Tang Mingzhe
Lineage & School of Heritage
He began learning to sing mountain songs in middle school, studying under Rao Jinsheng and Liang Daiying.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han, born in October 1934, a native of Meizhou City, Guangdong Province. He has devoted more than sixty years to singing and researching Hakka mountain songs; able to sing, play, perform, write and teach, he has rich experience and considerable accomplishment. His mountain songs have a strong local flavour and a distinctive melodic delivery, called the Tang style by specialists, and he is known as a master of Meizhou mountain songs. He has published seven monographs on mountain songs and has collected, compiled and published more than thirty volumes of traditional Hakka five-line bamboo-clapper songs.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Meizhou Hakka Mountain Songs, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. The China Quyi Artists Association conferred on him the title of Quyi Artist of Special Contribution. He has held many mountain-song training classes in villages, factories, universities, middle schools and primary schools, training more than ten thousand participants in all, and also serves as a visiting professor at colleges and universities, actively cultivating bearers of Hakka mountain songs.
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