Ren Tingfang
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1978 he took the celebrated Sichuan Opera clown Zhou Yuxiang as his teacher, specialising in the clown (chou) role of Sichuan Opera and thoroughly assimilating his master's style.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in October 1942 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. He is a National First-Class Actor and an expert entitled to the special government allowance of the State Council. In 1952 he entered the Youxin Grand Theatre to study Sichuan Opera performance. He also received guidance and instruction from Zhou Qihe, a performing artist of Sichuan Opera clown roles. Innovatively applying a variety of traditional Sichuan Opera expressive devices, he gave artistic shape to the personalities of diverse stage characters, fusing the performance elements peculiar to Sichuan Opera with modern aesthetic sensibilities, and formed a clown-role style whose principal devices are wit and humour. His artistic influence has been wide. His representative works include Huo Zhuo San Lang (Capturing San Lang Alive), Qiu Jiang (Autumn River) and Wu San Na Hu (Wu San Catches the Tiger).
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Chuanju (Sichuan Opera), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He has also worked as a director. The production Yi Danda (The Fearless Yi), which he directed, won the gold prize at the Second Sichuan Opera Festival of Sichuan Province, and He Qin Ji (The Record of a Marriage Alliance) won the directing award at the Fourth China Theatre Festival.
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