Xu Zhongde
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1978 he became a pupil of Lu Weiqin, and he is now a fifth-generation transmitter of the tradition.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1934, a native of Hanchuan, Hubei. He is a professional performer of the narrative preaching genre known as shanshu. He has composed more than fifty shanshu scripts and adapted or transplanted more than one hundred and fifty others. In performance his articulation is crisp, his voice powerful and his delivery resolute, achieving the effect of flowers on the tongue, fragrance on the lips, colour in the face and light in the eyes; building on the established vocal idiom, he also created new tunes such as the comic aria, the yugu drum tune and the xiaoqu ditty. His representative works include Bai Gong Ji (The White Rooster), Xianglin Sao (Xianglin's Wife) and Dou E Yuan (The Injustice to Dou E).
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Hanchuan Shanshu, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Hanchuanshanshu Ⅴ-33
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