Deng Yinhai
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in November 1953 in Lantian County, Shaanxi Province. After graduating from the Xi'an Conservatory of Music in 1976 he was assigned to work at the Lantian County Cultural Centre. From 1980 to the present he has been engaged in excavating, collating, studying and researching the Puhua shuihui music of Lantian and in organizing performances, bringing back to life a music that had been interrupted for many years. In order to rescue shuihui music he travelled all over the mountains, rivers and plains of Lantian to carry out surveys, visited drum-music societies and academic institutions in Chang'an District of Xi'an and in Zhouzhi County, consulted a great quantity of materials, and deciphered the ancient scores of Lantian shuihui music, attracting the attention of Chinese and foreign scholars. In October 2008, at the opening ceremony of the Fourth China Western Cultural Expo, the shuihui music performance he conducted was a great success. In the same year he led a delegation to Japan for exchange performances, which Japanese friends praised as "a life-saving talisman for shuihui music". He has held several training classes in shuihui music transmission and has recruited more than ten new members.
Honors & Recognition
Representative bearer of Lantian Puhua Shuihui Music, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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