Guoluozheqiu
Lineage & School of Heritage
He grew up in a versatile family: his maternal uncle could build houses and lay stone walls, while his father made Tibetan boots, did carpentry and sewing, and built watchtowers. From the age of 21 the production team assigned him to build watchtowers. Although he had never formally apprenticed to a master, he relied on his intelligence and love of learning, steadily accumulated experience in practice, learned from folk building masters in various ways while teaching himself, and came to master watchtower construction comprehensively.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Tibetan ethnicity, born in March 1941 in Banma County, Qinghai Province. He is a national representative bearer of Watchtower Building Craftsmanship (Tibetan Watchtower Building Craftsmanship), a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is a watchtower-building technician. This craft requires a long period of study and involves many skills and considerable difficulty; only those who have mastered numerical calculation methods and possess a certain natural aptitude can succeed in learning it. He has practised Tibetan watchtower building for more than fifty years, and with his profound grounding and superb craftsmanship has become a watchtower-building master known throughout his locality.
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