Yang Zhanyao
Lineage & School of Heritage
Yang Zhanyao was born into a papermaking family and is the twelfth-generation inheritor of the Jiajiang bamboo-paper making craftsmanship passed down in his family. After graduating from junior middle school, he learned the craft from his father. In 1980 he began working on his own and established a hand paper-scooping workshop, where he created large-format bamboo paper for calligraphy and painting in six-chi and eight-chi sizes.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in 1945, a native of Jiajiang, Sichuan. He is a national representative bearer of the Zhuzhi (bamboo paper) Making Craftsmanship, a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In the early 1980s, he successfully developed the Zhang'erpi (twelve-chi bolt) paper for calligraphy and painting. This large-format paper overcame the shortcomings of earlier papers: its fibers are fine, its tensile strength is high, it absorbs ink evenly, and it is white, dense, and well suited to both calligraphy and painting. In 2005, in order to ensure the transmission of this thousand-year-old traditional papermaking craft, which was on the verge of disappearing, he began collecting the full set of tools and implements needed for traditional bamboo-paper production and restored the seventy-two traditional papermaking procedures.
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