Li Junfang
Lineage & School of Heritage
From the age of thirteen he studied the craft of suspended-platform shehuo with his grandfather Li Yangke and the veteran artist Yang Jinyu. Together with his father he organised and founded the largest peasant shehuo association in Yang County and a hundred-strong shehuo drum-and-gong band, raised more than 50,000 yuan for costumes and props, and provided his own eleven rooms and a courtyard of 500 square metres free of charge for the use of the association and the band.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in March 1929, a native of Yang County, Shaanxi Province. Through long artistic practice he developed shehuo facial make-up pigments that neither harm the tender skin of the children who play shehuo roles nor fade in sunlight.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Folk Shehuo (Yang County Suspended-Platform Shehuo), a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Under his careful training his son, Li Jianzhong, has become a national-level bearer of the suspended-platform shehuo.
References & Archival Sources
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