Mei Lianshe
Lineage & School of Heritage
He has won national-level awards on several occasions and is an outstanding fifth-generation transmitter of the Huaiyuan school.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in March 1968, a native of Huaiyuan County, Anhui Province. Several generations of his ancestors were Huagudeng performers; influenced by his family, he learned Huagudeng gong and drum playing from his father as a child, and by the age of fifteen he had developed a fine drum technique and began to take part in lantern performances. He is skilled in playing the accompanying gong and drum (the dengchang drum), and can improvise in response to changes of mood, with consummate technique and strong emotional power. For the single gong and drum pattern known as Xiao Guaiwan (Little Turn) alone he has three ways of playing it, producing different artistic effects. In 2004 he was appointed a teacher at the Huagudeng art talent training base of Huaiyuan Normal School, and has supplied many drummers, gong players and cymbal players to the community and to performing groups.
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Huagudeng (Bengbu Huagudeng), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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