Gaolemei
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1940 he studied Eastern-Road Errentai singing under Qin Fuxi.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Mongol ethnicity, born in November 1935 in Shangdu County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. In 1958 he joined the Shangdu County Eastern-Road Errentai Troupe as a director, and later taught at an art school. After retiring in 1992 he began to organize traditional plays and tunes, and has written or adapted more than fifty scripts. Eleven Eastern-Road Errentai vocal pieces he recorded were included in the seven national art integration compendia, and he provided material for the Inner Mongolia volumes of the Collected Chinese Folk Songs, the Chronicle of Chinese Opera and the Collected Chinese Opera Music.
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Errentai (Eastern-Road Errentai), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1995 he received the Award for Outstanding Contribution over Forty Years in the Arts from the Inner Mongolia Branch of the Chinese Dramatists Association. In 2004 he received the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Folk Literature and Art from the Inner Mongolia Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Inner Mongolia Folk Literature and Art Association.
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