Yang Zaixian
Lineage & School of Heritage
At thirteen he studied the lanhua (female) role under Shi Laoqi, a veteran Bengbu huagudeng artist, and at fourteen he began performing formally in the lantern dance.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
His stage name was Xiao Hong Xie (Little Red Shoes). He excels in dance steps and draws nourishment from the various folk dances current in the region; his footwork is nimble and delicate, his carriage alluring, and his style is characterised as qiao (jaunty), lang (flirtatious) and cui (crisp). In the vocal style of the dengge (lantern songs) he is adept at weaving the tunes of local operettas from the Huaibei area naturally and aptly into huagudeng songs, giving them fresh invention and development; his representative piece Zhao Ji (Looking for the Chicken) was adapted from the Huaibei flower-drum opera Wang Po Ma Ji (Old Woman Wang Curses the Chicken). The celebrated huagudeng artist Shi Chuncai was his disciple.
Honors & Recognition
He was a man of Han ethnicity, born in 1922 in Huaiyuan County, Anhui Province, and died in November 2010. He was a national representative bearer of Huagudeng (Bengbu Huagudeng), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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