Yuanzonghan
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1952 he was admitted to the Sanyi Society of Xi'an, where he studied Qinqiang under such distinguished artists as Zhang Zhaojian, Li Tiantang and Su Yumin.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
He is a National First-Class Actor. In long years of artistic practice he has proved adept at inheriting from tradition and drawing on other forms. His performance is free and steady, his phrasing distinctive and full of vocal colour, and he gradually formed an artistic style of his own. His representative productions include Shi Wu Guan (Fifteen Strings of Cash), Yu Fu Shan (Fish-Belly Mountain), Zhao Shi Gu'er (The Orphan of Zhao) and Da Zhen Tai (Beating the County Magistrate). He took part several times in national traditional opera showcases in Beijing.
Honors & Recognition
Male, Han ethnicity, born in January 1940 in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province; he died in November 2015. National representative bearer of Qinqiang Opera, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1993 he was named one of the ten best Qinqiang actors of Shaanxi Province. In order to transmit Qinqiang art he trained disciples including Ding Liangsheng, Tan Jianxun and Liu Suishe.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Qinqiang Opera Ⅳ-16
- Qinqiang Opera Ⅳ-16
- Qinqiang Opera Ⅳ-16
- Qinqiang Opera Ⅳ-16
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