Zhang Mingguang
Lineage & School of Heritage
Zhang Mingguang received personal instruction from his master Qin Enru from childhood and came to master completely the songs and dances of the great and small Tujia hand-waving dances as well as the ritual procedures of the Sheba Ri festival, becoming the twenty-fifth-generation tangtang shi (ritual master) of the hand-waving dance.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Zhang Mingguang, a male of Tujia ethnicity, was born in 1938 in Longshan, Hunan. His dance postures are natural and unrestrained, and his voice is high and resonant.
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Tujia Hand-waving Dance, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Besides teaching the hand-waving dance in his own locality, where he trained such performers as Hu Qingwen, Tian Chengde and Qin Enrui, he has been invited several times to Changsha, Jishou, Zhangjiajie and other places to take on disciples and pass on the art, making an important contribution to the transmission and development of the Tujia hand-waving dance.
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