Jian Boyuan
Lineage & School of Heritage
He learned daliuzi percussion from childhood under his father Jian Caizhou, and from 1957 took part in folk performance occasions such as weddings and funerals, New Year lantern festivities, and birthday celebrations with the presentation of inscribed plaques.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Tujia ethnicity, born in May 1944, a native of Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County, Hubei Province. In more than sixty years of practice he has gained a thorough command of the various qupai of daliuzi and is expert in the playing techniques of its instruments, the drum, gong and cymbals, being especially skilled as drum leader: he can direct the ensemble's opening, development, transition and close through a rich vocabulary of drum patterns and hand gestures, inspiring and coordinating the players. His representative pieces include Shang Tianti (Climbing the Heavenly Ladder), Long Hu Dou (Dragon and Tiger in Combat), Dui Luohan (Stacking the Arhats), Jitou (Chicken Head), Pu Deng'e (Moth Darting at the Lamp) and Hama Da Zui (Frog Snapping its Mouth). He has devoted himself to transmitting daliuzi, training close to a hundred successors and collecting and collating more than a hundred daliuzi qupai.
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Tujia Daliuzi Percussion, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He has repeatedly led his troupe to prizes in national, provincial and municipal competitions.
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