Li Tianming
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in 1940 in Yangxian, Shaanxi. At sixteen, Li Tianming joined the guangguang puppet theatre troupe of the Yangxian County Cultural Centre, where he studied Han diao guangguang under the guangguang master Li Deshan, known as “Little Oddity,” and came to master in full the entire body of routines and conventions of Han diao guangguang performance as handed down since the Ming and Qing dynasties. In 1985 he served as an instructor in the guangguang training class of the Yangxian County Cultural Centre, and afterwards joined a troupe as a singer of Han diao guangguang. His representative works include Er Xiang Gong Mai Shui (The Second Young Master Sells Water).
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Han diao guangguang, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1994 Li Tianming founded the Guangguang Opera Society, which has since given more than four hundred touring performances in Hanzhong and has trained a number of successors.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Handiaoguangguang Ⅳ-17
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