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Yan Fengying
Huangmei opera dan performer of the Yan school, who played the Seventh Fairy in the film The Fairy Couple and starred in The Female Consort Prince
Backstage of a theatre troupe, an open trunk spills embroidered red and blue robes, one worked with a phoenix, beneath a jewelled headdress with long plumes; a mirror stand, a stool and a row of painted drums stand beside it, with a red curtain hanging at the right.
Also known as Childhood name Hongliu · Also known as Daifeng
- Roles
- Stage Performers
Yan Fengying, whose childhood name was Hongliu, came from a Tongcheng family in Anhui and was born in 1930. As a girl she learned Huangmei tunes from Yan Yungao, took the name Fengying after a performance in Anqing in 1946, and later also studied Peking opera and Kunqu. In 1954 she played the Seventh Fairy when The Fairy Couple was performed at the East China opera festival, and in 1955 the Shanghai Film Studio filmed the play. She went on to star as Feng Suzhen in the Huangmei opera film The Female Consort Prince (1959) and as the Weaver Girl in The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl (1963). Her singing is known as the Yan school. She died in Hefei in April 1968.
Life and times
Dates 1930 CE–1968 CE