Zhang Jidie
Lineage & School of Heritage
He specializes in the chou, or comic, role type and studied under the renowned Kunqu artists Bao Chuansong, Zhou Chuancang, Shen Chuanzhi and Liu Chuanheng, as well as Li Luoke, a famous chou of Han opera, and Zhang Chunhua, a renowned wu chou, or acrobatic comic, of Peking opera.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in April 1945 in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. He is a performing artist of the chou role type in traditional opera. He has a solid foundation and excels in technique; his acting is plain and unadorned, and he is known for his portrayals of kind-hearted ordinary people. While carrying on tradition he has made breakthroughs in and refined such skills as the aizi gong, or dwarf posture, and he is hailed as the living Wu Dalang, after the short-statured character in the classic novel Water Margin.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Kunqu Opera, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1987 he received the Fourth China Drama Plum Blossom Award. His representative repertoire includes Beating the Tiger and Parading the Street (Da Hu You Jie), Teasing the Uncle and Parting from the Brother (Xi Shu Bie Xiong), Appearing as a Ghost and Killing the Sister-in-Law (Xian Hun Sha Sao), Hujia Village (Hu Jia Zhuang), The Little Herd Boy (Xiao Fang Niu), Coming Down the Mountain Together (Shuang Xia Shan), A Match Made in the Cupboard (Gui Zhong Yuan), Selling Xing (Mai Xing) and Plucking the Eyebrows to Visit the Prison (Ba Mei Tan Jian). His performing activities have taken him throughout the country and to Hong Kong and Taiwan as well as to Germany, Italy, Japan, Finland, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Korea, and his disciple Li Hongliang received the Twenty-fifth China Drama Plum Blossom Award in 2011.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
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