Chinese Craft Stories NATIONAL HERITAGE INVENTORY
Home / Bearers / 04-1907

Wang Qingai

04-1907Chuantongmianshi Making CraftsmanshipTraditional CraftsmanshipJishan, ShanxiBatch 4 (2012)

Lineage & School of Heritage

She is the wife of Zhao Tianlu, sixth-generation transmitter of the century-old Jishan firm Zhao's Four-Flavor Workshop, and at the age of fifteen began learning the Jishan fried dough twist making technique under Zhao Ruihong, the fourth-generation transmitter.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Female, Han ethnicity, born in April 1961 in Jishan County, Shanxi Province. National representative bearer of Traditional Wheat-Flour Food Making Craftsmanship (Jishan Traditional Pastry Making Craftsmanship), a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Fifth-generation transmitter of the Jishan traditional pastry making technique. Through repeated practice and exchange with local veteran technicians she has become thoroughly proficient in every stage and key technique of fried dough twist making; she works strictly in accordance with the ancestral precept that no flour other than that of the first bolting is to be taken and no oil other than that of the first pressing is to be used, and with the eighteen traditional procedures, and she has abandoned the old household-workshop mode of production, combining the inherited craft with modern technology to develop the Four-Flavor Workshop brand series of fried dough twists and to expand the scale of production. Since 2005 she has recruited apprentices and drawn people from the wider community into training, regularly selecting trainees of outstanding overall quality to take part in exhibitions and exchange programs, so that the traditional Jishan fried dough twist technique is carried forward.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Wang Qingai · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Chuantongmianshi Making Craftsmanship
Item code
Ⅷ-160
Category
Traditional Craftsmanship
Region
Jishan, Shanxi
Born
1961.04
Batch
Batch 4 (2012)

This static English edition is rendered at the edge for search engines, AI crawlers and readers without JavaScript. Compiled from official national representative bearer archival records, organized by topic and translated into English. 阅读中文版。