{"id":14141,"date":"2019-11-21T19:01:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T19:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/chinese-opera-artists-zhong-guo-xi-qu-11-master-of-kunqu-yu-zhenfei\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T19:01:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T19:01:37","slug":"chinese-opera-artists-zhong-guo-xi-qu-11-master-of-kunqu-yu-zhenfei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/chinese-opera-artists-zhong-guo-xi-qu-11-master-of-kunqu-yu-zhenfei\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Opera Artists \u4e2d\u56fd\u620f\u66f2 11 Master of Kunqu: Yu Zhenfei"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"470\" height=\"352\" src=\"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191122_5dd7c8260e298.jpg\" style=\"filter:blendTrans(Duration=1);\" alt=\"Chinese Opera Artists \u4e2d\u56fd\u620f\u66f2 11 Master of Kunqu: Yu Zhenfei\" \/><\/p>\n<p>  <span>  <\/p>\n<p>Kunqu first appeared in the late Yuan Dynasty  (1271-1368), some 600 years ago, in the lower Yangtze Valley. It was  named after its birth place, Kunshan, near the city of Suzhou in today&#8217;s  Jiangsu Province.<\/p>\n<p>The new opera form quickly gained popularity, and by the 16th  century, the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), it had spread across the country.  There are two schools of Kunqu &#8211; the Southern Kun, which is prevalent  in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and the Northern Kun, prevailing  throughout north China.<\/p>\n<p>Yu Zhenfei, born in Songjiang (present-day Shanghai), was the  best-known maestro of Kunqu in the first half of the 20th century. His  artistry in Kunqu is comparable to that of the famed Mei Lanfang in  Peking Opera. Yu Zhenfei himself attributed much of his success to his  thorough study and appreciation of classical literature.<\/p>\n<p>Yu began to learn Kunqu at the age of six from his father who was  then a Kunqu actor. Yu Zhenfei is not only good at Kunqu but also at  Peking Opera, and at the age of 14, he made his debut as Xiaosheng.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1940s, he went to Hong Kong to perform. It was in 1957 that he  returned to Shanghai and became the head master of Shanghai Drama  School.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2125774053\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kunqu first appeared in the late Yuan Dynasty  (1271-1368), some 600 years ago, in the lower Yangtze Valley. It was  named after its birth place, Kunshan, near the city of Suzhou in today&#8217;s  Jiangsu Province.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2860],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-14141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-opera","tag-chinese-opera"],"views":422,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}