Lan Chenqi
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, She ethnic group, born in January 1938, a native of Jingning She Autonomous County, Zhejiang Province. She loved singing mountain songs from childhood, and after she married into Shuanghoujiang Village in Hexi Town, Jingning She Autonomous County, in 1955 she became a She singer well known near and far. Besides singing She historical songs, songs of daily life, work songs, story songs and love songs, she excels at on-the-spot improvisation, composing a song on the spur of the moment out of the practices of life and work, full of the flavour of everyday life. In 1994 she took part in a folk-song exchange at the Fukui Civic Folk Art Festival in Japan, carrying She folk songs beyond China's borders. In recent years, besides singing, transmitting and promoting She songs, she has served as chair of the Zhangchun branch of the Hexi Town Association for the Elderly, leading older people in taking an active part in the local development of cultural and ethical standards.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of She Folk Songs, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- She Folk Songs Ⅱ-7
- She Folk Songs Ⅱ-7
- She Folk Songs Ⅱ-7
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