Liu Weixiang

05-2193Dragon DanceTraditional DanceWuhanshihanyang, HubeiBatch 5 (2018)

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, of Han ethnicity, born in September 1977 in Wuhan City, Hubei Province. From the age of twelve he trained in the dragon's tail, and at seventeen he formally took the veteran dragon dancer Wang Zili as his master in order to learn the dragon's head. After more than ten years of honing his craft he performs such traditional feats as knocking, sweeping, raising, supporting, shaking and balancing the head with greater refinement, surprise and daring. He has inherited and developed the feat of holding with the mouth and supporting with the teeth, in which he supports a towering dragon head weighing dozens of jin with his teeth alone while kneeling and sliding forward on the ground, an accomplishment praised as a unique feat in the world of dragon dancing. He has many times led high dragon performers in shows in China and abroad. The high dragon he performs is technically superb and grand in momentum, and has won much praise from audiences.

Honors & Recognition

Representative bearer of Dragon Dance (High Dragon), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He has trained a group of successors including Chen Tao.

References & Archival Sources

Liu Weixiang · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

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

This static English edition is rendered at the edge for search engines, AI crawlers and readers without JavaScript. Compiled from official national representative bearer archival records, organized by topic and translated into English. 阅读中文版。