Fudakun
Lineage & School of Heritage
From 1965 he learned to sing Xinyang folk songs from his grandfather and his father, and through decades of arduous practice he mastered the vocal production and singing techniques of Xinyang folk song.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han, born in July 1949 in Shangcheng County, Henan Province. In 1990 he founded the Ba Yue Guihua Bian Di Kai (Sweet Osmanthus Blooming Everywhere in August) folk-song troupe of Shuangchunpu Township, Shangcheng County, and served as its head. He sings more than three hundred mountain songs, love songs, ritual songs and work chants, and over long practice has formed his own distinctive Xinyang folk-song style; his representative pieces, An Gen Er Ge Ge Dao Qiang (My Second Brother Across the Wall), Xin Zuo Tang Geng Er Mian Guang (A Newly Built Pond Bank, Smooth on Both Sides) and Zai Ba Huang Yang Qu Qiao Qi (After Planting the Seedlings, Going to See My Wife), were broadcast successively by China Central Television and Henan Television. Through more than fifty years of singing he has accumulated a rich body of material on varied themes and a large repertory, and his performances, while inheriting the style of traditional pieces, incorporate elements of the times and have won wide praise from professionals in the field.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Xinyang Folk Songs, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Xinyang Folk Songs Ⅱ-79
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