Shang Changrong

Biography

Shang Changrong is a Chinese Peking opera artist born in Beijing in 1940. He is the son of the renowned Peking opera artist Shang Xiaoyun. He studied Peking opera under masters such as Chen Furui and Hou Xirui. He worked with the Shaanxi Province Peking Opera Troupe in Xi'an from 1959 to 1988. Since 1988, he has been working with the Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe. In 2005, he was elected chairman of the China Theatre Association. He is considered one of the foremost performers of the "Jing" (painted face) role in Peking opera. He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Wenhua Performance Award and the Plum Blossom Award for Drama. He is the first dramatic actor to have won the Plum Blossom Award three times. In 2008, he was listed among the second batch of national-level representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage projects.