Pingju Opera
01 · Historical Records
As early as the 1920s the Pingju founder Cheng Zhaocai created and performed such pieces based on local news as Yang Sanjie Gao Zhuang, Hei Mao Gao Zhuang, Qiangbi Luo Long, Qiangbi Luo Hu and An Jung-geun Ci Ito Hirobumi. In 1928 Li Jinshun, a Pingju master hailed as a pearl of “Fengtian luozi”, created and performed the costume play Ai Guo Jiao, essentially establishing Pingju's strength in modern repertory. After 1949 Pingju performed a great many modern plays, such as Liu Qiao'er, Xiao Nü Xu, Xiao Erhei Jiehun, Liu Jiemei, Duo Yin and Xiangyang Shangdian, showing different sides of life in different historical periods of socialist construction and celebrating new people and deeds. Drawing on the Heilongjiang volume of the Annals of Chinese Xiqu, Pingju entered Heilongjiang in the 1920s and Li Jinshun and others advanced its modern-drama tradition through the costume play Ai Guo Jiao; after 1949 Heilongjiang Pingju staged many modern plays reflecting the social life of each period.
02 · Core Techniques & Process
Pingju is one of the local genres with considerable influence in China, and Heilongjiang is fertile ground for its development. From the genre's earliest days through a century of history many Pingju masters performed across Heilongjiang, and after Liberation Heilongjiang produced many more, such as Liu Xiaolou, Xi Cailing, Wu Sufang and Bi Yanyan. A talent for portraying real life is a tradition of Pingju.
Ai Guo Jiao (The Patriotic Beauty)
A costume play created and performed in 1928 by the Pingju master Li Jinshun, essentially establishing the genre's strength in modern repertory.
03 · Regional Records & Related Items
Heilongjiang is an important area of Pingju's development, and such masters as Liu Xiaolou, Xi Cailing, Wu Sufang and Bi Yanyan all performed or grew up there; the Heilongjiang Provincial Pingju Theatre is an important professional performing body and transmission base, touring within and beyond the province for many years.
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04 · Cultural Value & Contemporary Safeguarding
The Heilongjiang Provincial Pingju Theatre is an important professional performing body and transmission base for Pingju. Wang Xiangyang (as recorded in the official dossier of an associated inheritor): female, Han, born in December 1970 in Suihua, Heilongjiang. A national first-grade actor and an expert receiving a special government allowance from the State Council. From a Pingju art family, she was steeped in the art from childhood; in 1989 she came to notice at the national Pingju revival exchange organised by the Ministry of Culture. Entering the Heilongjiang Provincial Pingju Theatre in 1988, she has starred in such plays as Hua Wei Mei, Bai She Zhuan, Xi Que Deng Zhi, Shan Xiu and Ming Yue Zhao Ren Lai. She is a representative inheritor of Pingju in the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects, won the seventeenth China Drama Plum Blossom Award and several national outstanding performance awards, and was named a Ministry of Culture outstanding expert in 2006. Pingju's tradition of portraying real life has continued in Heilongjiang, and its modern repertory offers a sample for studying the relation between opera and contemporary society; the Heilongjiang Provincial Pingju Art Centre sustains the genre through revivals and talent training.
05 · Associated Representative Bearers
Representative bearers recorded under this item, organized by national nomination batch:
- Liu Xiurong 02-0558
- Hong Ying 02-0559
- Feng Yuping 02-0560
- Xiaojunting 02-0561
- Zhou Dan 03-1035
- Liu Ping 03-1036
- Gu Wenyue 03-1037
- Chen Peihua 03-1038
- Zhang Junling 04-1640
- Yuan Shumei 04-1641
- Lihongxia 04-1642
- Cengzhaojuan 05-2357
- Wang Guanli 05-2358
- Luo Huiqin 05-2359
- Wang Xiangyang 05-2360
- Ma Huimin
- Li Weiquan
06 · Authoritative Sources & Bibliography
Sources
China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (ihchina.cn)
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