci), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project; a first-class actor; a winner of the Wenhua Performance Award and the Peony Award for Quyi; and a recipient of the special government allowance of the State Council. Xing Yanzhi is now a professional teacher at the Suzhou Pingtan School. In more than twenty years of pingtan teaching she has carefully cultivated successors, organised a key class for transmission, boldly explored original teaching approaches and ideas, and devoted herself to training research-oriented talent. She has twelve formal disciples, and her students are distributed across Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and elsewhere.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Suzhou Pingtan Ⅴ-1
- Suzhou Pingtan Ⅴ-1
- Suzhou Pingtan Ⅴ-1
- Suzhou Pingtan Ⅴ-1
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