Cai Wanxiang
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han ethnicity, born in 1940, a native of Dongshan, Fujian. She was an employee of a grocery store in Dongshan. Steeped in her family's artistic tradition from childhood, she came to love the art of singing gece, the narrative song booklets of Dongshan. Her singing is bright, refined and vivid. She has an exceptional memory: from the hundred volumes of gece preserved in her household she can sing at will, and she can recite and perform the classic passages from memory, reproducing every plot of a booklet accurately and vividly through its rhymes. Her representative works include Sui Chao (The Sui Dynasty), Bao Gong Chu Shi (The Birth of Lord Bao), Wan Hua Lou (The Tower of Ten Thousand Flowers) and Di Qing.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Gece (Dongshan Gece), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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