Gu Zhiyan
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnic group, born in 1940 in Xixiu, Guizhou.
Honors & Recognition
A representative bearer of Anshun Di Opera, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1955 Gu Zhiyan became a disciple of Yang Bingqing to study Anshun Di Opera, and in the 1990s he passed it on to his own son and grandson. He has a thorough and deep command of the history, repertoire and performance techniques of Di Opera, with Si Ma Tou Tang (Four Horses Return to Tang) as his signature piece. He is an important seventeenth-generation bearer of Anshun Di Opera and won first prize at the Anshun Folk Art Festival in 1997.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Anshun Di Opera Ⅳ-90
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