Chengzhangqing
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
He was a man of Han ethnicity, born in October 1933 in Wuyuan County, Jiangxi Province. From 1955 he learned nuo dance from the village's veteran artists Hu Xulin, Cheng Renjin and Hu Guishu, and thereafter took part in the nuo dance performance at Changjing Village on the second day of the first lunar month every year. When Changjing Village formed an amateur nuo dance troupe in 1958, he became one of its members. In his spare time he has voluntarily conducted nuo dance training and promotional activities in primary and secondary schools, promoting the transmission and dissemination of Wuyuan nuo dance.
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Nuo Dance (Wuyuan Nuo Dance), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1984 he taught Changjing nuo dance at the Wuyuan County Cultural Centre and has since trained outstanding disciples including He Baikun and Wang Shukun. In 2005 he took part in the China Jiangxi International Nuo Culture and Art Week, jointly sponsored by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the People's Government of Jiangxi Province and the China Folk Literature and Art Association, and won a gold award.
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