Wangxigao
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1954 he joined the Meitaixiang song troupe and studied under Wang Xingzhou.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
He was a retired worker of the Shashi No. 1 Textile Mill. To date he has collected, adapted and independently composed more than seven hundred passages of Gupenge lyrics, preserving a large body of written and audio-visual material for the transmission of the genre. His rendition of Xiu He Bao (Embroidering a Pouch) was included in the Hubei Volume of the Collection of Chinese Folk Songs and in the Hubei Volume of the Collection of Chinese Quyi Music. Over the decades, the fruitfulness of his long research on and practice of Gupenge has led fellow practitioners to call him a living dictionary of the tradition.
Honors & Recognition
Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1928 and deceased in 2009, a native of Jingzhou, Hubei. National representative bearer of Gupenge, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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