Zhang Fengxue
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Male, of Han ethnicity, born in September 1939 in Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province. National representative bearer of Chupizhi (Broussonetia Bark Paper) Making Craftsmanship, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. A technician of chupi paper making. From the age of 13 he learned chupi paper making with his family, and he became proficient in the entire sequence of work: gathering the bark in the mountains, steaming, rolling, washing, treading in a pestle, cutting and turning, beating the pulp, lifting the sheet and drying it. Building on the experience of his forebears, he continually improved the technique, and after repeated trials he finally produced a large sheet of bark paper measuring 44 by 92 centimetres. During the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games he went to the capital for more than eighty days to demonstrate papermaking, attracting the attention of numerous domestic and foreign media outlets and scholars. He has demonstrated and taught papermaking in many parts of China and was invited to the United States to give demonstrations. He has been engaged by the Xi'an Mass Art Centre as a folk artist.
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