Gao Yumin
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in June 1963, a native of Wanrong County, Shanxi Province. After graduating from high school at the age of eighteen, he joined the village cultural troupe, where he was responsible for making props and arranging programmes, and began to study the art of taige (raised-platform tableaux) and to make its props. From 1985 he was responsible for the Spring Festival shehuo performances; during this period he took the veteran artists Wang Dianjie and Wang Yiping as his teachers, devoted himself to studying and improving the taige art, and produced many distinctive fine taige pieces. His works are novel in conception, bold in design and exquisite in execution, and his programmes have been renewed from year to year; he led the Xicun taige team to perform at the Guandi Temple Fair in Yuncheng and the Longtan Temple Fair in Beijing, winning gold awards on both occasions. Each year he takes part in organising shehuo performances and cultural displays at municipal, county and township level, and instructs the surrounding villages and towns in taige performance, having trained more than a hundred newcomers to the art in total. He also presided over the compilation of the book Taige of Wanrong.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Taige (Xinzi, Tiezhi and Piaose) (Wanrong Taige), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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