Bohanbing
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Dai ethnicity, born in February 1962, a native of Mengla County, Yunnan Province. From childhood he had a keen interest in the Dai elephant-foot drum dance and in martial arts. At the age of eight he became a pupil of Yan Wangdan of his village and learned the elephant-foot drum dance. He ingeniously incorporates Dai martial arts into the elephant-foot drum dance, embodying the union of hardness and softness in martial art and dance, and has formed a distinctive repertoire of his own. By about the age of twenty he had become a locally well-known elephant-foot drum dancer. In 1999 he studied the craft of making elephant-foot drums under Botao Wanxianggangna, a veteran artist of Mangangna Village in Mengla Town, becoming a "drum king" of the elephant-foot drum dance who can both make drums and dance.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of the Dai Elephant-Foot Drum Dance, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Through diligent study he became the finest of Yan Wangdan's thirteen pupils. From 1986 he began taking pupils on a broad scale and teaching them with care, accepting more than 130 in succession, among them Bohanbian, Yan Yanfen, Yan Jiao, Yan Layue and Yan Hanbing; most of them can now work independently.
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