Wu Baochen
Lineage & School of Heritage
From childhood he learned Hezhen Yimakan narrative singing from his grandfather Wu Liangui and his uncle Wu Mingxin, and he chiefly performs such Yimakan passages as the Song of Chasing Out Demons and the Song of Blessing.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Hezhen, born in 1960, a native of Tongjiang, Heilongjiang. He is a retired cadre of the government of Jiejinkou Hezhen Ethnic Township, Tongjiang City. Over the years he has made outstanding contributions to inheriting and developing traditional Hezhen culture and to transmitting the endangered art of Yimakan narrative singing.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Hezhen Yimakan, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1992 he received an honorary award at the Third China Art Festival; in 1998 he won a singing award at the Heilongjiang Folk Singers Competition; and in 2001 he received a special award at the Sixth Wurigong Festival of the Chinese Hezhen people.
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