Yu Qiaoyun
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1993 the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Culture named the Qinqiang performing-art school represented by Yu Qiaoyun the Yu school.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
She is a National First-Class Actor. At the age of ten she took Wu Limin, an actor of the Sanyi Society of Xi'an, as her first teacher and began studying the female (dan) art of Qinqiang. While following the artistic principles of Qinqiang she drew widely on the strengths of many schools and formed a distinctive performing style of her own. Her representative productions include Wang Baochuan, Zha Mei An (The Case of Executing Chen Shimei) and San Shang Qiao (Three Times onto the Bridge). In 2003 she published Sixty Years on the Stage.
Honors & Recognition
Female, Manchu ethnicity, born in March 1932 in Weinan County, Shaanxi Province; she died in June 2019. National representative bearer of Qinqiang Opera, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1991 she performed the Qinqiang piece Bei She (The Backbiting Tongue) at the Sun Cup National Traditional Opera Invitational Tournament of the five provinces and regions of northwest China and received a Special Honor Award. In 2005 she received the highest honor award of the Fourth Shaanxi Provincial Art Festival. She has long been devoted to training and coaching young actors.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Qinqiang Opera Ⅳ-16
- Qinqiang Opera Ⅳ-16
- Qinqiang Opera Ⅳ-16
- Qinqiang Opera Ⅳ-16
Profile
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