Yegubai
Lineage & School of Heritage
From childhood Yegubai learned the Bonan waist-saber forging craft from his uncle Mahanaifei. At the age of seventeen his training was complete, and he began forging "Bonan waist sabers" in his own workshop.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
National representative bearer of Bonan Yaodao Forging Craftsmanship (Bonan Waist-Saber Forging Craftsmanship), a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. His signature craft was the forging of the "fish saber" (yudao), a blade of fine workmanship and handsome form, with a keen edge and remarkable spring when opened; the design of the spring on the back of the blade is especially ingenious.
Honors & Recognition
Male, of the Bonan ethnic group, born in 1930, died in 2009, a native of Jishishan, Gansu. In the spare hours of the slack farming season he produced a great many "fish sabers," and he also trained a group of successors.
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