Ten Famous Peking Opera Styles

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MEI Style
MEI Style was recognized as MEI Style playing style. MEI Lan-Fang rediscovered many long-neglected theatrical masterpieces and brought them back on stage with his enforcements. He was credited with having revived the traditional Chinese arts of dancing and pantomime.

 

CHEN Style
 CHEN Style was recognized as Chen Yanqiu playing style.Chen Yanqiu,a Qing Yi player,was born in 1904 and died in 1958. His voice became narrow and muffled when he was in his teen. So his success attributed to his talent and consistent efforts. Most of his plays were about tragedies and the roles he took were sorrowsome.

 

SHANG Style
Shang Xiaoyun, the founder of this style, had a very good skill of acrobat and dance. His performing style was highly regarded and famed as SHANG Style. His famous plays include "Mad after Lost Her Son", "Liang Hongyu" etc. Shang was also dedicated in training new players. He founded the "Rong Chun Opera School".

 

XUN Style
Xun Huisheng, a Qing Yi and Hua Dan player and his performing style was entitled XUN Style. He, along with MEI, SHANG and CHEN, is regarded as one of the Four Great Female Role Players.

 

ZHANG Style
Zhang Junqiu, a female role Qing Yi performer. His style is recognized as ZHANG Style. His plays include " River-Facing Paguda", "Meeting by poem" etc. He was regarded the number one of the Four Junior Great Female Role Players.

 

MA Style
MA Lian-Liang , a male role Lao Sheng player and the founder of the MA Style. He formed his own style with characters of sweet, fluent and natural, which is best known as MA style.

 

TAN Style
TAN Xin-Pei, a male role Lao Sheng player and the founder of TAN Style. He had a sounding reputation. It is said the all Lao Sheng players at his time were following his styles. The imitation of his arias could be heard across the street everywhere.


QI Style
Zhou Xifang, a Lao Sheng player and the founder of the QI Style. His stage name is Unicorn Boy Qi Ling Tong, which also homonymly means seven-year-old.

 

YAN Style
Yan Jupeng, a Lao Sheng player and the founder of YAN Style. He had been a famous Beijing Opera amateur before he formally became an opera actor. He followed TAN Xin-Pei and developed his own singing style which enphasizes the tones and his arias are mild and sweet.

 

QIU Style
Qiu Shengrong, a great Jing player and the founder of QIU Style. His father was a famous Jing player who had a major influence on his opera career.He entered the famous opera school of "Fu Lian Cheng". He leared from a variety of players including Lao Sheng players and applied into his performance and introduced many reforms into Jing arias and actings.

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