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Yuan Kuocheng
Pingshu storyteller from a family of storytellers, best known for his radio Romance of the Three Kingdoms and counted among the four great pingshu masters.
Mural of the cultural record “Pingshu and Pinghua Storytelling”, which this person is tied to.
- Roles
- Stage Performers
Yuan Kuocheng, whose family came from Yingkou, Liaoning, was born in Tianjin in 1929 into a storytelling family: his uncles Yuan Jieting and Yuan Jieying and his father Yuan Jiewu were known as the Three Yuan Masters. Trained by his father, he first performed in Beijing at fourteen, worked in Tangshan, Tianjin, Harbin and Yingkou, and made his name at eighteen with Twelve Golden Darts and Cases of Lord Shi. His repertoire includes Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Marshes of Liangshan, Steel Forged in Fire and Investiture of the Gods, and his 1980s radio Three Kingdoms became a classic. He died in Beijing on 2 March 2015, aged eighty-six.
Life and times
Dates 1929 CE–2015 CE