Liu Quanxue
Lineage & School of Heritage
At the age of eight he became a pupil of the folk song artist Li Hongfu, and later studied Xunyang folk songs under Qian Libao.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in October 1965 in Xunyang County, Shaanxi Province. By the age of fifteen he could sing more than four hundred and eighty Xunyang folk songs in different styles. In 1979 he organized more than thirty folk artists in the northern part of Xunyang County into a folk song performance troupe. He is an all-round master of Xunyang folk song singing: his haozi work songs are sonorous and vigorous, full of warmth and energy; his mountain songs have high, far-reaching tones that move the listener; his xiaodiao are humorous and witty, their lining words and lining melodies of distinctive charm; and his huaguzi are joyful and ardent, steeped in local colour. He is also skilled at playing female roles in cross-gender performance, singing in a gentle and lingering manner. His representative works include Lang Zai Dui Men Da Jin Ji (My Love Shoots the Golden Pheasant at the Gate Opposite) and Mo Ba Mei Wa Er Shai Huai Le (Do Not Let the Girl Be Scorched by the Sun). To transmit Xunyang folk songs he has taken more than thirty apprentices and held more than twenty free training classes.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Xunyang Folk Songs, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Xunyang Folk Songs Ⅱ-159
Profile
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