Han Shengyuan
Lineage & School of Heritage
His ancestral home was in Qinghai, and both his grandfather and his father, who had drifted to Xinjiang in their early years, were Hua'er singers.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
At the age of seven he was orphaned by a change in the family's fortunes. Building on his father's Hehuang Hua'er heritage, he drew on his own creative gifts to integrate traditional northwestern Hua'er organically with Xinjiang quzi, composing and performing in more than twenty melodic modes. Over his lifetime he composed more than six hundred Xinjiang Hua'er, his representative works including Huahua Garmei (Pretty Little Sister), Wo he Garmei yao tuanyuan (Little Sister and I Must Be Reunited), Wo de Hua'er (My Hua'er) and Amei shi jiuming de enren (Little Sister Is My Lifesaving Benefactor).
Honors & Recognition
Male, of Hui ethnicity, born in February 1921 in Hutubi County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and died in January 2011. National representative bearer of Hua'er (Xinjiang Hua'er), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He influenced and trained a large number of Xinjiang Hua'er bearers from various ethnic groups, many of whom have become well-known local singers.
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