Yu Lianghua
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in October 1943 in Chongqing Municipality. From childhood he was steeped in the singing of his elders and neighbours and came to love mountain songs. In the 1960s he studied mountain-song singing with Bai Bingcheng, a Chongqing folk singer renowned for improvising words as he sang; after becoming a music teacher in 1976 he brought the songs into school teaching, and after retiring in 2006 he taught singing in his community. He is skilled in more than twenty Mudong mountain-song modes, including the high-register, low-register and level-register helai, pan ge and stonemason's work chants; he can sing nearly one thousand mountain songs and has composed and arranged more than ten items, among them Yingqin (Welcoming the Bride). He was invited to record for a China Central Television programme and has several times travelled to the Taiwan region and to Japan for cultural exchange.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Mudong Mountain Songs, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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