# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cheng-yanqiu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:53:20.491Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cheng-yanqiu"
name: "Cheng Yanqiu"
slug: "cheng-yanqiu"
description: "Cheng Yanqiu was a Chinese Peking opera singer of Manchu descent. He is remembered as one of the 20th-century's four greatest male dan actors alongside Mei Lanfang, Shang Xiaoyun, and Xun Huisheng. He specialized in the qingyi role and founded the Cheng style (程派) of opera singing and acting. Some representative plays of the Cheng style repertoire include The Jewelry Purse, Tears in the Barren Mountain, and Blue Frost Sword (1924)."
tagline: "Chinese opera singer (1904-1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E6%A2%85%E5%85%B0%E8%8A%B3%E4%B8%8E%E7%A8%8B%E7%A0%9A%E7%A7%8B.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1904-01-01"
deathDate: "1958-03-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.381609333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  220
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fac96504-6aea-4170-9e8d-be1259e17e6d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%AC_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "تشنج يانكيو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Yanqiu"
    title: "Cheng Yanqiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Yanqiu"
    title: "Cheng Yanqiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%89%D5%A5%D5%B6_%D5%85%D5%A1%D5%B6%D6%81%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82"
    title: "Չեն Յանցյու"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D1%8D%D0%BD_%D0%AF%D0%BD%D1%8C%D1%86%D1%8E"
    title: "Чэн Яньцю"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B2%AD%EC%98%8C%EC%B9%98%EC%9A%B0"
    title: "청옌치우"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D1%8D%D0%BD_%D0%AF%D0%BD%D1%8C%D1%86%D1%8E"
    title: "Чэн Яньцю"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A8%8B%E7%A0%9A%E7%A7%8B"
    title: "程砚秋"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1045300"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3830360"
    title: "Cheng Yanqiu"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump