On January 9, 2017 (December 12, 2016 in the lunar calendar), Huang Xiaoci, a famous Peking Opera performing artist and second-time Plum Blossom Award winner, passed away. Huang Xiaoci, a famous Peking Opera performing artist and Plum Blossom Award winner, passed away due to illness on the afternoon of January 9, 2017 at the age of 73. Huang Xiaoci graduated from China Theater Academy in 1960 and entered the Peking Opera Theater of Jiangsu Province. He worked as a disciple of Peking Opera performing artist Du Jinfang. During his stage career, Huang Xiaoci formed his own performance style, and his plays and character are well-known in the circle. Representative plays include "Camel Xiangzi","Red Lingyan","Shilang Exploring Mother", etc. Today, the reporter interviewed Huang Xiaoci's old friends and apprentices. When the reporter insisted on rushing from his hospital bed to the rehearsal venue on a hot day, he was very sad because he had just visited Huang Xiaoci this afternoon. He said that Huang Xiaoci is a flag in the Jiangsu Peking Opera world and the first Erdu Plum winner in the Jiangsu Peking Opera world. Even after retirement, she still insisted on inheriting, leading apprentices, and passing on repertoire. She did a lot of work for the inheritance of Peking Opera. She was an artist with both morality and art. Wang Qun said that in June 2016, Huang Xiaoci was diagnosed with cancer and underwent surgery. In August, the youth version of "Hong Lingyan" of the Peking Opera Theater of Jiangsu Province Performing Arts Group began to rehearse. This play is Huang Xiaoci's masterpiece. At the National Peking Opera Festival in 1988, she became famous for her "Red Lingyan". She was praised by experts as "Biluochun in the Jiangnan Water Town" and evaluated her as "a major breakthrough in the danjiao performance form of Peking Opera." Therefore, the youth version was re-released, and her favorite student Gao Fei starred. As an artistic director, Huang Xiaoci attached great importance to this play. She rushed from her hospital bed to the rehearsal ground many times despite her illness. Ke Jun, general manager of Huang Xiaoci's Hu Niu Jiangsu Province Performing Arts Group, also recalled in an interview with reporters last night: "August and September were very hot in Nanjing. Considering Teacher Huang's health, everyone blocked her from coming to the rehearsal venue many times, but she insisted on coming. Teacher Huang came to the scene with hormones and painkillers, and worked together with the staff of the new edition of "Hong Lingyan" for 37 days. "Huang Xiaoci's painstaking efforts were not in vain. The youthful version of" Red Lingyan "was highly praised at the first Beijing-Kunming Heroes Conference in Jiangsu Province in early December 2016. Gao Fei also won the award, but at this time Huang Xiaoci's condition began to deteriorate. On December 19, 2016, Ke Jun and others accompanied provincial leaders to visit Huang Xiaoci in the ward." Teacher Huang knew that we were coming, so she specially combed her hair neatly and applied some lipstick. She hoped to maintain the beauty of an artist. She chatted with us, and the most talked about the inheritance of Peking Opera, but she also regretted that there were still several plays that had not been passed down. Ke Jun said sadly that a strong cultural province is reflected in individuals and operas, and she has made a lot of contributions to it. Unique innovation brings Peking Opera back to life. In addition to "Red Lingyan", many people also praise Hu Niu in "Camel Xiangzi" played by Huang Xiaoci. What is even more admirable is her unique innovation. It is understood that in order to study Hu Niu and innovate the performance form of Peking Opera, she watched Lao She's "Camel Xiangzi" eight times to touch Hu Niu in literature and find Hu Niu on the Peking Opera stage to capture the character's soul and image, figure out how to use Peking Opera stylization, and learn from other artistic techniques to create a lifelike image of Hu Niu. She believes that no matter how fierce Hu Niu is, she is still a girl, and no matter how fierce she is, she is still a woman. Only by performing with a special femininity can we capture Xiangzi, move the audience, and write new aesthetic creations into new Peking Opera classics. Her old friends in the Peking Opera industry in Jiangsu told reporters that Huang Xiaoci was very clearly aware that the times were advancing and if he did not innovate, he would lose his audience. Once the audience is lost, the drama will die. While creating each character, Huang Xiaoci pays more attention to activating the aging cells of Peking Opera dramas, making Peking Opera younger again, blooming with the brilliance of the times, and opening up the future of Peking Opera. I never charge for accepting apprentices and treat them like girlfriends."I have only done one thing in my life, which is to love Peking Opera, learn Peking Opera, perform Peking Opera, and spread Peking Opera." Huang Xiaoci often puts this sentence on his lips. Many people charge for accepting apprentices and guiding students, or at least have a formal apprenticeship ceremony, but Huang Xiaoci does not pay attention to this. As long as she likes a good seedling, she will accept it at a word and never take a penny from her apprentice. When Huang Xiaoci's beloved apprentice Gao Fei was interviewed by reporters, Teacher Huang's relationship with his students was both teachers and students, mother and daughter, and also like girlfriends."She often taught us: Artists are poor, don't think about making big money, we want to gain a sense of artistic honor and satisfaction." Gao Fei said that Teacher Huang and his apprentices talked about opera and singing as soon as they met. She went to the hospital to see Teacher Huang. As soon as she entered the door, Teacher Huang still shouted: Fei 'er, please walk that catwalk for me first. The reporter learned that Huang Xiaoci personally tutored and cultivated countless apprentices and brought out many young Peking Opera talents. Under her training, the "Huang Xiaoci Children's Peking Opera Art Troupe" of Suqian No. 1 Experimental Primary School has produced talented people and achieved fruitful results, and has won many national and provincial Peking Opera awards.