Zhang Haosheng
Lineage & School of Heritage
He loved Wuxi mountain songs from childhood and studied under several famous Wu Song masters, including Zhu Hairong and Qian Afu.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
A singer of Wu Songs. For many years he devoted himself to performing and promoting Wu Songs and to transmitting Wu Song culture.
Honors & Recognition
Male, Han ethnic group, born in September 1946, died in October 2015, a native of Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. National representative bearer of Wu Songs, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He inherited and mastered long Wu Songs and the mountain songs of work and daily life, and building on traditional singing methods he created a new form of Wu Song performance that won broad recognition in the field and repeatedly took the highest prize in provincial, municipal and district competitions. In 1995 he collected a group of rice-husking work songs and re-created them while preserving their original flavour; with the piece Long Kou Li Zhenzhu Pen Man Chang (Pearls Spraying from the Husking Mortar Across the Threshing Floor) he won first prize at the first Wu Song Grand Competition and was awarded the title King of Wu Songs.
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