Fenghuainv
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Born in August 1931 in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, he is of Han ethnicity. He is a national representative bearer of Dragon Boat Making Craftsmanship, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is a dragon boat maker. He began building wooden boats and farm boats in 1950, studying under his father Feng Tao and craftsmen of the Zhongtang shipyard, and came to command the traditional craft of dragon boat building in all its aspects. He has been involved in dragon boat building for more than sixty years and has built dragon boats to his own measurements for over thirty years, completing more than three hundred vessels in different specifications and types, including the traditional large-headed dragon boat, the standard dragon boat, the small dragon boat and the phoenix boat, a standard dragon boat for women, all distinguished by carefully considered forms and superb craftsmanship. While preserving the characteristics of the traditional craft, he combines new materials and new techniques so that it may be better transmitted today. He has passed the craft on to his son and his son-in-law.
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