Yan Fengying

Also known as Childhood name Hongliu · Also known as Daifeng

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.