Zhong Yuwen
Lineage & School of Heritage
From the 1970s he studied under Nie Zegao, an artist of Daba gaozhuang, learning the skills of making up the gaozhuang girls, binding them onto the frame, posing them and designing the head coverings.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of the Han ethnic group, born in September 1940 in Xingwen County, Sichuan Province. He is able to direct the making of gaozhuang apparatus, costumes, head coverings and props, to apply make-up, bind the performers and erect the gaozhuang according to the repertoire, and to direct Daba gaozhuang performances independently. He has taken an active part in creating repertoire for Daba gaozhuang; the pieces he choreographed, such as Shui Man Jinshan Si (The Flooding of the Jinshan Temple), Mu Guiying Gua Shuai (Mu Guiying Takes Command) and Fu Rong Hua Xian (The Hibiscus Fairy), together with Ha San Mei Chu Zheng (Third Sister Ha Goes to War) and Lu Sheng Lian Ge (Love Song of the Lusheng), which he led in creating and which reflect the Bo and Miao culture of Xingwen, have become fine works of Daba gaozhuang.
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Taige (Xinzi, Tiezhi and Piaose) (Daba Gaozhuang), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 2008, Ha San Mei Chu Zheng (Third Sister Ha Goes to War) won a silver award at the Seventh China Folk Art Festival and the Shanhua Award Exhibition of Chinese Folk Piaose (Taige) Art, hosted by organizations including the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
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