Tan Sangang
Lineage & School of Heritage
Fourteenth-generation bearer of the Maonan feitao. In 1982 he began learning the feitao dance from his father, the tradition having been handed down within the family for generations.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Maonan ethnicity, born in October 1959, a native of Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. He knows Maonan folk culture well and has a masterly command of the various rites and skills of the Maonan feitao. He has twice been invited to Japan for international folk culture and arts exchange performances, where his programme was Wansui Niangniang Sa Jinhua (The Queen Mother Scatters Golden Flowers), also known as Powang Songhua (The Queen Mother Sends Flowers), and he has taken part in many intangible cultural heritage publicity and display events.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of the Maonan Feitao, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Maonan Feitao Ⅹ-17
Profile
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