Xiong Yuangui
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in August 1933 in Gong'an County, Hubei Province. He is a researcher of the legends of the Three Kingdoms. His mother, Xu Chuanxi, was a renowned "basket of stories" and folk singer in Buhe Town, Gong'an County. Influenced by his family, he loved folk literature from childhood, and long exposure and oral instruction enabled him gradually to recite fluently the Three Kingdoms stories and legends current in Jingzhou. He has always persisted in fieldwork; by the 1990s he had collected and arranged 4.5 million characters of folk-literature material, including stories, legends, ballads and proverbs. In recent years he has devoted himself more intently to researching and arranging Three Kingdoms legend material, and has published fourteen works, including Legends of the Three Kingdoms in Jingzhou and Idiom Stories of the Three Kingdoms in Jingzhou. These Three Kingdoms legends are rich in content, intricate in plot and full of artistic appeal.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of the Legend of Sanguo, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Sanguo Legend Ⅰ-137
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