Li Guangfu

01 · Lineage & Regional School

Li Guangfu, Male, Han, from Hezeshimudan, Shandong, is a fourth-batch national representative bearer of Luxinan Wind and Percussion Music (Ⅱ-45). The tradition is documented in Hezeshimudan, Shandong. Within the regional tradition and school record of Luxinan Wind and Percussion Music in Hezeshimudan, Shandong: Luxinan wind and percussion music is one of the great branches of drum-and-wind music in northern China; it is distributed mainly in Heze and in some counties (districts) of Jining and Zaozhuang in the south-west of Shandong Province, of which Mudan District of Heze City, Juye County, Shan County and Juancheng County are the most representative. The history of Luxinan wind and percussion art can be traced back to the Han dynasty: the Wu clan shrine at Jiaxiang was built at the end of the Eastern Han, and the Han pictorial stones in the shrine vividly depict the playing of drum-and-wind music at that time. The repertoire of Luxinan wind and percussion music has a very long history, comprising both zaju tune patterns used since the Song and Yuan dynasties and a large number of Ming and Qing small tunes; Bai Niao Chao Feng (A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix), Tai Hua Jiao (Carrying the Bridal Sedan Chair), Da He Tao (Great Combined Set), Da Di Jiao (Great Flute Whirl), Yi Zhi Hua (A Single Flower) and Suo Nan Zhi (Locking the South Branch) are all representative pieces among them.

02 · Mastery & Signature Works

Male, of Han ethnicity, born in February 1943 in Heze, Shandong Province. Since the 1960s, while inheriting the performance techniques and essential qualities of his forebears, he has humbly studied with other veteran folk artists. He has collected and performed a body of northern wind pieces and techniques on the verge of being lost, and has developed techniques such as ruan tu (soft tonguing), haha tu (laughing tonguing), and fuyin (brushed tone), producing a lively articulation and a bright timbre. At the same time, he has absorbed the strengths of Western wind music and created a number of original performance techniques, steadily enriching and enhancing the expressive capacity of the suona through long practice in performance and composition. Within the documented technical tradition of Luxinan Wind and Percussion Music in Hezeshimudan, Shandong: Luxinan wind and percussion music consists of wind instruments and percussion instruments, and according to performing function it is divided into three kinds: ordinary drum-and-wind music, sacrificial music and deity-worship music; the principal performing forms are procession performance and seated performance. The suona is the most important instrument in drum-and-wind music, and its common techniques include harmonics, finger-flower sounds, beaten notes, auxiliary notes, breath-arch tones, breath-supported tones, floret tones and slides. Representative repertoire, works and technical entries recorded for the project include: "Bai Niao Chao Feng": The repertoire of Luxinan wind and percussion music has a very long history, comprising both zaju tune patterns used since the Song and Yuan dynasties and a large number of Ming and Qing small tunes; Bai Niao Chao Feng (A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix), Tai Hua Jiao (Carrying the Bridal Sedan Chair), Da He Tao (Great Combined Set), Da Di Jiao (Great Flute Whirl), Yi Zhi Hua (A Single Flower) and Suo Nan Zhi (Locking the South Branch) are all representative pieces among them. "Tai Hua Jiao": The repertoire of Luxinan wind and percussion music has a very long history, comprising both zaju tune patterns used since the Song and Yuan dynasties and a large number of Ming and Qing small tunes; Bai Niao Chao Feng (A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix), Tai Hua Jiao (Carrying the Bridal Sedan Chair), Da He Tao (Great Combined Set), Da Di Jiao (Great Flute Whirl), Yi Zhi Hua (A Single Flower) and Suo Nan Zhi (Locking the South Branch) are all representative pieces among them. "Da He Tao": The repertoire of Luxinan wind and percussion music has a very long history, comprising both zaju tune patterns used since the Song and Yuan dynasties and a large number of Ming and Qing small tunes; Bai Niao Chao Feng (A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix), Tai Hua Jiao (Carrying the Bridal Sedan Chair), Da He Tao (Great Combined Set), Da Di Jiao (Great Flute Whirl), Yi Zhi Hua (A Single Flower) and Suo Nan Zhi (Locking the South Branch) are all representative pieces among them. "Da Di Jiao": The repertoire of Luxinan wind and percussion music has a very long history, comprising both zaju tune patterns used since the Song and Yuan dynasties and a large number of Ming and Qing small tunes; Bai Niao Chao Feng (A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix), Tai Hua Jiao (Carrying the Bridal Sedan Chair), Da He Tao (Great Combined Set), Da Di Jiao (Great Flute Whirl), Yi Zhi Hua (A Single Flower) and Suo Nan Zhi (Locking the South Branch) are all representative pieces among them.

03 · Transmission & Safeguarding Status

He is a representative bearer of Luxinan Wind and Percussion Music, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1997 he founded a specialized school; his students have won awards at provincial and municipal levels on many occasions, and some are now teachers at well-known professional music schools in China.

04 · Associated Heritage Item Dossier

05 · Fellow National Bearers Lineage

National representative bearers recorded under the same item code, ordered from the first to the sixth batch. Batch order is not a teacher–student relationship.

06 · Archival Sources & Bibliography

1. Li Guangfu · National Representative Bearer Archive