Lin Shile

05-2189Dragon DanceTraditional DanceTaishun, ZhejiangBatch 5 (2018)

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, of Han ethnicity, born in September 1941 in Taishun County, Zhejiang Province. From 1958 he learned the Dingbu dragon dance from his father and joined an amateur dragon dance team in performances outside his home township. Since 1983 he has shouldered much of the organizational work of the amateur Dingbu dragon team, devoted himself to the safeguarding and transmission of the dance, and preserved a manuscript copy of the sixty-three movements of the Dingbu dragon dance from the late Qing dynasty. For many years he has worked tirelessly to promote and transmit the Dingbu dragon dance, teaching its movements without charge. He carefully organizes the Dingbu dragon performance team, which brings the dragon lantern to neighbouring villages every first lunar month, and he has several times been invited to perform in Xiapu, Fu'an, Zherong and Fuding in Fujian, to wide acclaim.

Honors & Recognition

Representative bearer of Dragon Dance (Dingbu Dragon), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.

References & Archival Sources

Lin Shile · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Dragon Dance
Item code: Ⅲ-4
Category: Traditional Dance
Region: Taishun, Zhejiang
Born: —
Batch: Batch 5 (2018)

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