Yulinji
Lineage & School of Heritage
Influenced from childhood by his grandfather and father, he developed a love for performing Chigezhou.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
He was born in March 1967 into a Tibetan family in Wen County, Gansu Province. In 1981 he began a systematic study of the various skills of Chigezhou under his stepfather Yu Yangfu, gaining a comprehensive command of such performance forms as Baima dance, song and storytelling, becoming proficient in the Baima lebei and shaba arts, and dedicating himself to transmitting Baima stories, songs, dances, language, religious beliefs and folk customs. He has compiled twenty Baima stories totalling more than thirty thousand characters, which were selected for the story volume of Studies in the Folk Culture of the Baima People of Longnan.
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Nuo Dance (Chigezhou of Wen County), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He has repeatedly taken part in major festival celebrations and folk-custom performances organized at municipal, county and township level and has received commendations. He has trained more than sixty bearers of Chigezhou, several of whom are provincial-level representative bearers.
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