Wei Jianming

05-2185Yangge DanceTraditional DanceSuide, ShaanxiBatch 5 (2018)

Lineage & School of Heritage

In 1969 he began studying Northern Shaanxi yangge and took the folk artist Wu Jiye as his teacher to learn yangge performance; he is a representative figure of the erren changzi, the two-person dance of Northern Shaanxi.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, of Han ethnicity, born in November 1948 in Suide County, Shaanxi Province. He has loved folk art since childhood. In the 1970s and 1980s the Northern Shaanxi erren changzi that he choreographed and performed together with the folk artist Li Zengheng, known as Liuliudan, was entered in national, provincial and municipal folk dance festivals and created a sensation within and beyond the province. In 1995 he was transferred to the post of director of the Suide County Cultural Centre, where he founded an art troupe and served concurrently as its head, devoting extensive effort to promoting Northern Shaanxi folk art.

Honors & Recognition

Representative bearer of Yangge Dance (Northern Shaanxi Yangge), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. To transmit Northern Shaanxi yangge he has trained many performers of the kuaguzi, the drum-carrying role of the erren changzi, in Suide County.

References & Archival Sources

Wei Jianming · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Yangge Dance
Item code: Ⅲ-2
Category: Traditional Dance
Region: Suide, Shaanxi
Born: —
Batch: Batch 5 (2018)

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