Mengshuzhen
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Oroqen ethnicity, born in July 1951 in Xunke County, Heilongjiang Province. She grew up nurtured by a rich Oroqen cultural environment. Between 1979 and 1988 she travelled at her own expense through Oroqen communities in Heilongjiang Province and to places such as Alihe and Guli to gather material, collating documents on the traditional narrative art of mosukun. In April 2010 she was appointed a specially engaged professor at the School of Music of Harbin Normal University and gave special lectures to its staff and students. In the Department of Music of Heihe University she delivered a special report entitled Traditional Oroqen Folk Songs and Narrative Singing.
Honors & Recognition
She is a national representative bearer of Oroqen mosukun, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Over many years she has poured great effort into promoting the art of mosukun and has trained a large number of students; she took part in compiling the Heilongjiang Volume of the Chinese Folk Literature Compendium and published A Collection of Oroqen Folk Songs of Heilongjiang Province.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Oroqen Mosukun Ⅴ-43
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