Chen Zifu
Lineage & School of Heritage
From childhood he learned the basic skills of fan making from his father while studying painting under the traditional Chinese painter Xiao Shichen.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in December 1948 in Chongqing. He is a national representative bearer of Fan Making Craftsmanship (Rongchang Folding Fan), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is a senior craft artist and a Master of Arts and Crafts of Chongqing Municipality. In 1962 he entered the Rongchang Folding Fan Factory and became a pupil of the fan maker Hu Jishan, while learning the lacquer carving of fan ribs from the renowned master Liu Hanqing and rib shaping from Cai Junliang. He is skilled in fan-rib carving, fan-rib pyrography, fan-rib shaping, the threading of fan leaves and fan-face painting. In 1996 he founded the Songzhuxuan Fan Workshop in Rongchang County to transmit and promote the art of Rongchang folding fans, and developed grass-cloth (xiabu) folding fans and grass-cloth fan painting.
Honors & Recognition
His works have won numerous national and municipal grand prizes. The bamboo-cased grass-cloth fan won a gold prize at the First China Tourism Souvenir Design Competition sponsored by the National Tourism Administration and was collected by the China Fan Art Museum.
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