Wu Jiaxing
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Dong ethnicity, born in 1942 in Rongjiang, Guizhou. He learned songs from his parents from childhood. In 1960 he studied pipa playing and singing under the song master Pu Tao. By 1965 he was able to join antiphonal singing in the song hall of his own village, and in 1970 he sang in the song halls of other villages and began to take students as a fully fledged master. Thereafter he taught songs away from home for many years, for more than thirty years to date, and is a renowned song master in the Forty-Eight Villages area. Today, besides teaching songs in his village, he also works as a music teacher in the "Ethnic Music in the Classroom" programme. He has mastered the complete art of playing and singing Dong pipa songs; his representative works include Funü Ge (Song of Women) and Dongjia Wawa Ai Pipa (Dong Children Love the Pipa).
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Dong Pipa Songs, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Dong Pipa Songs Ⅱ-29
- Dong Pipa Songs Ⅱ-29
- Dong Pipa Songs Ⅱ-29
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