Ni Youzhi

04-1757Paper-cuttingTraditional Fine ArtsTonghua, JilinBatch 4 (2012)

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Female, Han ethnicity, born in January 1939, a native of Tonghua County, Jilin Province. At the age of seven she began learning paper-cutting from her mother and maternal grandmother. In 1987 she joined the Jilin Provincial Folk Painting and Calligraphy Research Society as a council member. In 2003, fifteen of her paper-cuts were collected by the National Art Museum of China.

Honors & Recognition

A representative bearer of paper-cutting (Changbai Mountain Manchu paper-cutting), a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. A master of arts and crafts of Jilin Province and a recipient of the Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Transmission Award of the Chinese Academy of Arts (China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Centre). Her works carry the primitive cultural information and totem worship ideas peculiar to the north, and have been exhibited and won awards many times. She attaches importance to transmitting the craft: younger members of her family have learned paper-cutting from her since childhood, and she has also brought Changbai Mountain Manchu paper-cutting into primary, secondary and university classrooms in order to train the next generation of transmitters.

References & Archival Sources

Ni Youzhi · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Paper-cutting
Item code: Ⅶ-16
Category: Traditional Fine Arts
Region: Tonghua, Jilin
Born: 1939.01
Batch: Batch 4 (2012)

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