Han Haihua
Lineage & School of Heritage
He began practising martial arts with his father at the age of seven; at nine he became a disciple of the renowned Hui martial artist Li Zunsi, and later studied under the Hui martial artists Li Qingshan and others, training in traditional Hui martial arts such as the yangdao (long sabre), boat boxing, Xinyi Liuhe Quan, Cha Quan, wrestling and bull wrestling.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
He was born in July 1954 in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, and is of Hui ethnicity. He is a performer of the Guanniu (bull wrestling) technique and holds the seventh duan of Chinese wushu. He took part in Guanniu performances at the Second, Third and Fourth National Traditional Ethnic Minority Sports Games, and has also appeared in more than thirty films and television dramas. Over the past twenty years he has studied the competition rules of Guanniu and organises the China Guanniu Championship and its academic seminar every year.
Honors & Recognition
He is a representative bearer of Guanniu, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Guanniu Ⅵ-67
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