Ganzhuer
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1969 he studied the storytelling art under Meng Tianbao and Burenbayaer. He systematically carried on the artistic essence of Burenbayaer and formed the Burenbayaer-Ganzhuer school.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Mongol ethnicity, born in October 1950 in Horqin Right Wing Middle Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The traditional repertoire he transmits includes Jin Shu Zhuan (The Tale of the Golden Tree) and Chu Guo Xiang Zheng (The Contest Between Chu and Guo); he has translated and performed Chinese-language stories such as Sui Tang Yan Yi (Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties) and Hu Yang He Bing (The Hu and Yang Families Join Forces), and has adapted and performed many wuligeer pieces, among them The Story of Genghis Khan and Qing Shi Yan Yi (Romance of the Blue History). He has also published monographs such as the Tushiyetu Huurchi Directory and a 400,000-character novel, Ding Tian Shan (Summit of Heaven).
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of wuligeer, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. To date he has presided over the founding of fifteen training classes for young artists and has been responsible for or involved in organizing ten wuligeer competitions; the students he has trained number forty-one, including Erdun Chugula.
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