Han Qixiang (1915-1989), a storyteller and actor in northern Shaanxi, China. Male, Han nationality, from Hengshan, Shaanxi. Blind at the age of 3, he studied art at the age of 13. At the age of 30, he can rap and sing dozens of books, and can play more than 50 kinds of folk songs. He is a blind actor in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area. He composed and performed more than 500 new paragraphs, and enthusiastically praised new people, new events and new trends. Joined the Communist Party of China in 1955. He is a member of the Fifth and Sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. His representative works include "Liu Qiao Reunion", "The Story of Turning Over", "The Great Victory in Yichuan", and "I Tell Chairman Mao a Story".
Han Qixiang, his works have a strong sense of life, with distinct characteristics of the times and folk art. He also reformed the musical accompaniment of storytelling, adding bangzi, playing board and other musical instruments, and creatively integrated the tunes of Northern Shaanxi folk songs Xintianyou and Daoqing, Wanwanqiang, Qinqiang, Meihu and other operas into the storytelling. The art form is fuller. What is especially commendable is that in the past few decades, he has overcome difficulties, insisted on going deep into the countryside, performed for the vast number of farmers, and set an example for the folk art world. In 1944, he went to Yan'an to compile and perform a new book, and founded the Quyi Museum in Northern Shaanxi. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as the director of the Northwest Quyi Improvement Association, the vice chairman of the China Quyi Research Association, the third and fourth members of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the first and second vice chairman of the China Quyi Artists Association and the chairman of the Shaanxi branch.
At the age of 9, Han Qixiang made his own sanxian playing and singing, which moved the artist Cao Blind and gave Qixiang a sanxian instrument. At the age of 13, his mother sold the melon fields and took 120 yuan as his tuition fee. Han Qin studied hard and practiced hard. He learned 10 books such as "Five Stars and Three Rings" and 300 physiognomy in 3 months, and he was full of teachers. He started his storytelling career, earning 120 yuan in half a year, and then performing in Yan'an. In the seventeenth and eighteenth years of the Republic of China, the mother and son were reduced to beggars again. He hung himself from starvation and was rescued by the poor boy Su Xiangcheng. Then they went to Shanxi with Xiangcheng to escape the famine. On the way, the ferry was in trouble. They were rescued ashore after drifting 40 miles on the boat, and then joined the artist to sing, fortune-telling and begging, and swore incense.
In the 19th year of the Republic of China (1930), after the brothers and sisters met, they returned to Hengshan with Xiangcheng, and Xiangcheng joined Liu Zhidan's Red Army. Han lived in northern Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia to survive. In the next year, when he entered the customs, he met Qiaoling, a younger sister who was born in Yaoxian County. Then Yu Xiangcheng matched and married Qiaoling. After the marriage, the suspect said that Qiaoling could not match the blind man, so she and Qiaoling said goodbye to each other. From then on, he ran alone, propagating the revolutionary principles of the Red Army by telling stories. During the activity, he got a tip from a villager and was able to escape the danger. He went to Wayao Castle at night and returned to Hengshan to start a family. When he met the White Army on the road, Han said that "Xia" Mizhi was beaten. When he met an official and businessman, the man said: "Go out and meet a blind man, a dead family." Han was beaten and scolded again.
In the 24th year of the Republic of China (1935), he hid the revolutionary slogan handed over to him by Xiang Su in Shiyaogou in a sanxian box. He went to Liujiazhai and was escorted to the bandit army by Captain Baojia. He was whipped, ironed, and burned by the enemy. If he didn't tell the truth, his cousin Yu Hanmin paid 6 yuan to be released on bail. When he returned to the village, he told the retired official Wang Laoman a story, and put the slogan on the king's robe. The next day, the king found out and did not dare to publicize it. Soon, he practiced his art in Wuhu Village, Zichang County, and worshipped Yang Shengbing, the commander of the Kuomintang garrison. Then, Yang Shengbing revolted and handed over all 13 guns in the stockade to the Red Army. The following year, the blind propagandist Gao Weiwang (a Communist Party member) was killed, Jing Wenbin's tongue was cut off, and Han and others turned to secret activities. During this period, he told stories for the poor for free, and did not perform for the rich, so he was nicknamed the poor blind man.