Yuan Xiuying

03-1230Paper-cuttingTraditional Fine ArtsZherong, FujianBatch 3 (2009)

Lineage & School of Heritage

In junior middle school she studied under the Taiwanese painter Huang Qilong, laying a solid artistic foundation for her paper-cutting.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Female, of the Han ethnic group, born in July 1929, a native of Zherong County, Fujian Province. Influenced by her mother from childhood, she took to paper-cutting at an early age. Her works generally employ a flat compositional method in which the whole sheet is filled with evenly arranged motifs linked one to another; with little empty space left in the picture, they are strongly decorative and carry a pronounced local flavor.

Honors & Recognition

A national representative bearer of Paper-cutting (Zherong paper-cutting), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Such representative works as Long Feng Cheng Xiang (Dragon and Phoenix Bring Prosperity), Si Xi Tu (Picture of Four Joys), and Bai Niao He Xie Tu (Picture of a Hundred Birds in Harmony) have been shown in exhibitions of various kinds and have won awards; in 2007 she received a lifetime achievement award at the Third International Paper-cutting Art Festival, organized by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and other bodies. She has long devoted herself to training successors in Zherong paper-cutting.

References & Archival Sources

Yuan Xiuying · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Paper-cutting
Item code: Ⅶ-16
Category: Traditional Fine Arts
Region: Zherong, Fujian
Born: 1927.07
Batch: Batch 3 (2009)

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