Li Guiying
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han ethnic group, born in May 1946, a native of Minhe County, Qinghai Province. She began learning to sing hua'er at the age of fifteen and took up hua'er singing professionally at eighteen. In 1978 she wrote hua'er lyrics of her own, including Da Ma de Bianzi Shuai Yuan Le (The Horse-Whipping Whip Whirled Full Circle) and Gechang Mao Zhuxi Gechang Dang (Singing of Chairman Mao, Singing of the Party), and performed them on stage. Nearly one hundred of her own hua'er have appeared in such publications as Qilisi Hua'er Collection, Newly Composed Hua'er Lyrics and Minhe Ballads, and are widely sung by local people.
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Hua'er (Qilisi Hua'er Fair), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. She works actively to train young singers and to pass on the quling she herself sings; at the annual Qilisi Hua'er Fair in particular she attends in person and seeks out new talent, so that the protection and transmission of Qilisi hua'er has become a lively enterprise, and her apprentices Deng Li'er, Chen Yuan and others have become well-known hua'er singers in Minhe County.
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