Jin Songqun
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1963 he was apprenticed to a master and took up the painting and heat-embossing processes of Changzhou comb making.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in April 1943 in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. He is a Jiangsu Provincial Master of Arts and Crafts. For more than fifty years he has devoted himself to the production of Changzhou combs, to product development, and to the transmission and innovation of the craft, developing combs from a single utilitarian article into objects for daily use, articles of artistic appreciation, tourist souvenirs and collectibles. He founded the Changzhou Comb Museum, and the Changzhou Comb Factory Co., Ltd. under his direction has been designated a China Time-honored Brand. He was designated a notable figure of the Three Leads rural talent programme of Jiangsu Province by the Organization Department of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and other departments, and his studio was named the Jin Songqun Master Craftsman Studio for the Transmission of Historical Classic Crafts by the Changzhou Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau.
Honors & Recognition
Representative bearer of Changzhou Shubi (Changzhou comb), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. His works have repeatedly won gold and silver awards at national, provincial and ministerial level. He regularly takes part in intangible cultural heritage demonstrations at home and abroad and has trained six intangible cultural heritage bearers at provincial, municipal and district level.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Changzhou Shubi Ⅶ-68
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