Chen Gaihong
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in November 1962 in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. He holds the senior professional title of arts and crafts artist. He began studying wood carving design and production in 1976. In 1981 he entered the Ningbo Arts and Crafts Research Institute, where he studied vermilion-and-gold lacquer wood carving and traditional techniques such as polychrome painting and gold leafing under Cao Houde, a specialist in Buddhist image making, and took part in the restoration of Tiantong Temple and Ayuwang Temple in Ningbo. In 1990 he founded the Ningbo Yinzhou Zhongyi Sculpture Factory, producing Buddhist images, ritual implements and craft objects. In 2010 he founded the Ningbo Vermilion-and-Gold Lacquer Wood Carving Art Museum. In 2012 he founded the Ningbo Vermilion-and-Gold Lacquer Wood Carving Culture Development Company, producing large numbers of vermilion-and-gold lacquer Buddhist images and ritual implements for famous monasteries in Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and for temples in Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries.
Honors & Recognition
He is a representative bearer of Ningbo Vermilion-and-Gold Lacquer Wood Carving, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. The vermilion-and-gold lacquer wood carving Wan Gong Hua Jiao (Bridal Sedan of Ten Thousand Workdays) won the gold award at the ninth China Folk Literature and Art Shanhua Award, jointly held by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Folk Artists Association.
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