Qiu Shaoqiu
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in June 1931 in Liuyang, Hunan Province. At the age of nine he entered the Liuyang Bureau of Rites and Music, where he studied the ancient ritual music and dance of the sacrifice to Confucius. Under the instruction of Mr Tao Zhenqi he learned the ancient dances Gan Qi Wu (Dance of Shield and Axe) and Yu Yue Wu (Dance of Feather and Flute). After 1944, influenced by the assembled music masters headed by Mr Liu Puxian, he learned to play the chi flute, and for the following ten years he was the chi player in the ensemble at the sacrificial ceremonies. In the 1960s he reproduced a complete set of ancient instruments and collected and collated a complete set of ancient scores and dance notations, providing a large quantity of detailed material for the book Liuyang Ancient Music published by the Liuyang Municipal Cultural Centre and also supplying the Liuyang Municipal Museum with material for the renovation of the Confucian temple and for designs restoring its original appearance. In 2014, in the work of restoring the great sacrifice to Confucius in Liuyang, he served as chief instructor, training and coaching the whole procedure so that the great sacrifice was presented in its complete form.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of the Confucius Sacrifice Music of the Liuyang Confucian Temple, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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