Tanxiaoming

02-0342Dragon DanceTraditional DanceChangxing, ZhejiangBatch 2 (2008)

Lineage & School of Heritage

He studied under Wang Changgen, sixth-generation transmitter of the Changxing Baiye Long (Hundred-Leaf Dragon), beginning in 1967 to learn dragon framing and dragon dancing; after 1980 he took up the dragon head and assumed responsibility for all affairs of the Baiye Long performance in Tianpingqiao Village.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1949 in Huzhou, Zhejiang. Building on the existing movements, Tanxiaoming developed such figures as the roaming dragon, the rolling dragon, the dragon coiling around a pillar, the soaring dragon, the crouching dragon, the sleeping dragon, the dragon emerging from the water and the dragon flicking its whiskers. At the age of fifty-five he handed the burden of the dragon head to his son Tan Yong. In 2004 Changxing County established twelve Baiye Long art training bases, and he was engaged as chief artistic adviser to the Baiye Long training bases, passing on dragon-dance skills and prop-making techniques without reservation.

Honors & Recognition

National representative bearer of Dragon Dance (Changxing Baiye Long), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. By the end of the twentieth century he had personally trained more than twenty Baiye Long performers in his own village.

References & Archival Sources

Tanxiaoming · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Dragon Dance
Item code: Ⅲ-4
Category: Traditional Dance
Region: Changxing, Zhejiang
Born: 1949.11
Batch: Batch 2 (2008)

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