Yang Wenming
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Tujia ethnicity, born in July 1946 in Longshan County, Hunan Province. In 1960 he was admitted to the Longshan County opera troupe, where he both acted and trained with the orchestra, mainly learning the drum, gong, cymbal and other percussion instruments. He has continually sought instruction from folk practitioners, without a break over several decades. From 1974, with the help of his teacher Tian Longxin, his daliuzi playing improved considerably. Since 2006 he and Tian Longxin and others have taken Tujia daliuzi to major events including the China National Song and Dance Gala, the Beijing Olympic Games and the Shanghai World Expo, and have performed in Taiwan and Macao.
Honors & Recognition
Representative bearer of Tujia Daliuzi Percussion, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is dedicated to transmitting Tujia daliuzi. The young disciples he has trained at the Bizika Performing Arts Company in Longshan County, among them Yang Yingjie and Ma Jun, are all outstanding; they frequently take part in competitions at provincial and prefectural level and have won numerous awards.
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