Fragrant jade is always there.

On June 1, 2004, Chang Xiangyu, the famous Henan Opera performing arts master, left the Liyuan Garden forever, but her artistic life of "playing as big as the sky" will always move the hundreds of millions of theater fans who loved her. .

Chang Xiangyu, whose real name was Zhang Miaoling, was born in a poor family in Gongyi, Henan Province in 1923. In order not to be a child bride, she started to learn art from her father at the age of 9, and developed the skill of "speaking hard but not dead, and light but not floating". A masterpiece.

In her long artistic career, she has learned from the best of many schools of thought and integrated the best of Henan opera into one. Moreover, the vocal skills of Henan Opera, Yue Diao, Peking Opera, Kun Opera, Hebei Bangzi and Henan Zhuizi and other folk arts have been widely adopted, forming a Changpai art that is loved by the masses.

Being a good person comes first when singing opera. Without virtue and art, one cannot establish oneself.

Being both morally and artistically is Chang Xiangyu’s lifelong pursuit.

Chinese opera art has experienced a transformation from tradition to modernity in the last century. Chang Xiangyu's "Chang School Art" has followed the development of the times and become one of the representatives of the new era and new culture.

Chang Xiangyu, with his eclectic and innovative inheritance and development, in the history of contemporary Henan opera art, this people's artist who pursues "the opera is bigger than the sky", uses his own works and actions to The writing is full of color.