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Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Dai ethnicity, born in September 1955, a native of Mangshi, Yunnan Province. Fascinated by the elephant-foot drum, he became a pupil of Bi Xiang, a veteran artist in his village, and learned the elephant-foot drum dance as a child. At the age of twenty-eight he studied the craft of making elephant-foot drums under the renowned maker Lang Paga. Through modest and diligent study he became a master drum maker; his drums are handsome and durable, with a deep, resonant and long-sustaining tone. He commands not only the making, tuning and repair of the elephant-foot drum but also the dance itself, which he performs with consummate skill and a distinctive style, to the great affection of the local Dai people.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of the Dai Elephant-Foot Drum Dance, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Lang Yanruan and Xian Erbao of Guangxiang Village are his prize pupils.
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