Chen Xingguo

02-0343Dragon DanceTraditional DanceFenghua, ZhejiangBatch 2 (2008)

Lineage & School of Heritage

Chen Xingguo was born into a family of dragon dancers; he absorbed the art of his elders from childhood and studied under Chen Shixiong, Chen Yinkang, Fan Chengmao and others.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1961 in Fenghua, Zhejiang. From the age of seventeen he took part in the village youth dragon-dance team and carried the dragon head. He not only inherited the fine traditional routines of the Fenghua cloth dragon but also created more than ten new figure movements and routines, lending the Fenghua cloth dragon greater appeal. Chen Xingguo is not only an accomplished dragon dancer but also a skilled craftsman; the cloth dragon props he makes are lifelike in appearance, bright in colour, light in the body yet solid and durable.

Honors & Recognition

National representative bearer of Dragon Dance (Fenghua Cloth Dragon), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. For many years Chen Xingguo has devoted himself to teaching the Fenghua cloth dragon; he has trained more than ten youth dragon-dance teams for local primary schools and has also been invited to Guixi in Jiangxi and to Wenzhou, Huangyan, Tiantai, Zhoushan and Jiaxing in Zhejiang to pass on the skills of the Fenghua cloth dragon.

References & Archival Sources

Chen Xingguo · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Dragon Dance
Item code: Ⅲ-4
Category: Traditional Dance
Region: Fenghua, Zhejiang
Born: 1961.04
Batch: Batch 2 (2008)

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