He is a protege of Yan Zhensu, the master of the harlequin of Shaanxi Opera. He is smart and studious, and has excellent understanding and talent for comedy. The performance is natural and generous, standardized and exquisite, ugly but not vulgar, and quite connotative. In particular, the language is humorous, intriguing, funny and interesting, which makes people never tire of watching it.
Over the past 30 years, he has created different types of comedy images in more than 40 traditional and modern dramas, such as Eight Clothes, Defending China, Storm under the Tree and so on, which are deeply loved by the northwest audience.
Qiao Dafang, a descendant of the harlequin in Shaanxi Opera, not only strives for perfection in performance, but also devotes himself to creating more than 30 harlequin dramas, comedy sketches and humorous allegro. These works are diverse in form, different in style, wide in subject matter, ingenious in conception, ideological, artistic and interesting.
Therefore, he wrote, directed and performed nine plays and sketches, such as Poor Optimism and Rescue in the Wilderness, and won the special prize and the first prize of the provincial concert (tune) respectively. Many sketches are often broadcast on CCTV and provincial TV stations and widely circulated in the northwest. Wei Laizi, the villain he played in Blessing, the floor rat portrayed in Fifteen Passes, and the characters in Yang, Teaching, Playing Casserole, and Poor Optimism all have distinct personalities and humorous language, and they can never get tired of watching their performances.
Qiao Dafang has a wide variety of operas and is good at modern and traditional operas. No matter how ugly the shamao, clown and colorful Dan are, he can handle it with ease. Among them, the most representative are the beggar's benevolence and righteousness in Eight Clothes and Zhao Fei in Loyalty and Protecting the Country. Qiao Dafang not only plays well, but also writes well. He has been a member of the Provincial Writers Association for a long time.
He has created more than 30 comedies, including clown dramas such as Touch the Clock to Know the Thief, Laizi to Save Aunt, and comic sketches such as Selling, Joe's Clever Break of Hearts, as well as humorous allegro such as Quitting Smoking, Sweeping the Yellow, Beggars and Ode to the Bell Tower.
Among them, "Father and Son", "Five Sons Bury Father", "Laozi and Son" and other "father and son series" comedy sketches satirize the unworthy descendants with exaggerated language and deeply call for traditional virtues.