Che Ge
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Hani ethnicity, born in 1965 in Honghe, Yunnan. She began learning to sing Hani mountain songs in 1974. In 1985 she began learning Hani funeral laments and wedding songs, and took up the leading vocal part in Hani polyphonic music such as Wuchu Achi (Song of Wuchu); to this day she continues to sing the high part and to play the menba (a Hani wind instrument). A fine singer and dancer with superb technique, she was named a "Folk Music Artist" by the Honghe Prefecture Culture Bureau and the Prefecture Ethnic Affairs Commission in 2003. Her representative works include Wuchu Achi and Oulou Lanlou.
Honors & Recognition
She is a national representative bearer of Hani Polyphonic Folk Songs, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
Profile
This static English edition is rendered at the edge for search engines, AI crawlers and readers without JavaScript. Compiled from official national representative bearer archival records, organized by topic and translated into English. 阅读中文版。