Lu Ruiying
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1958, experts from the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and the Federation of Literary and Art Circles came to Baimao to collect and collate the Baimao mountain songs. She actively cooperated with their work, launched the New Folk Song Movement, and organized mountain-song teams that carried the songs into the fields, integrating them with production.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, of the Han ethnic group, born in 1932, a native of Changshu, Jiangsu. Lu Ruiying excels at mountain songs of custom and daily life, labor mountain songs, and four-line mountain songs, and she commands a repertoire of thousands of traditional mountain songs and folk tales in their original, unadorned form. Her voice is clear and sweet, and her melodies are fine and lingering. Her representative works include the antiphonal song What Is Round in the Mid-Heavens and the solos Sing a Mountain Song and the Rice Sprouts and Viewing the Dowry.
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of the Wu Songs, a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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