Cheng Yuying
Lineage & School of Heritage
At the age of sixteen, with her teacher's help, she reformed the conventional melodic line of Jinju, na yi yi ya hai, and created the hai hai vocal style, which uses the single syllable hai. She established it formally and codified it in performance, giving the Cheng school its distinctive vocal-system characteristics.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
At ten she took the Jinju performer Gao Wenhan as her teacher, first specialising in the bearded male (xusheng) role and later changing to the principal female (qingyi) role. After the founding of the People's Republic of China she long led a troupe on tour, travelling throughout Shanxi and indeed the whole country. Her representative works include Hu Die Bei (The Butterfly Cup), Wu Jia Po (The Wu Family Slope), Huo Yan Ju (The Flame-Hued Colt), Shuang Guan Gao (Two Imperial Honors), Nv Zhong Xiao (Female Filial Piety), Qing Feng Ting (The Pavilion of Pure Wind), Zou Shan (Crossing the Mountain) and Qing Tan (The Quest of Love).
Honors & Recognition
Female, Han ethnicity, born in November 1920 in Pingyao County, Shanxi Province; she died in May 2015. National representative bearer of Jinju (Shanxi Opera), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. For many years she has been dedicated to training Jinju talent and has successively trained three generations of inheritors of Cheng school art, including Wang Aiai, Wang Wanmei, Hou Yulan, Du Meili and Li Guilian.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Jinju (Shanxi Opera) Ⅳ-18
- Jinju (Shanxi Opera) Ⅳ-18
- Jinju (Shanxi Opera) Ⅳ-18
- Jinju (Shanxi Opera) Ⅳ-18
- Jinju (Shanxi Opera) Ⅳ-18
- Jinju (Shanxi Opera) Ⅳ-18
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