Li Faer
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1967, in his home town, he began papermaking under folk papermaking artisans and came to master the craft completely.
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Born in August 1950 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, he is of Han ethnicity. He is a national representative bearer of Zhuzhi Making Craftsmanship, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is a technician of bamboo paper making. He was born into a farming family and once served as the person in charge of a village-run yuanshu paper mill. In the 1990s he began to study the traditional bamboo paper making process, recovering and transmitting the traditional yuanshu paper making technique, and he collected and preserved a complete set of production tools for bamboo paper making. Drawing on years of accumulated experience, he made technical improvements to traditional yuanshu paper production that not only economised on bamboo fibre material but also solved the technical difficulty of making large sheets, improved paper quality and avoided problems such as greying of the bamboo paper and pale ink, producing high-grade yuanshu paper in a variety of specifications through this upgrading of the craft. He actively takes on apprentices and passes on the craft, attaches importance to training successors, and has promoted the transmission and development of bamboo paper making.
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