Li Shengyi
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1978 he entered the Jinjiang hand puppet troupe as an instrumentalist, studying the traditional puppet tunes under the celebrated puppeteer Chen Tianbao and later learning the traditional qupai music of the southern school of glove puppetry from the teacher Li Bofen.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in June 1955 in Jinjiang County, Fujian Province. He has a thorough command of the traditional qupai music of southern-school glove puppetry and of percussion instruments such as the southern drum, is proficient in the techniques of wind and string playing, and has developed a style of his own in both composition and performance. While inheriting and creating music for southern-school puppet theatre, he has also actively guided and trained young performers in the traditional arias and qupai, the spoken parts and instrumental performance.
Honors & Recognition
Representative bearer of Puppetry (Jinjiang Glove Puppetry), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. His representative work Five-Li Rainbow received the Ninth Wenhua Award for a new programme from the Ministry of Culture in 2000, and he received the composition award of the Golden Lion Awards at the 2003 national puppet and shadow puppet competition.
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