Ma Hucheng
Lineage & School of Heritage
He received a traditional private-school education in childhood and studied the Xiaojingwen (small scripture script) and related knowledge. He studied the chanting of Milagahei under the veteran folk artist Ma Shangwen (deceased), is thoroughly familiar with the traditional language and culture of the Dongxiang people, and can write and record Milagahei in the Xiaojingwen script with ease.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Dongxiang ethnicity, born in July 1953, a native of Dongxiang Autonomous County, Gansu Province. A singer of the folk long poem Milagahei. From his youth he could sing and chant the folk long poem Milagahei, which runs to more than four hundred and twenty lines, and he can perform its entire content. Under his transmission Milagahei has undergone considerable development.
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Milagahei, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He has devoted his life to singing and transmitting the distinctive folk art of the Dongxiang people, actively promoting the folk long poem Milagahei, actively teaching people to master the Dongxiang language and the Xiaojingwen script, and taking in a large number of disciples, so that a fixed body of singers has largely taken shape.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Milagahei Ⅰ-68
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