CIIC:Today's featured article/January 1, 2010
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Cheng Yanqiu (Chinese: 程砚秋), was born in Beijing on January 1, 1904. He shared the honor of being one of the Four Great Dan Actors with Mei Lanfang, Shang Xiaoyun and Xun Huisheng.
He began to learn Peking opera at the age of six, first learning wusheng (actor playing a martial role) from Rong Diexian, then huadan (a role for a vivacious maiden, a young woman with a frank and open personality, or a woman of questionable character) from Chen Tongyun, and qingyi (a role usually representing a middle-aged woman who always acts as a Mrs or Miss from a noble family) from Chen Xiaoyun. He also took Mei Lanfang as his tutor. (More ...)
