Zhang Zhenqian
Lineage & School of Heritage
Over the years he has taught apprentices and passed on his art, training thousands of successors.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han, born in April 1939, a native of Wuhua County, Guangdong Province. From the 1970s he engaged in the excavation, systematization and transmission of Tiaohuapeng, and in 1981 he became a disciple of the veteran artists Yao Shitai and Yao Maotai of Changweigong Village, where Tiaohuapeng flourished, in order to study the dance. After many years of study he became thoroughly familiar with and master of the techniques of Tiaohuapeng. The written account of Tiaohuapeng that he authored was included in the Guangdong Volume of the Collected Dances of China's Ethnic Minorities, and he is acclaimed as the first person to excavate, systematize and transmit the dance Tiaohuapeng.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Tiaohuapeng, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Tiaohuapeng Ⅲ-100
Profile
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