Meng Fanlin
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
In 1945 he began learning to sing dagu ge (drum songs) under his father, his uncles and other drum-song artisans of the older generation, steadily honing his skills in practice; with solid drumming and singing he performed more than one thousand drum songs, including Dao Shan Lai (Coming to the Mountains), which spread widely across northern Jiangxi. The Wuning drum songs he sang were adopted as teaching material by conservatories in Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan, and the Angjing ge (crane-neck song) he sang was entered as an item in the Dictionary of Chinese Music.
Honors & Recognition
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in December 1927 in Wuning County, Jiangxi Province, and died in November 2015. National representative bearer of Weeding Gong and Drum (Wuning Drum Songs), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Over the years he trained nearly one hundred drum artisans and nearly one thousand amateur singers for Wuning drum songs.
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