Li Yongge
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1975 he joined the Palace Museum, where he studied ancient-architecture woodworking under Dai Jiqiu and went on to spend many years maintaining and conserving the museum's historic buildings.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in November 1955 in Huanghua, Hebei Province. He is a national representative bearer of Guanshi Ancient Architecture Building Craftsmanship (the Forbidden City, Beijing), a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is a research curator. He inherited his master's large-woodwork techniques, especially the making and installation of the various types of bracket sets (dougong), and has extensive experience in this field. He has directed and taken part in several dozen projects involving the maintenance, dismantling and major repair, renovation and reconstruction of historic buildings at the Palace Museum. He led the compilation of the Technical Operating Procedures for Ancient-Architecture Woodwork and the Quotas for Ancient Architecture (Woodwork Section). He places emphasis on transmitting the craft and has taken on apprentices including Shen Pengfu and Wang Liying.
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