Obituary: Shan Tianfang, China's beloved storyteller

Shan Chuanzhong, better known by his stage name Shan Tianfang, was a main type of the conventional Chinese execution artistic expression pingshu, which interprets as "narrating".

He has kicked the bucket matured 84 following a long illness.Pingshu, otherwise called "shoushu" and "pinghua", dates from the Song Dynasty (AD960-1279), when entertainers would engage villagers by recounting stories in an especially emotive style.

It remains especially prevalent in north-eastern China. Entertainers wear conventional dress and utilize exceptionally fundamental props - frequently a collapsed fan and a hammer. The fan is utilized to show a character's physical developments, such as drawing a sword, or hitting something. The hammer is beat for sensational impact to show a snapshot of high dramatization.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-45589713
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