Lu Guangzheng
Lineage & School of Heritage
At the age of fourteen, Lu Guangzheng entered the Dongyang Woodcarving School, and at fifteen he studied under Mr. Lou Shuiming, the celebrated 'champion flower-carver' of Dongyang, concentrating on figures and landscapes.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in 1945 in Dongyang, Zhejiang Province. National representative bearer of Dongyang Wood Carving, a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, and a master of Chinese arts and crafts. In 1965 he pursued advanced studies at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, after which he took charge of design at the research institute of the Dongyang Woodcarving General Factory; in 1985 he became director of the factory and concurrently principal of the Dongyang Woodcarving Technical School. Lu Guangzheng pursued the art of woodcarving with unremitting dedication for more than forty years, mastering a wide range of carving techniques and excelling in the overall and formative design of architectural wood decoration; he solved the historic problem that Dongyang woodcarving had been unable to produce large-scale works. He created more than four hundred art treasures on a great variety of themes, winning renown both in China and abroad. His representative works Bainiao Chao Feng (Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix) and Jinxiu Zhonghua (Splendid China) are displayed in the Zhejiang Hall of the Great Hall of the People, and San Ying Zhan Lü Bu (Three Heroes Battling Lü Bu) is held in the collection of the China National Museum of Arts and Crafts.
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