Ma Delin
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Hui ethnicity, born in 1949 in Datong, Qinghai. He began learning to sing hua'er at the age of thirteen. From 1986, building on traditional hua'er, he composed 1,059 pieces of "newly composed dachuan hua'er", whose opening lines take their rise from myths, legends and historical allusions. After retiring from the Yaodong Primary School in 2004, he continued to devote himself to singing and transmitting hua'er. His hua'er are truthful, vivid and lively, and his singing is melodious and elegant, combining the plain sincerity of mountain folk with a scholar's suppleness. In 2003 he compiled and published Xinbian Dachuan Hua'er (Newly Composed Dachuan Hua'er).
Honors & Recognition
Representative bearer of Hua'er (Laoyeshan Hua'er Fair), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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