Rui Shilong
Lineage & School of Heritage
He began performing xuanjuan in 1960, studying successively under Yang Kunrong, Gu Jiren and Min Peichuan. In 1992 he studied under Xu Suzhen, younger sister of Xu Weijun, founder of the Xu school, and became the third-generation transmitter of Xu-school xuanjuan.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of the Han ethnic group, born in January 1935, a native of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. He is a transmission master of baojuan (Wudi baojuan). He is thoroughly familiar with more than fifty traditional xuanjuan scripts, including Luo Yang Qiao (The Luoyang Bridge), Zhen Zhu Ta (The Pearl Pagoda) and Miao Jin Feng (The Gilded Phoenix), and his singing is popular and plain, with varied melodies. From 2012 he voluntarily served as the tutoring teacher of the xuanjuan transmission class at Tongli Middle School, teaching once a week. The xuanjuan troupe he leads is active all year round in villages in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Shanghai region and persists in chanting baojuan at the Tuisi Garden in Tongli.
Honors & Recognition
He is a representative bearer of baojuan (Wudi baojuan), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He lays stress on training new performers and transmitting skills. He has taken Zhao Hua, Ji Qiuping, Wu Genhua and others as disciples; at the 11th Shanghai International Arts Festival Yangtze River Delta quyi invitational competition in 2011, his disciple Zhao Hua's Xiang Xia Jie Shang Ren (Country Folk in the Town) won a gold prize.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Hexibaojuan Ⅰ-13
- Hexibaojuan Ⅰ-13
- Baojuan Sutra Telling Ⅰ-13
- Baojuan Sutra Telling Ⅰ-13
- Baojuan Sutra Telling Ⅰ-13
- Baojuan Sutra Telling Ⅰ-13
Profile
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