Biography of Liu Xiaochun

Liu Xiaochun, male, Han nationality, born in November 1952, Hezhou City, Guangxi, Babu District, university culture, deputy research librarian, is currently the cultural center of Babu District, Hezhou National Tourism and Arts Vocational School, Standing Committee member of the Political Consultative Conference of Babu District, Hezhou City CPPCC Committee, standing director of the Yao Society of Guangxi, a member of the Chinese Dancers' Association, China Folk Literature and Artist Association, a nationally renowned expert of Yao studies, Yao dance experts, has published and written more than 20 papers in academic journals such as Social Sciences, Yao Studies, China Dance Forum, etc., and has published and written more than 20 papers. He is a national famous expert of Yao studies and Yao dance, and has published more than 20 papers in authoritative magazines such as Social Science, Yao Studies, China Dance Forum, etc. He has also published and written more than 1 million words of monographs, and his representative monograph "Mystery of Yao Dance in Guidong" is the world's first pioneering work which systematically discusses Yao dance, and it has been widely emphasized and praised by the academic circles. The folk dance works created by him have won many prizes in national and provincial competitions, and he has been honored with the Social Science Achievement Prize of the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China, the autonomous region, and the city of Hezhou. He has been awarded the title of "Top Talent" by the governments of Wuzhou, Hezhou and Hezhou, "Advanced Worker" by the Culture Department of the Autonomous Region, and "Advanced Worker in Vocational Education of the Region" by the Education Department of the Autonomous Region. Workers" honorary title.

Liu Xiaochun was born into a working class family. Due to the early death of his father, he dropped out of school at the age of 14 and entered the former Hexian Guangming Chemical Factory as a laborer, picking up the family's burden of living. However, the trials and tribulations of life have not annihilated his desire for knowledge, in a difficult environment, he always held a hard-working, optimistic attitude, when there was no money to buy books, he borrowed books to see. In the four years as a worker, he was hungry to read all kinds of books, and began to write poems and novels, published in regional and county publications. Due to the better writing, he was appointed as the principal of Hexian bright chemical plant workers' children's primary school at the age of 19, and was transferred to the county cultural center in October 1975 to work as the editor-in-chief of the publication "Fushan". 1977, the spring wind of reform blew on the land of China, and the whole country showed a school of young people's pursuit of learning and knowledge of the new style, in order to further enrich himself, he finished the junior high school, high school courses, and participated in the Guangxi Higher Self-Taught Examination in 1984, and after a hard time, he took the Guangxi Higher Self-Taught Examination, and was awarded the "Guangxi Higher Self-Teaching Examination". Guangxi higher self-study examination, after hard work, in 1986, 1996 has obtained self-study examination Chinese college diploma and Chinese language and literature undergraduate diploma, laid a solid literary foundation, for engaged in the study of national and folk culture, art creation has laid the foundation.

After entering the cultural center in 1975, through several years of practice, Liu Xiaochun realized the importance of national folk culture research and protection. From the early 1980s, he went to the countryside to collect wind. Over the past two decades, his footprints in every village in Babu District, in-depth to the Yao Shan Zhuang village, climbing mountains and wading through the water travel more than 60,000 miles, interviews with more than 3,000 folk artists, collect information more than 1 million words. The hard work of investigation, fruitful scientific research results. In the 80s of last century, the national social science key project - the national art science top ten integrated collection, writing work in full swing, he undertook the "Chinese national folk literature - Guangxi volume - Hexian compilation", "Chinese national folk dance - Guangxi volume - Hexian compilation" of the task of writing, after three years of hard work, finished the After three years of hard work, he completed the collection and preparation of two major collections of He County ballads, stories, legends and ethnic folk dances. Because of his excellent work, he was invited to Nanning by the editorial committee of the top ten integrations of the autonomous region to serve as the editor of "Chinese Ethnic Folk Dance-Guangxi Volume-Yao Dance", and he was honored as an advanced worker of the top ten integrations in 1990. In the early 1990s, on the basis of years of research on Yao dance, he compiled the book "Mystery of Yao Dance in Guidong", which is the first monograph in the world that systematically discusses Yao dance, and his research results are in the leading position in the country. In addition, he also compiled the research monograph of Zhuang culture in Guidong, "Spring Colors of Nanxiang", the folklore book of Hexian, "Hexian Xiangshangxiao", as well as academic works such as "Chinese Dance Record-Guangxi Volume", "General History of Yao - Yao Dance", "Guangxi Encyclopedia-Traditional Dance", etc. He also published a paper on Yao dance, "Trying to Discuss the Value and Position of the Dance Culture of the Long Drums in the Society of the Yao People", which was honored as the first prize of the Yao research results. In 2001, he was invited to attend the first China Dance Forum of China Dance Festival, and read a paper entitled "Trial Discussion on the Imbalance and Self-Renewal of Guangxi Ethnic Dance Culture Ecology", which has been included in the collection of papers of China Dance Forum. 2005 he presided over the declaration of intangible heritage items of Hezhou, namely "Yao Panwang Festival", and "Yao Clothing", which were awarded the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list issued by the State Council in 2006. In 2007, he presided over the Hakka Mountain Opera, which was successfully declared as an autonomous region-level intangible culture list. CCTV has reported on Liu Xiaochun's decades of dedicated research on national culture, which has caused a great deal of repercussions.

Liu Xiaochun's mother was a famous actress in the Guilin Gui Opera Troupe in Guangxi. As a result, he was nurtured by art as a child, showing in him a talent for art and a persistent pursuit of it. In his cultural work, he changed from the initial literary creation to dance creation. With the results of many years' dedicated research on Yao dance, the Yao dance he created in 1986, "Night of Singing Hall", won the third prize of choreography and performance in the First National Dance Competition. Since then, he began a career of dance creation. since the 1990s, he has created a number of works of literature and art in the national and autonomous regions in the dance competitions have won praise or awards, such as Yao dance "Yao shoes", "spring bells", "I came from the sea", "sky hat", "sacred drums" and other ethnic dance competitions in Guangxi have won a good result; Yao dance "Yao drums" to participate in the fourth national minority games opening ceremony of the "National Minority Games" and the "National Minority Games", the "National Minority Games opening ceremony of the "National Minority Games". Ethnic Minority Games opening ceremony of the "Light of the Nation" performance, received a huge response; Zhuang dance "board shoes to snatch the bride" won the highest award for Chinese folk arts and culture - the Mountain Flower Award and the Fifth China Folk Art Festival Special Award, dance "Hezhou Drum God," "Zhuangxiang Autumn Colors" won the gold and silver awards; acrobatic dance "Chinese Dragon Carrying the Head" was awarded the Gold Prize of World Chinese The stunt dance "Chinese Dragon Carrying Head" won the gold medal of the World Chinese Youth Art Festival and the special prize of the "Red Bronze Drum" competition of Guangxi secondary specialized art schools; the Yao dance "Panwang Da Ge" and the Zhuang dance "Embroidery Balls on the Moonlight" were awarded the first prize of the second and the third National Primary and Middle School Students' Art Exhibition, respectively. He has never received professional dance training, but became a nationally renowned dancer, known as the wizard of Guangxi dance industry, and made outstanding contributions to the cause of ethnic dance in Hezhou and even Guangxi.

As the director of the cultural center, organizing and planning large-scale activities of mass culture is also his main work. 1991 to 1992, he led more than 100 Yao youths in He County to take part in the opening ceremony of the Fourth National Minority Games, and as the choreographer and director of the fourth sub-scene of this cultural performance, he participated in the creation and learned a lot of new knowledge personally. 1990s, he has successively In the 1990s, he successively acted as the chief director of the opening ceremony of Hexian Merchants' Meeting in 1995, the opening ceremony of the 8th Hexian Games, the opening ceremony of the 1st Hezhou Games, and other large-scale square arts and cultural activities, and then acted as the chief director of the opening ceremony of the 1st Tourism and Culture Festival of Hezhou City, the opening ceremony of the 1st Hezhou City Games, the 7th to the 10th China Yao Pan Wang Festival, the 3rd and the 4th China Guilin Gongcheng Peach Blossom Festival, Hezhou City, the first culture and art festival, 2008 Huangdong Yao Panwang Festival, Babu District, the first Games, 2009 China (Hezhou) Yao Panwang Festival and other large-scale activities such as the opening ceremony of the general director of the cultural and artistic performances, the artistic approach to directing a unique artistic taste, the mass of people involved in the number of people, and has been the leaders, the masses of the highly praised.

Liu Xiaochun as a grass-roots cultural center curator, decades of hard work for the masses of cultural undertakings, in-depth to the factories, mines, villages, schools, institutions to counsel the masses of amateur arts groups, village arts team rehearsals, performances, rehearsal programs more than 100, performances of nearly 1,000, each year, counseling rehearsals, performances to more than 100 working days. 1995, Liu Xiaochun founded the Hezhou National Tourism Art Vocational School. In 1995, Liu Xiaochun founded Hezhou National Tourism Art Vocational School, more than a decade of remarkable teaching results, training more than 600 students specializing in folk dance, becoming a model for secondary vocational schools in Guangxi, the regional Department of Education for vocational education as a qualified school. Under the leadership of Liu Xiaochun, Babu District Culture Center has made great contributions to the inheritance and development of mass culture, and was awarded the honorary title of "National Advanced Collective for Serving Farmers and Grass-roots Cultural Construction" by the Central Propaganda Department of China, the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China, the General Administration of Press and Publication of the People's Republic of China and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television of China in 2008. In 2009, it was awarded the honorary title of "National Advanced Collective for Protecting Intangible Cultural Heritage" by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China, and it is the only county (district) cultural center in Guangxi that has won this honor. These achievements and honors, condensed with Liu Xiaochun decades of hard work and sweat, CCTV to "cultural curator" as the title of his special report.

Over the decades, Liu Xiaochun's persistent pursuit of the cause of mass culture and silent dedication to our national folk culture, mass cultural heritage to make outstanding contributions to our national cultural cause of the watchman.