Dai Shuiping
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han, born in March 1955, a native of Xiushui County, Jiangxi Province. Influenced from childhood by his grand-uncle Cao Zhihuo, he loved the Quanfeng flower lantern, and during his middle-school years he learned singing from his elders. After being demobilised from the army in 1976 he taught music at Quanfeng Town Middle School while learning singing, instrumental performance and lantern making from his grand-uncle, becoming thoroughly proficient in the sheng, dan and chou singing styles of the Quanfeng flower lantern, in playing the erhu, dizi and suona for lantern performances, and in the handicraft of weaving and binding lanterns. He collated materials on the Quanfeng flower lantern, incorporated them into the middle-school music and art curriculum, and edited and published "Quanfeng Flower Lantern". He has taken nearly twenty apprentices in lantern singing, instrumental performance and lantern making.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of the Quanfeng Flower Lantern, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. The programmes he has devised for the Quanfeng flower lantern have been presented at various cultural events and have won many awards.
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