Zhang Nailin
Lineage & School of Heritage
He studied under Chen Shuting; between 1938 and 1940, when his master presided over the folk sacrifice to Nuwa at Qujiao Village, he learned and mastered the Nuwa sacrificial rites and procedures, acquired the craft of paper offerings and props, and came to understand the organisation and management of the duty societies. He later succeeded his master in presiding over the Wahuang Society from 1941 to 1964, and directed the annual folk sacrifice to Nuwa from 2003 to 2007.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han, born in March 1929, a native of She County, Hebei Province.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of the Nuwa Memorial Ceremony, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Building on the inherited rules of the traditional sacrifice, he studied and drew on the music and drum patterns of other sacrificial traditions, revised the Nuwa sacrificial music so that it suited the ceremony better, designed props such as the bridal palanquin for inviting and sending off the deities, and passed his skills on to three disciples.
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