Zhang Junqiu Position And Contribution To The Female Roles In Peking Opera Singing In

Zhang Junqiu was one of the most famous Beijing opera performers after four Female Leading Roles in20th century in china. One of the shining achievements in his art career is his way of singing Operas. Zhang inherited his predecessors’artistic thoughts and achievements and absorbed the advantages widely from other art forms, facilitating his own singing style. His fluent and attractive singing intonation has great, profound impact in and out of the professional circle.The thesis demonstrates Zhang’s status and historical contributions in the fields of female leading roles in Beijing Opera as following:first of all, through pondering on the development of the singing methods of the female leading roles in Beijing Opera, Zhang identified a clear forming and developing tracks of the female leading roles in Beijing Opera; secondly,after analyzing and introducing some female leading predecessors in Beijing Opera, the writer attempts to clarify Zhang’s detailed artistic achievements in renewing Beijing Opera. In the preface of the thesis, briefs in the importance of singing methods in the development of the opera and the significance of studying the Zhang’s singing art are cautiously highlighted, while the conclusion of the thesis focuses on far-reaching influences which Zhang’s singing art has brought to the development of the female leading roles in Beijing Opera further.