Cheng Qinxiang
Lineage & School of Heritage
Influenced by his grandfather from childhood, he was devoted to Xinggu (procession drum) art and began formally studying with his grandfather at the age of ten.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in December 1947 in Hancheng City, Shaanxi Province. From the 1980s he served as conductor of the drum team and won honours for Hancheng Xinggu at various large-scale gong and drum performances. He can recite from memory more than twenty Xinggu gong and drum jing (rhythmic formulae), has carefully studied the full scores, and is proficient in the playing techniques of the drum, gong, nao and other instruments, becoming an all-round master (quanbashi) of Hancheng Xinggu performance. Building on inherited traditional Xinggu performance skills, he arranged five marching drum sections expressing different moods, forming a set of brilliant Xinggu performance drum music.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Gong and Drum Art (Hancheng Xinggu), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He has trained more than two hundred disciples, including Yang Yufang, Li Guiqin and Xue Fengqin.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Gong and Drum Art Ⅱ-123
- Gong and Drum Art Ⅱ-123
- Gong and Drum Art Ⅱ-123
- Gong and Drum Art Ⅱ-123
- Gong and Drum Art Ⅱ-123
- Gong and Drum Art Ⅱ-123
- Gong and Drum Art Ⅱ-123
- Gong and Drum Art Ⅱ-123
- Gong and Drum Art Ⅱ-123
- Gong and Drum Art Ⅱ-123
- Gong and Drum Art Ⅱ-123
- Gong and Drum Art Ⅱ-123
- Gong and Drum Art Ⅱ-123
- Gong and Drum Art Ⅱ-123
- Gong and Drum Art Ⅱ-123
- Gong and Drum Art Ⅱ-123
- Gong and Drum Art Ⅱ-123
- Gong and Drum Art Ⅱ-123
- Gong and Drum Art Ⅱ-123
Profile
This static English edition is rendered at the edge for search engines, AI crawlers and readers without JavaScript. Compiled from official national representative bearer archival records, organized by topic and translated into English. 阅读中文版。