Zhou Shuying

04-1753Paper-cuttingTraditional Fine ArtsWei, HebeiBatch 4 (2012)

Lineage & School of Heritage

She studied under her father, Zhou Yongming, mastered the whole range of painting, cutting and dyeing skills, and brought to the highest level the technique and character of Yu County paper-cutting, in which cutting accounts for three parts and dyeing for seven.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Female, Han ethnicity, born in November 1964, a native of Yu County, Hebei Province. Steeped in her family's art from childhood, she was passionately devoted to paper-cutting. She pioneered new dyeing methods such as the spreading method, mist dyeing, layered dyeing and splashed ink, which enriched the craft of Yu County paper-cutting and gave it greater spirit. She has created more than eight hundred kinds of paper-cuts, including a hundred facial designs for opera masks, opera figures, and flowers, birds, fish and insects; her representative works include Along the River During the Qingming Festival, A Hundred Butterflies, Tree of Life, Rural Joy, Auspicious Colours and Peony.

Honors & Recognition

A representative bearer of paper-cutting (Yu County paper-cutting), a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1995 her works were entered in the First Chinese Clever Women Handicraft Competition and won an award.

References & Archival Sources

Zhou Shuying · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Paper-cutting
Item code: Ⅶ-16
Category: Traditional Fine Arts
Region: Wei, Hebei
Born: 1964.11
Batch: Batch 4 (2012)

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