Yang Chunxia

Biography

Yang Chunxia is a Chinese Peking opera actress and film/television actress, born in 1943 in Shanghai, with ancestral roots in Ningbo, Zhejiang. She specializes in the dan (female) role in Peking opera. She graduated from the Shanghai Theatre School, where she initially studied Kunqu opera before switching to Peking opera. In 1983, she was invited to perform in a month-long Peking opera and music concert series in Shenyang alongside prominent artists such as Li Weikang, Geng Yichang, and Wang Jinghua. In 1971, she was transferred to the model opera杜鹃山 troupe to play the role of Party representative Ke Xiang, and also starred in the color film version of the opera. In 1986, she appeared in the television series西游记 in the famous role of the White Bone Demon (Bai Gu Jing). Her husband is Lin Xintao, a Peking opera qin player and composer. She received the 6th China Theatre Plum Blossom Award in 1989, one of the highest honors in Chinese Peking opera.