Jia Fuying
Lineage & School of Heritage
At the age of eight he began following his father in learning to tell Dong folk tales and sing Dong songs. By his early teens he was performing on stage, and he later learned to compose Dong songs and Dong opera. To this day he continues to teach Dong songs and Dong opera and to compose songs and operas in Xiaohuang Village.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Dong ethnicity, born in December 1936 in Congjiang County, Guizhou Province. He has mastered nearly two thousand traditional Dong songs, has composed 260 new Dong songs himself and has created more than twenty Dong operas. His representative works include Fu Guan, Mai Tian (Buying Land), Qiao Fa Jianshang (Cleverly Punishing the Unscrupulous Merchant) and Tou Ji (Stealing Chickens). The Dong operas Fu Guan and Qiao Fa Jianshang, adapted from folk tales, are still widely circulated and performed without flagging in Dong villages.
Honors & Recognition
He is a representative bearer of the Grand Song of the Dong ethnic group, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He has trained more than two hundred disciples, many of whom have become well-known local singers and song masters.
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