Ji Guifang
Lineage & School of Heritage
At twelve he studied Taishun marionette performance under Huang Taisheng, and at fifteen he studied puppet design under the renowned sculptor Zhan Zhenhui.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
He later helped to establish the Taishun Arts and Crafts Factory, where he worked on the research and design of toys, serving successively as deputy director and director. He devoted his life to puppet design and to the carving of puppet heads; from the 1950s onward he created large numbers of marionette heads and glove-puppet heads, and he also attached great importance to collecting and organising puppet materials, assembling more than 120 puppet heads dating from the Ming and Qing dynasties to the Republican period and publishing materials such as Taishun Mu'ou (Taishun Puppetry).
Honors & Recognition
Male, Han ethnicity, born in January 1942 and deceased in July 2015, a native of Taishun County, Zhejiang Province. National representative bearer of Puppetry (Taishun Marionette Puppetry), a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He trained more than eighty apprentices, among whom Ji Tianyuan, Pan Chengsong, Shu Ceban, Zheng Daoquan and Chen Xuenong have become highly accomplished younger exponents.
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