Ma Jinshan
Lineage & School of Heritage
He studied hua'er singing under Wang Shaoming, known as the "King of Hua'er", and studied music theory, notation and such instruments as the erhu, sanxian, suona and mimi (a small folk reed pipe) under Wang Pei, a researcher at the Linxia Prefecture Cultural Centre.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Dongxiang ethnicity, born in 1949 in Hezheng, Gansu. He began composing hua'er in 1980. Some of his works are held in the collections of the Linxia Prefecture Culture Bureau and the Mass Art Centre, and he was given the titles "Golden Suona at the Foot of Mount Taizi" and "King of the Erhu of the Dongxiang People". In 2005 he joined the Chinese Folk Literature and Art Association. He excels at improvised singing, and thirteen sets of hua'er lyrics and short tunes that he wrote were included in the Compendium of Chinese Folk Songs.
Honors & Recognition
Representative bearer of Hua'er (Songmingyan Hua'er Fair), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
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