Yang Yinxi
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in November 1957 in Beijing. National representative bearer of the Pickled Vegetable Making Technique (the Liubiju Pickled Vegetable Making Technique), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. A pickled vegetable making technician at Liubiju. In 1980 he entered the Liubiju Pickle Garden and studied under Dong Zhiwu, the eleventh-generation bearer, coming to command the whole range of traditional pickling work: selection of materials, salting, storage and processing. The pickles he makes have a rich, lingering sauce aroma, a crisp and tender texture, a balanced salty-sweet taste and a fine lustre. He has taken disciples since 1987, bringing up more than ten, including Wang Yingping and Cui Fugang, and has taken part in many display events.
Honors & Recognition
In transmitting the craft he has emphasised product development: in 1989 he co-designed and produced sweet-sauce long shredded vegetables, sweet-sauce oil-splashed cucumber strips and sweet-sauce palace-style small cucumbers, which were shown at the Second New Product Exhibition of the Beijing Municipal Economic Commission and won a third prize. In 1993 he co-designed and developed bottled sweet-sauce small cucumbers for the Fourth New Product Exhibition of the Beijing Municipal Economic Commission, winning an outstanding third prize.
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