Wen Guiyuan
Lineage & School of Heritage
He is the third-generation bearer of the Zhuang three-part folk song transmission base; from the age of seven he learned Zhuang three-part folk songs from his father Wen Wende, by sixteen he had developed his own distinctive way of singing, and at eighteen he began performing on various occasions.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Zhuang ethnicity, born in February 1934 in Mashan County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. He has a thorough command of many local folk-song styles; his voice is high and penetrating, and he sings the leading first voice of the Zhuang three-part folk songs. He excels at improvised singing and answers in song with great fluency. He has devoted himself to transmitting Zhuang three-part folk songs: he has composed and arranged more than four thousand folk songs, organized the village Bailing singing team, and trained without charge more than one hundred singers and more than five hundred pupils at Anshan Primary School, many of whom have become core members of the Zhuang three-part folk song transmission ranks.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Polyphonic Folk Songs (Zhuang Three-Part Folk Songs), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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