Sun Bingxiang
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
He loved the hand lion dance from childhood and was already taking part in lantern-making and lion dancing as a young man. In the work of collating and reviving the hand lion dance he was responsible for making the hand lions and for teaching the dance technique and the basic principles of coordinating the movement with gong and drum music; he has mastered all the movements of the dance and, through a sequence of turning, rolling, crawling, leaping, kneeling, sitting, spinning and lying movements, expresses the lion's joy, anger, sorrow and happiness. For several decades he has taken part in hand lion dance activities without interruption and passed on the technique, appearing frequently at festivals and celebrations to the great delight of local audiences.
Honors & Recognition
Male, Han ethnicity, born in August 1931, died in April 2014, a native of Shanghai. National representative bearer of Lion Dance (Maqiao Hand Lion Dance), a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1992 the Maqiao hand lion dance performance was awarded third prize by the Ministry of Culture at the National Folk Music and Dance Festival.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Lion Dance Ⅲ-5
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Profile
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