Lang Zhili
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1957 she became a student of her father, Lang Shao'an, learning the art of dough figurine making. She inherited her father's technical characteristics and innovated upon them, creating gourd dough figurines, shell dough figurines, giant clam shell dough figurines and ostrich eggshell dough figurines, and developing the Lang school of dough figurine art.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Manchu ethnicity, born in September 1942, a native of Beijing. Specially appointed researcher in folk art creation at the Chinese National Academy of Arts. Representative works include The Eighteen Arhats, Shell Dough Figurine: The Boy Worships Guanyin and Giant Clam Dough Figurine: Blessings Fill the World. Her works have been exhibited and have won awards many times. She donated thirty-four dough figurine works for the activities of the 101st Session of the International Olympic Committee; Guan Gong, The God of Longevity and Mu Guiying Takes Command were collected by the Science Exploration Museum in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, and the Dream of the Red Chamber Figure Series was collected by the Chinese National Academy of Arts. Her apprentices include Li Mengmeng and Gao Yaqi.
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Dough Figurines (Beijing Dough Figurine Lang), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Dough Figurines Ⅶ-52
- Dough Figurines Ⅶ-52
- Dough Figurines Ⅶ-52
- Dough Figurines Ⅶ-52
- Dough Figurines Ⅶ-52
- Dough Figurines Ⅶ-52
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