Liu Haimin
01 · Lineage & Regional School
Liu Haimin, Male, Han, from Yongnian, Hebei, is a sixth-batch national representative bearer of Hebei Wind and Percussion Ensemble (Ⅱ-55). The tradition is documented in Yongnian, Hebei. Within the regional tradition and school record of Hebei Wind and Percussion Ensemble in Yongnian, Hebei: Its performing style is rugged and ardent, cheerful and lively, with a marked regional character. Funing drum-and-wind is rich in content, with a distinctive regional cultural character and important historical and artistic value. Before the 1970s, the art of drum-and-wind music was still flourishing in the mass cultural activities of towns and villages.
02 · Mastery & Signature Works
The bearer record for Liu Haimin is anchored in the documented technical standards of Hebei Wind and Percussion Ensemble in Yongnian, Hebei. Within the documented technical tradition of Hebei Wind and Percussion Ensemble in Yongnian, Hebei: Yongnian drum-and-wind is the most representative of the drum-and-wind music of southeastern Hebei, and one of the folk instrumental genres with the greatest influence in Hebei province. It is said that when Dou Jiande, leader of the rebel army at the end of the Sui dynasty, established his capital and proclaimed himself king at Yongnian, wind-and-percussion music already existed both in the army and among the people. From the middle of the Ming dynasty onward, drum-and-wind music gradually became mature and flourishing. The Yongnian County Gazetteer (Customs chapter), compiled during the Guangxu reign of the Qing dynasty, records that it was used in large quantities at the weddings, funerals and sacrificial rites of the people, handed down from generation to generation without interruption. Yongnian drum-and-wind has a variety of performing forms, chiefly wind music, percussion music and ka-xi. Its repertory is rich, comprising three kinds, miscellaneous named tunes, suites and wind-and-ka pieces; it has more than two hundred pieces in all and more than fifty named tunes, many of them peculiar to Yongnian. Common pieces include A Single Flower, The Taihang March, Little Donkey Herd, The Great Ascension, Carrying the Bridal Sedan Chair and Great Donkey Herd. Yongnian drum-and-wind is a local folk art form of great distinctiveness in Hebei province and precious material for the study and learning of Chinese folk music; its traditional performing methods, techniques and style offer much enlightenment for the development and innovation of contemporary national wind-instrument performance art in China. Funing drum-and-wind has a large repertory, traditionally described as “fourteen sets of named tunes, and ditties as numerous as the hairs of an ox”. The surviving pieces fall into five main categories — yangge tunes, great named-tune pieces, Han blowing tunes, flower-blowing tunes and miscellaneous tunes — numbering more than two hundred in all. Commonly used pieces include All Red, Every Line a Pair, Liu Qing Niang, The Little Mill, Embroidered Red Lantern and The Old Official Tune. The instruments of Funing drum-and-wind are highly distinctive in form: suona of different shapes are its leading instruments, and there are in addition the “ka-wan” bowl used in ka-xi, the “mouth organ” used in flower blowing and many other common instruments. Funing drum-and-wind has varied performing methods and unique techniques, among them xianshang, adding flowers, forming characters, flowered tongue, trilled finger, triple strong tone and colour change, as well as the playing of the three-section suona in the ways called “pulling out three sections”, “changing the hold” and “linked blowing”; the blowing is organically combined with bodily movement, and the performing style is rugged and powerful, lively and witty, ardent and humorous, with a strong flavour of the local soil. Funing drum-and-wind is used mainly to accompany weddings and funerals, New Year festivals and folk dances, and has always been warmly welcomed by the people. Representative repertoire, works and technical entries recorded for the project include: "A Single Flower": Common pieces of Yongnian drum-and-wind include A Single Flower, The Taihang March, Little Donkey Herd, The Great Ascension, Carrying the Bridal Sedan Chair, Great Donkey Herd and others of the kind. "The Taihang March": Common pieces of Yongnian drum-and-wind include A Single Flower, The Taihang March, Little Donkey Herd, The Great Ascension, Carrying the Bridal Sedan Chair, Great Donkey Herd and others of the kind. "Little Donkey Herd": Common pieces of Yongnian drum-and-wind include A Single Flower, The Taihang March, Little Donkey Herd, The Great Ascension, Carrying the Bridal Sedan Chair, Great Donkey Herd and others of the kind. "The Great Ascension": Common pieces of Yongnian drum-and-wind include A Single Flower, The Taihang March, Little Donkey Herd, The Great Ascension, Carrying the Bridal Sedan Chair, Great Donkey Herd and others of the kind.
A Single Flower
Common pieces of Yongnian drum-and-wind include A Single Flower, The Taihang March, Little Donkey Herd, The Great Ascension, Carrying the Bridal Sedan Chair, Great Donkey Herd and others of the kind.
The Taihang March
Common pieces of Yongnian drum-and-wind include A Single Flower, The Taihang March, Little Donkey Herd, The Great Ascension, Carrying the Bridal Sedan Chair, Great Donkey Herd and others of the kind.
Little Donkey Herd
Common pieces of Yongnian drum-and-wind include A Single Flower, The Taihang March, Little Donkey Herd, The Great Ascension, Carrying the Bridal Sedan Chair, Great Donkey Herd and others of the kind.
The Great Ascension
Common pieces of Yongnian drum-and-wind include A Single Flower, The Taihang March, Little Donkey Herd, The Great Ascension, Carrying the Bridal Sedan Chair, Great Donkey Herd and others of the kind.
03 · Transmission & Safeguarding Status
In 2025, Liu Haimin was announced in the sixth batch of national representative bearers for Hebei Wind and Percussion Ensemble, with Yongnian, Hebei as the declared area. Within the documented safeguarding record of Hebei Wind and Percussion Ensemble in Yongnian, Hebei: The project was inscribed in the national inventory in 2006 (batch 1), with Yongnian, Hebei as its declared area, and Handan Yongnian Qu Cultural Center as its safeguarding unit. Since the project was inscribed in the national inventory, its declared area and safeguarding unit have carried out documentation, transmission and presentation within the national safeguarding framework. Together, the inventory record and the project archive form the public documentary basis for the bearer’s transmission practice.
04 · Associated Heritage Item Dossier
Historical origin
Before the 1970s, the art of drum-and-wind music was still flourishing in the mass cultural activities of towns and villages.
05 · Fellow National Bearers Lineage
National representative bearers recorded under the same item code, ordered from the first to the sixth batch. Batch order is not a teacher–student relationship.
| Bearer | Declared area | Roster code | Relation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liu Hongsheng | Yongnian, Hebei | 02-0301 | Same declared area |
| Ren Lianyi | Funing, Hebei | 05-2082 | Other regional school |
| Liu Haimin | Yongnian, Hebei | — | This page |
06 · Archival Sources & Bibliography
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