金炳昶

简介

Jin Bingchang was born in 1931 in Beiping (present-day Beijing), to a merchant father. As a child, he listened to xiangsheng (comic dialogue) at famous venues such as Qiming Tea House and Tianqiao. He enrolled in North China People's Revolutionary University, and in 1950 joined the People's Liberation Army due to the outbreak of the Korean War. He later trained in the Yingkou Song and Dance Trou Shenyang Quyi Troupe. In 1957, he became a disciple of master Yang Haiquan along with several colleagues. When the Cultural Revolution began in 1966, he was sent to a clothing factory in Shenyang, but returned to the Shenyang Quyi Troupe after that period ended. He collaborated with numerous partners including Yang Zhenhua, Yu Qi, Chang Peiye, Jia Chengbo, Wang Ping, and Sun Wei. Gong Hanlin's wife Jin Zhu was one of his disciples. He married Fan Lanying in 1957, herself a disciple of Mei Haiquan; she developed schizophrenia in 1966 due to chronic overwork and died of colon cancer in 2002. Jin Bingchang passed away on January 5, 2013, from heart failure at Shenyang Military Region General Hospital.