Wu Mingyue
Lineage & School of Heritage
He was born into a family of glove-puppet (budai xi) performers and learned the art from childhood under his father, Wu Yuanchang.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Born in February 1953, he is a man of Han ethnicity from Lingxi Township, Pingyang County, Zhejiang Province, an area that now falls within Cangnan County. His representative works include Bao Gong Judges Three Wrongs (Bao Gong Pan San Yuan), Green Peony (Lu Mu Dan) and The Qilin Robe (Qilin Pao); he also wrote such pieces as Wu Song Beats the Tiger (Wu Song Da Hu) and Nezha Conquers the Sea (Nezha Nao Hai), and released audio-visual recordings including The Male and Female Jade Cups (Ci Xiong Yu Bei). In 1988 he became a committee member of the Cangnan County Federation of Literary and Art Circles. In 1991 he served as secretary-general of the Cangnan County Opera Association. In 1997 he became vice-chairman of the same association. In recent years he has taken on a number of apprentices.
Honors & Recognition
He is a representative bearer of puppetry (single-operator glove puppetry), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He has successively been awarded the titles of one of the Ten Leading Folk Artists of Cangnan County, one of the First Outstanding Local Talents of Cangnan County, and a Cultural Demonstration Household of Cangnan County.
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