三界名伶童芷苓

A Famous Artist Tong Zhiling

童芷苓为一代京剧名家,身为荀派传人却师法多门,梅尚程荀皆善,凭借《大劈棺》和《纺棉花》两出戏唱红了上海滩,抗战后定居上海。鲜为人知的是,她在沪定居后,还参演过多部话剧和电影,成为当时著名的横跨戏曲、电影和话剧三界的名伶。

As a prominent Peking Opera artist,Tong Zhiling was a successor of the Xun School but also learned from many other Schools,being skillful at the Schools of Mei,Shang,Cheng and Xun.With two plays Chopping up the Coffin and Spinning Cotton,Tong became popular throughout Shanghai and later settled in Shanghai after the Anti-Japanese War.What is rarely known by people is that after her settlement,she also acted in numbers of stage plays and films,becoming a renowned artist in the circles of Chinese opera,film and stage play at the time.