Liang Weiling was born in August 1960 to a family of cadres in Baoding, Hebei Province. Because her parents loved Peking Opera and had a good friend surnamed Wang working in the Provincial Peking Opera Theater, the two families' radios often played Peking Opera singing. Liang Weiling grew up listening to "The Tale of the Red Lanterns" either in her own home or in Wang's home, "Shajiabang". As a result, she became obsessed with Peking Opera. A little older, she went to the theater under the leadership of adults. Sometimes also boldly ran to the backstage of the Provincial Peking Opera Theater to touch the helmet, wearing a head flower, babbling and singing a section. I did not want her singing to be praised by the adults: "This little girl looks so handsome, and she will be a good actor in the future." The adults' encouragement made her perform even more vigorously. As a result, she recognized in her young heart that she would definitely become a Peking Opera actress when she grew up. Since then, she could be heard singing Peking Opera on her way to school or playing with children.
In 1976, when she was already in her first year of high school, she insisted on studying opera. At the suggestion of her uncle Wang, she was admitted to the Hebei Provincial Art School, where she studied under Qilanqiu, Luo Huilan, Li Yanqiu, He Xunying and many other famous artists, and systematically learned the art of Peking Opera performance. She successively studied and performed in "Wangjiang Pavilion", "Four Langs Visiting Mother", "Dragon and Phoenix", "Farewell My Concubine", "Red Mane and Strong Horses", "Yutang Chun", "Cosmic Front", etc. Under the guidance of the famous artists, she carved her own style of acting. Under the guidance of famous artists, she studied hard and made outstanding achievements, which attracted wide attention. The Hebei Daily published an article: "Liang Weiling, with her handsome costume, sweet voice and standardized performance, is an actress with great prospects for development." Hebei Television specially recorded her starring role in "Phoenix Returns the Nest" and other dramas, which were broadcasted many times and received favorable reviews. Liang Weiling graduated with honors in 1981 and was assigned to the Hebei Provincial Peking Opera House. At that time, a group of old artists of the theater, such as Luo Huilan, Liang Qingyun and An Rongqing, were in their middle age and riding the stage. According to the usual practice, the new students can not take their turn in the theater is reasonable, but many young people do not know what to do all day long whining, there are many people can not keep the poverty of the sea business or change their profession to do other industries. When someone asked Liang Weiling how you don't get upset, she said: "What we learned in school is just a fur, from the requirements are still far from it. Now teachers are skillful in acting, watching them perform is learning." As a result, she is always seen watching the theater with rapt attention at every performance.
Because most of the students at the art school learned the main roles, they were reluctant to come to the troupe for minor roles such as courtesans or dragonets. The comrades in charge of assigning roles often had problems with this, and even quarreled. But Liang Weiling never had a bad time. She thinks: the opportunity to use the station courtesan can be close to see the teacher performance, which is a stage practice, but also a good way to observe, why not happy? For this reason, the theater leadership has repeatedly praised her in the General Assembly. In 1990, the courage to forge ahead through her election to take up the position of director of the second troupe of the Hebei Provincial Peking Opera House. In the Liang family she is the youngest golden girl, parents love like a jewel in the palm of your hand, sisters also take her as a baby. In the art school she is a good student, the leadership of the teachers are also favored. Since childhood, even a group leader has not been she became the head of a group. And dozens of old and young people and complicated work, she has to contact the performance, but also to create and rehearse new plays, but also to complete the contract indicators. She not only has to take care of the old comrades, but also to cultivate young comrades, but also to care about the stage of the most tired of the middle-aged comrades, from not know worried about her a time to taste the taste of sorrow.
Once the troupe performed in a village in Li County, after the morning show, we could not take a break and busy unloading the stage, beat the luggage, ready to rush to the next performance point, but the scheduled car did not come. Liang Weiling was afraid of missing the evening performance, anxious to yell. The village cadres saw her that eager look, and with great difficulty to mobilize a few tractor drivers. When a day without food and drink actors on the wobbly walking tractor, bumpy in the uneven dirt road, the group was angry. Just arrived at the destination, the car did not stop, people will be Liang Weiling surrounded in the middle of the question and ask the mouths of people yelling: "chief, we suffer this is what crime? Do not act, quickly send us home." In the face of the crowd, usually do not like to shed tears of her, at this time dropped tears of aggression. She sobbed and said to everyone, "It's because I didn't do my job well, the driver temporarily took the job that earns more money and left us behind, so the original contacted car didn't arrive. It's me who is sorry for making you all suffer. Now eager to see the theater audience have arrived, do not act against the folks who came from more than ten miles away?" Her touching words touched everyone's heart, and the people who were angry just now turned around and comforted her: "Weiling, you are not responsible for missing the bus, don't be sad, the play will go on as usual." At this point, Weiling wiped her tears while arching her hand and said, "Thank you all for your support." And so the gongs and drums of the show resounded again.
During her tenure as a troupe leader, Liang Weiling always put social benefits first. In order to cooperate with the anti-vice and anti-gambling activities, the second troupe created and rehearsed a modern Peking Opera, "Gambling Sea of Love". After the performance was well received, all over the competition to invite the troupe to perform. Once the troupe in Luancheng County, Suqiu village performance of this drama. Appeared father led son, wife coaxed husband, help the old and young to come to see the scene of the play, the square at once came to tens of thousands of viewers. Liang Weiling played the role of Xiaofang, the wife of the gambler Shu Guang in the play. There are heavy bicycle dances and tear-jerking choruses in the play. Her emotional performance and emotional singing cried out the harm of gambling. She complains about the disasters that gambling brings to families and the harm it causes to society. The audience can not help but associate their own experience and shed tears, the stage cried into a piece. After the play was over, an old lady took the actors by the hand and asked, "Can you play it again so that my son, who loves to play with money, can be educated again." A village cadre said gratefully, "Your anti-gambling play is more useful than how much work we have done." Liang Weiling was shocked by this performance, and she did not expect a performance to have such a great effect. She was determined to lead the troupe well and offer the best plays to the audience.
In 1998, the theater created and rehearsed a new historical drama called "Long Farewell". Liang Weiling played the lead role of Cai Wenji in the play. She was always the first to arrive at rehearsals and the last to leave the troupe. When it was cold, she would put her coat on other people's shoulders; when it was hot, she would buy ice-cream out of her own pocket to relieve the heat. Which comrade is sick, she will take the time to see; which comrade is in a bad mood, she will take the time to talk to him. Actors feel that there is a harmonious family atmosphere in this collective, and there is a kind of comradeship and brotherhood between people. Due to the unity and hard work of all colleagues, the play was successfully performed and won the Outstanding Play Award at the Fifth Hebei Provincial Drama Festival, and Liang Weiling was awarded the Outstanding Performance Award. in November 1999, the play was reported to Beijing as an outstanding play in Hebei Province, and won the unanimous praise of the experts and the audience in the capital. Liang Weiling also won the Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Drama with this play and a traditional opera. Hebei Provincial Peking Opera Theater famous actor Zhang Yanling, with its handsome costume, loud voice, and singing, both martial arts and artistic skills, won the 14th Chinese drama "plum blossom award", and became the province's Peking Opera sector, the first "plum blossom award" of the actor, affectionately known as the "plum blossom award". The actor, affectionately known as the "Peking Opera Plum".
Zhang Yanling graduated from Hebei Provincial Art School in 1974, majoring in Peking Opera performance, under the tutelage of Song Dezhu, Li Yanqiu, Jin Xueqin, Luo Huilan, Zhou Changyun, etc., the work of the sword horse Dan, flower Dan. the early 1990s, in the "Provincial Peking" two troupes contracted to go out for performances, but at her own expense to the Chinese Academy of Opera, further studies, and Li Jinhong, who was the first to win the "Plum Blossom Prize". In the early 1990s, when the two troupes of "Provincial Beijing" were contracted to go out to perform, she went to the Chinese Academy of Opera at her own expense for further study, and was instructed by Li Jinhong, Xie Ruiqing, and other famous masters, which laid a solid foundation for the future path of the art. In 1992, she participated in the National Peking Opera Youth Troupe New Repertoire Competition organized by the Ministry of Culture with "Chang'e Runs to the Moon", and won the Excellence Award for the leading role among 28 leading roles, and in 1997 she was awarded the 14th Plum Blossom Prize for Chinese Drama with "Spilling Blood in the Hall of Scripture", "The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea", and "Zhaojun Goes Out of the Seaside".
After winning the award, Zhang Yanling took Liu Xiurong, a renowned performing artist from the Chinese Academy of Opera, as her teacher, hoping that she would be able to go to the next level in her art. Ms. Liu Xiurong taught her and personally taught such classic plays as Mu Guiying Breaks Hongzhou and The Legend of the White Snake, and to this day, Zhang Yanling still uses Mu Guiying Breaks Hongzhou as her representative play.
In October 2000, the Provincial Peking Opera Theater went to Beijing Chang'an Grand Theater to perform its representative play "The Eight Immortals Cross the Sea". In 20 days, Zhang Yanling with her solid, deep basic skills for 18 shows, every show, won the love of many domestic and foreign audiences. During this year's Spring Festival, "Provincial Beijing" and in the capital of the temple art reproduced the ancient ritual worship ceremony, Zhang Yanling played the bridal nuptials exquisitely, so that the audience in the capital a refreshing. 1989, Zhang Yanling in a performance in the neck injury, a few years has not been healed, but she still insisted on learning the opera every day, practicing up to eight or nine hours. But she still insisted on studying and practicing up to eight or nine hours a day. She hoped to create new images as her acting skills matured. "How can you get the fragrance of plum blossoms if you don't go through a lot of cold?". Liang Weiling's dignified and delicate performance, not only won her the 17th Chinese Drama "Plum Blossom Award", but also made Chen Miaochang, Cai Wenji, Bai Suzhen, and other female figures in the Peking Opera art means of "packaging", glowing with the Oriental art of moving luster. The Peking Opera is a great example of the art of Peking Opera.
Liang Weiling was admitted to the Peking Opera class of the Hebei Provincial Art School in 1976 with high honors, and entered the Hebei Provincial Peking Opera Troupe in 1981, where she studied under the renowned Peking Opera artist Luo Huilan, and received the true transmission of the "Mei School" of art. Humble and studious, she is particularly serious in acting. When she played the leading roles, she was fully concentrated; when she played the supporting roles, she was meticulous. The famous plays of the "Mei School", such as "Autumn River", "Qin Xianglian", "Xi Shi", "Si Fan", "Wu Jia Po", etc., were vividly portrayed by her. Beijing opera experts once praised her performance of "Wujiapo" as a great success, and said, "There is no Qingyi like her in Beijing.
In the early 1990s, Liang Weiling starred in the Peking Opera drama "Snow Spring", which was well received and won the Hebei Provincial TV Drama "Pema Prize". 1990 Liang Weiling rehearsed a new drama "Gambling Sea", in which she portrayed the protagonist Xiaofang as a flesh-and-blood character who was so real that she made a number of appearances in the theater, including a wife pulling her husband, a mother bringing her husband and a mother's wife to the theater, a wife who was so beautiful that she had to be a woman. Wives pulling their husbands and mothers bringing their sons to watch the troupe's performances. The play was performed more than 100 times in different cities of the province, and soon it was adapted into an opera and TV drama, renamed as "Bitter Fruit", which was broadcasted by the CCTV and Hebei TV, which had a strong reaction and won the 7th National Opera and TV Drama "Progressive Award". In the play "Long Farewell Fugue" starring Liang Weiling, she reveals the emotional changes of Cai Wenji with her euphemistic, delicate and layered performance. The play went to Beijing to participate in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the country's tribute performances, in 2000 won the Hebei Province "Five One" Project Award.