Cheng Yanqiu was a Chinese Peking opera singer of Manchu descent who lived from 1 January 1904 to 9 March 1958. He is remembered as one of the twentieth century's Four Great Dan actors, alongside Mei Lanfang, Shang Xiaoyun and Xun Huisheng, specialized in the qingyi role, and founded the Cheng style of opera singing and acting; representative plays of the Cheng style repertoire include The Jewelry Purse, Tears in the Barren Mountain and Blue Frost Sword.
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He is remembered as one of the 20th-century's four greatest male dan actors alongside Mei Lanfang, Shang Xiaoyun, and Xun Huisheng.
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In 1922, the 18 year old Cheng put on his stage debut in Beijing and Shanghai as the leading opera actor.
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