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An Baohui

05-2159Daoist MusicTraditional MusicQingshui, GansuBatch 5 (2018)

Lineage & School of Heritage

He is the fourteenth-generation transmitter of the An family's Daoist music. He studied under his grandfather An Qinming and his grandfather's disciple An Wangsheng, and has mastered the scripture chants and instrumental performance of the An family's Huashan school Daoist music.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Han ethnicity, born in November 1962, a native of Qingshui County, Gansu Province. He has inherited more than sixty collections of scores and more than eighty vocal styles; building on his family's forms of Daoist music, he has also absorbed folk tunes, Qinqiang opera and the singing style of the Quanzhen school, combining the strengths of many masters to form a style of his own. Setting aside sectarian and lineage boundaries, he has transmitted Daoist music to several disciples outside his own surname. He took part in the excavation and organization of Qingshui Daoist music, in the collection of its scores, and in the compilation of the volume Collection of Folk Instrumental Pieces from Qingshui, and he has also compiled books including History of the Transmission of the Zhengyi Huashan School within the An Family and Genealogy.

Honors & Recognition

National representative bearer of Daoist Music (Qingshui Daoist Music), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.

References & Archival Sources

  1. An Baohui · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Daoist Music
Item code
Ⅱ-139
Category
Traditional Music
Region
Qingshui, Gansu
Born
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Batch
Batch 5 (2018)

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