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Wang Shigui

05-2988Nuwa Memorial CeremonyFolk CustomsQinan, GansuBatch 5 (2018)

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Han, born in January 1964, a native of Qin'an County, Gansu Province. He has successively presided over the sacrificial activities at the Huize King ancestral hall in Changpingbao, Qin'an County; the ritual services at the Taishan Temple and Beishan Temple of Shangyuan Village and the Xifan Temple of Longcheng Town in Qin'an County; the first and second public sacrificial ceremonies to Nuwa in Tianshui City; the successive folk sacrificial ceremonies to Nuwa in Longcheng Town, Qin'an County; and various folk sacrificial activities in Zhuanglang County, Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County, Qingshui County and elsewhere. He has also taken part in presiding over folk sacrificial activities in parts of Ningxia, Shaanxi and Qinghai. He possesses the ritual implements required for the ceremonies, including drums, jiao, gongs, nao and bo, as well as Daoist scriptures such as the Morning Altar Devotional Scripture, the Evening Altar Devotional Scripture, the Jade Emperor Scripture, the Beidou Yansheng Scripture and the Sanyuan Scripture.

Honors & Recognition

National representative bearer of the Nuwa Memorial Ceremony (Qin'an Nuwa Memorial Ceremony), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Wang Shigui · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Nuwa Memorial Ceremony
Item code
Ⅹ-38
Category
Folk Customs
Region
Qinan, Gansu
Born
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Batch
Batch 5 (2018)

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