Liu Hongsheng
Lineage & School of Heritage
In his early years he learned the art from his father and performed with the family troupe; he later worked at the Yongnian County Art Troupe and is the third-generation transmitter of Yongnian gu chui music.
Honors & Recognition
Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1930, died in 2011, a native of Yongnian, Hebei. Representative bearer of Hebei Gu Chui Music, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He was skilled in the Luo opera tunes, sheng and drum of gu chui music and formed an artistic style at once rough and unrestrained and gently refined; his performing repertoire ran to more than two hundred pieces, including Ba Wang Bian (The Overlord's Whip) and Liu Bei Guo Jiang (Liu Bei Crosses the River). He trained more than eighty performers and won awards in many national, provincial and municipal competitions.
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