Liu Zhenyi
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1934 he entered a drum music ensemble workshop and studied under the renowned drum music artist Ji Degong; in 1937 he completed his apprenticeship and began performing drum music.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in 1914 in Yingkou, Liaoning. In the 1940s he formed the Liuhe Drum Music Ensemble and began taking on disciples and teaching the art. Building on the traditional techniques, he developed distinctive features of his own and excelled at performing Han chui qu (Han wind pieces). He accumulated rich experience in the command of tone, temperament, and mode, and is thoroughly at ease with, and has innovated upon, such highly demanding techniques as the mode-changing borrowed-note method of the suona. Performing ka xi, in which the instrument imitates human voices and other sounds, is his speciality, and his mimicry is remarkably true to life.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Liaoning Drum Music, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Liaoning Drum Music Ⅱ-39
- Liaoning Drum Music Ⅱ-39
Profile
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