Lin Congpeng
Lineage & School of Heritage
From childhood he studied Quanzhou marionette head carving under his elder brother Lin Congquan.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in September 1964, a native of Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. He is a craftsman of Quanzhou marionette production. In February 1978 he entered the Quanzhou puppet class of the Fujian Art School, majoring in the art of puppet-head carving. Through more than thirty years of study and practice he has fully inherited and thoroughly mastered the carving and polychrome painting of Quanzhou marionette heads. Plays for which he carved and created the puppet heads have been nominated for the National Stage Art Excellence Project, his works are held by the Hong Kong Museum, and he has taken part in nearly eighty visiting performances in close to forty countries and regions, exerting considerable influence at home and abroad. In order to rescue traditional repertoire he carved a great many puppet heads, and he has passed on the carving and polychrome painting of traditional Quanzhou marionette heads to his disciple Chen Junxiang.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Puppetry (Quanzhou Marionette Theatre), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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