Peng Jilong
Lineage & School of Heritage
At the age of fifteen he followed his father Peng Wugeng from house to house, learning the craft as his father officiated at rituals.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Tujia, born in November 1949, a native of Longshan County, Hunan Province. A performer of the Tujia timage songs. He grew up in an area where the Tujia people live in concentrated communities and was deeply nurtured by Tujia culture. In the course of this he learned such feats as timage ritual performance, climbing the ladder of knives, biting red-hot iron, treading on heated iron, the immortal's fixing of a chicken, and the fairy and bamboo, among which climbing the ladder of knives and biting red-hot iron were his most outstanding skills. In 1998 he took part in performances for a Taiwanese folk-culture study delegation. In 2005 he performed in the ethnic cultural show of the Hunan-Hubei-Chongqing border area held during the National Paragliding Championship. In 2006 he performed for four hundred travel agencies at Wulong Mountain in Zhangjiajie. In 2007 he took part in the second Baishou (hand-waving) dance performance of the Xiangxi Liye Qin bamboo-slip cultural tour. From 2008 to 2011 he performed in the Shengfeng Lake scenic area at Zhangjiajie.
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of the Tujia timage songs, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 2007 he was conferred the title of Bearer of Ethnic Folk Cultural Heritage of the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture by the People's Government of that prefecture.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Tujia Timage Ⅰ-80
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