Rao Shiguang
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of the Gelao ethnic group, born in 1944 in Shiqian, Guizhou. Rao Shiguang began learning puppet theatre in 1953. As the fifth-generation transmitter of the Shiqian puppet tradition, over more than fifty years of performing practice he has mastered a rich repertoire and commands the complete skill set of blowing, plucking, singing and dancing. He has appeared at the various customary festivals every year; as the times have changed he has refined his librettos and his art to further its development, and he is devoted to the transmission of the rod-puppet tradition.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Puppetry (Shiqian puppetry), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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