Ma Handong
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
He loved hua'er from childhood and studied folk art, and he took part in hua'er singing events held at national and regional level. Years of performing gave him rich experience, and through his own research he achieved much in the singing and study of Hui mountain hua'er; from 1985 to 1988 he took part in the collection and editing of the Ningxia volume of the Collection of Chinese Folk Songs. His voice is high and clear yet round and full, his melodies are rich, and he excels at lyrical expression; he could sing more than one hundred traditional hua'er pieces and composed sixty hua'er pieces of his own. His signature pieces include Shangqu Gaoshan Wang Pingchuan (Climbing the High Mountain to Gaze on the Plain), Yuanzili Zhangzhe Lü Jiucai (Green Leeks Growing in the Garden), Ama de Gaiwancha (Mother's Covered-Bowl Tea), Yao Luozi (Driving the Mule), Hei Mao Wo zai Guotai Shang (The Black Cat Curled on the Stove) and Ga Laohan (The Little Old Man).
Honors & Recognition
Male, Hui ethnic group, born in May 1962, died in October 2018, a native of Haiyuan County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. A national representative bearer of Hua'er (Ningxia Hui Mountain Hua'er), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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