Yu Jinsheng
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in June 1953 in Wuqiao County, Hebei Province. He is an acrobat. Born into an acrobatic family, he began training at the age of four, and by the age of six he had mastered such ancestral feats as somersaulting and sword swallowing. He moved acts that had previously been performed in tents and open squares onto the theatre stage. Making the integration of trained animals with acrobatics his distinctive focus, he pioneered the taming of elephants in the Chinese acrobatic world.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Wuqiao Acrobatics, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He has represented China many times at international acrobatics competitions. At the international acrobatics contest marking the centenary of the Russian State Circus he received the Russian Imperial Gold Medal, and at the Third and Sixth China Wuqiao International Acrobatics Art Festivals he won the festival award for greatest innovation for his equestrian act and his fire-spitting act.
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