Hou Zipeng
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Miao ethnicity, born in June 1959, a native of Luxi County, Hunan Province. A researcher of the Panhu legend. From the mid-1980s he began collecting and arranging a large number of folktales and myths and legends relating to Panhu and Xinnu. Five of his stories, three children's songs and four proverbs were published in the three-volume Luxi County Compendium of Folk Literature (stories, ballads and proverbs), compiled and edited by the Luxi County Cultural Centre, the most representative among them being Xin Nu Yan De Chuan Shuo (The Legend of Xinnu Cliff) and Xin Nu Yan Yu Bai Long Yan De Chuan Shuo (The Legend of Xinnu Cliff and White Dragon Cliff). His article Xin Nu He Pan Hu De Shen Hua Chuan Shuo (The Myth and Legend of Xinnu and Panhu) was included in Yuan Shui Pan Hu Wen Hua Liu Lan (A Survey of Panhu Culture along the Yuan River). Two of his articles, Xin Nu An Yu Pan Hu Miao De Lai Li (The Origin of the Xinnu Nunnery and the Panhu Temple) and Xin Nu He Pan Hu De Shen Hua Chuan Shuo (The Myth and Legend of Xinnu and Panhu), were published in Pan Hu Wen Hua Tan Yuan (Tracing the Sources of Panhu Culture), edited by Yao Benkui and Long Haiqing.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of the Panhu Legend, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Panhu Legend Ⅰ-93
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