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Liu Guocheng

03-0820Hua'erTraditional MusicMin, GansuBatch 3 (2009)

Lineage & School of Heritage

From childhood he learned to sing hua'er with his father, Liu Liansheng; while competing at the large and small hua'er fairs of Minxian County, he influenced and opened up the hua'er singing of the Qinxu Mayecang Hua'er Beach fair and of the traditional temple fair on the second day of the second lunar month.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Han, born in October 1964, a native of Minxian County, Gansu Province. He is naturally endowed with a fine voice, and his singing brings out the most typical vocal characteristics of the southern-school Taomin hua'er of Minxian County. In recognition of his outstanding achievement in hua'er singing, he was named a Gansu Province hua'er singer by the Gansu Folk Literature and Art Association.

Honors & Recognition

National representative bearer of Hua'er (Erlang Mountain Hua'er Fair), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. The group of outstanding students he has trained has grown into the mainstay of the Minxian hua'er scene and become the successors who carry Erlang Mountain hua'er forward from generation to generation.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Liu Guocheng · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Hua'er
Item code
Ⅱ-20
Category
Traditional Music
Region
Min, Gansu
Born
1964.10
Batch
Batch 3 (2009)

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