Lin Shimin

05-2411Shadow PuppetryTraditional OperaGaizhou, LiaoningBatch 5 (2018)

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Female, Han ethnicity, born in January 1960 in Gaiping County, Liaoning Province. She is a performing artist of Gaizhou shadow puppetry. Fond of shadow puppetry from childhood, she joined the Sansheng Shadow Puppet Troupe at the age of 13, and at 18 she took the famous Gai County (present-day Gaizhou City) shadow puppeteer Wang Shengtai as her teacher to learn the sheng and dan roles; in 1987 she became head of the Sansheng Shadow Puppet Troupe, mastering manipulation, singing and carving in a comprehensive and thorough way and gradually forming a delicate and softly expressive performance style. In 1993 she and others raised funds jointly to establish the Gaizhou City Folk Shadow Puppet Art Troupe, which has remained active in the towns and countryside of Gaizhou throughout the year.

Honors & Recognition

Representative bearer of Shadow Puppetry (Gaizhou Shadow Puppetry), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. She took an active part in the compilation of the Liaoning Volume of the Annals of Chinese Opera, has trained a number of transmitters, and has repeatedly taken part in intangible cultural heritage exhibitions, promotional events and international academic exchanges, receiving many important awards.

References & Archival Sources

Lin Shimin · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Shadow Puppetry
Item code: Ⅳ-91
Category: Traditional Opera
Region: Gaizhou, Liaoning
Born: —
Batch: Batch 5 (2018)

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