Yang Guotang
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Miao ethnicity, born in June 1954 in Danzhai County, Guizhou Province. Influenced by traditional Miao culture, he learned to play the lusheng by the age of fifteen and mastered such lusheng methods as the major tune (dadiao), the level tune (pingdiao) and the fine tune (xidiao). In playing he has a distinctive approach to breath management, blowing, inhalation and fingering, and became an outstanding lusheng player in his area. He later studied the playing and dancing techniques of the four-drop lusheng (si di shui) and the mangtong lusheng with his master, and became proficient in mangtong playing and the traditional tunes. After the age of thirty he began to learn the making of lusheng and mangtong, mastered the craft in all its aspects, and produces instruments of beautiful tone. He takes apprentices during the slack farming season, training them to master lusheng playing and making techniques.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Lusheng Music (Miao Mangtong Lusheng), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Lusheng Music Ⅱ-129
- Lusheng Music Ⅱ-129
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