Yang Naijun
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in June 1929, a native of Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province. A storyteller of the Wang Xizhi legend. Influenced by the elders of his family, he was devoted to folktales from childhood, and from the 1970s he dedicated himself to collecting and arranging the Wang Xizhi legend, continually drawing nourishment from folk tradition and working it up and adapting it into the substance of his own stories. He is adept at using dialect and colloquial idiom and at telling stories in connection with historic sites associated with Wang Xizhi; he excels at using stories to convey the truths of life, exerting a subtle and gradual influence after the manner of spring rain. He frequently goes into schools, work units and communities to tell the Wang Xizhi legend, and his unhurried, engaging manner of narration is universally loved by the public; he is a typical representative among the tellers of the Wang Xizhi legend.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of the Wangxizhi Legend, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Over the years he has taken an active part in the protection and transmission of the Wang Xizhi legend, actively training new bearers and coaching students who take part in storytelling competitions of various kinds.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Wangxizhi Legend Ⅰ-100
Profile
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