Zhao Xinrong
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Yao ethnicity, born in December 1947 in Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County, Guangdong Province. From childhood she learned Yao folk songs in the hills and fields alongside elders who loved to sing mountain songs, and she developed a deep interest in them. After marrying, she still insisted on singing antiphonally with fellow enthusiasts in the intervals between heavy labour. In old age her enthusiasm for mountain songs has not diminished, and she often organises gatherings of Yao mountain song enthusiasts to exchange songs.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Yao Folk Songs, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. As a representative bearer of Yao folk songs, she has for years taught classes and taken apprentices at the county ethnic experimental school and the ethnic vocational secondary technical school, setting up school-based training classes for the transmission of Yao folk songs and teaching young Yao people to sing them, doing her utmost for their transmission and development.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Yao Folk Songs Ⅱ-110
- Yao Folk Songs Ⅱ-110
Profile
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