Wang Mingjun

Wang Mingjun

Wang Mingjun, male, Han nationality, was born in Qishan County, Shaanxi Province in 1941. He is the sixth generation descendant of the Wang family of shadow play in Shaanxi West Road. He is good at shadow play engraving and performance.

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Wang Mingjun, male, Han nationality, was born in Qishan County, Shaanxi Province in 1941. He is the sixth generation descendant of the Wang family of shadow play in Shaanxi West Road. He is good at shadow play engraving and performance. His shadow puppets are exquisite in craftsmanship, vivid in color, and mainly show folk legends and stories, which are permanently collected by the China Folk Art Museum. In the shadow play performance, he is proficient in singing, reciting, writing, playing and picking up lines, especially the skill of picking up lines. He uses both hands to kill, chop, ride, change, swallow clouds and drive fog. His image is simple and vivid. He has performed for foreign heads of state for many times. In 2002, he won the gold award of "Nanjing Chinese folk auspicious Art Festival" performance, and in 2004, he was awarded "excellent folk arts and crafts artist" by Baoji Municipal People's government ”Title. In 2005, he was employed as "Research Fellow of folk art creation" by China Academy of Arts. Wang qingban, dengzhanwanqiang shadow play troupe. The ancestral family class was founded in 1662 by Wang Qing of Hejia village, Majiang township. At the beginning, Wang Qing performed with stringed banqiang. Wang Zhongqing of the second generation first performed xianbanqiang, and later changed it to Xifu dengzhanwanqiang. He worked in it for more than 40 years. In the heyday of the fourth generation, he changed it to Qinqiang, and extended it for another two generations, with more than 300 plays. In the past ten years, Wang Mingjun, the sixth generation successor, has led shadow puppet classes around the province, performing more than 2000 performances. In 1989, he performed for the visiting group of ambassadors of 13 countries in Beijing, which won high praise from foreign guests. Wang Mingjun is well-known in the folk art circles all over the country. His stage name is Wang Yunfei. Because of his high artistic talent, his stage name has spread like wildfire. His father's name of "Mingjun" has been ignored. His father is a famous shadow puppet designer, producer and performer. He is famous in Sanqin, Bo, Shan, Gan and Qing. He is a folk artist with both virtue and art. He named his eldest son "Shiming" because he admired the great talent of Li Shimin, the king of Tang Dynasty, and named his second son "Mingjun", hoping for peace and prosperity and prosperity. As a folk artist, of course, he could display his great vision and talent, which can be seen from his good intentions.

Personal achievement

The stage of shadow play is simple and practical. With rafters, planks and several reed mats, it can be quickly built on two square tables or a cart. Only about five people are needed for the performance, which are called "front voice", "signer", "back slot", "upper stage" and "lower stage". The lead singer of "Qiansheng" is Shengdan jingchou, who plays various roles, and also uses Yueqin, gongs and tanggudeng instruments. "Signer" mainly manipulates the action of movie player, with sound effect and dialogue filling. "Houcao", "Shangdang" and "Xiadang" play various musical instruments respectively. Yunfei is good at "hand signing". He manipulates the movie player to hold the blade, catch people immediately, fly through the clouds and fog, change hands, start and fall the knife, beat the chest, fall forward and squat back. All of them are vivid and vivid. Filmmaker is the core props of shadow play. A set of exquisite box bottom is a symbol of the company's level and grade. Generally, the signers are people who are talented, skilled and good at making shadow puppets. Since his founding, Wang qingban has insisted on making his own filmmakers and creating his own style. Wang Yunfei inherited the legacy of his predecessors. His homemade shadow puppet knife is meticulous, vivid in shape and bright in color. In addition, he is very popular with the masses. His shadow play works are collected by many lovers or used as decorations. Over the years, Wang Yunfei has been invited to perform many live performances for British, French, Japanese and Hong Kong guests. His shadow puppet team has performed more than 5000 times inside and outside the province. There is an endless stream of people who come to ask for advice, learn art and buy works. In 1989, Wang Yunfei's shadow play performance took part in the first Baoji folk art festival and won a high honor. Since 1991, China Folk Art Museum, poetry, calligraphy and Painting Academy of China Poetry and Wine Culture Association and China Academy of art have successively collected some of his ancestral shadow plays and his representative works. In September 1992, his ancestral shadow puppet won the "Flying Horse Award" in the second ancient culture and Art Festival; in 1998, he won the shortlisted excellent award and masterpiece award in the "Century Cup" Chinese arts and crafts creation exhibition; in 2002, he won the gold award of shadow puppet art in the first "Chinese national auspicious Art Festival" in Nanjing. Cao Zhenfeng, former deputy director of China Art Museum, inscribed a plaque of "shadow art Yunfei" to Wang Yunfei. In the same year, Wang Yunfei was employed as a national artist by the National Art Research Office of Nanjing University. In 2003, Baoji Municipal People's Government awarded Wang Yunfei the title of "excellent folk artist". Wang Xiuling, 39, is the seventh generation successor of Wang's shadow play art. Influenced by her father, Wang Xiuling inherits her ancestral career. In 2002, her works won the gold award of shadow sculpture in the first Chinese folk auspicious Art Festival in Nanjing, and the silver award of the 2007 first Chinese folk arts and crafts "local Award" held by the folk arts and crafts professional committee of China Arts and Crafts Society. Shadow play works "Romance of the Western Chamber", "Yang Zongbao vs. Mu Guiying", "Farewell My Concubine" won the first prize in "knowing honor and disgrace, promoting harmony, welcoming the Olympic Games, striving to be a civilized citizen; the first national youth cultural and artistic works collection and exhibition activity". In 2007, he participated in the 22nd annual meeting of folk arts and crafts professional committee of China Arts and Crafts Association and Shandong Rizhao modern farmer painting seminar, and published a paper "Xifu shadow play art is deeply rooted, leaves are luxuriant, flowers are more red" which was issued a certificate by China Arts and Crafts Association.

Chinese PinYin : Wang Ming Jun1