Peng Nanjing
Lineage & School of Heritage
From childhood he loved watching the elders perform the Maogusi dance, and he learned it from his grandfather Peng Wulong and his father Peng Guangsong.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Tujia ethnicity, born in June 1942, a native of Longshan County, Hunan Province. He began performing the Maogusi dance with his elders at the age of thirteen. He once joined the army and entered an art troupe, and after leaving the service he continued to study the performance techniques of the Maogusi dance. He has visited many folk artists in order to study, collect and recover materials on folk culture. Besides the Maogusi dance he is also skilled in the Tujia hand-waving dance and the dongdongkui, a Tujia wind instrument, combining several skills in one person. He actively organizes the local people in Tujia folk cultural activities and has on several occasions cooperated with China Central Television and Hunan Television in the filming of documentaries.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Xiangxi Tujia Maogusi Dance, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He has also helped the township cultural station to train a group of new folk cultural talents and works hard to transmit his skills; his more than thirty disciples include Peng Yinghua, Tian Zhiyong, Peng Caineng and Peng Yingjin.
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