Chen Fanxing
Lineage & School of Heritage
From the age of ten he watched and built gushi (tableau performances). At twelve he learned stilt walking from his father; at fourteen he studied the complete repertoire of small gongs and drums under veteran performers; at sixteen he learned from old artists to construct di gushi (ground tableaux), ditai gushi (platform tableaux), gaocai gushi (high-pole tableaux) and stilts tableaux; and at seventeen he was apprenticed to learn theatrical facial makeup, committing to memory more than one hundred masks of the sheng, dan, jing, mo and chou role types, while also studying painstakingly more than 380 famous historical allusions and stories from the Shang and Zhou dynasties through the Qin and Han to the Qing dynasty.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of the Han ethnic group, born in August 1952 in Miluo City, Hunan Province.
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Taige (Changle Taige Story Fair), a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 2006 he received the Award for Outstanding Direction at the literary and artistic performances of the China Yueyang (Miluo River) International Dragon Boat Festival. In 2008 his story-fair work Da Zhan Lu Wenlong (The Great Battle with Lu Wenlong) won the Silver Award at the Chinese Folk Piaose (Taige) Art Exhibition and was shortlisted for the Shanhua Prize for Folk Literature and Art in the Folk Art Performance category for folk custom and etiquette performance, among other honours.
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