Zhang Lianghua
Lineage & School of Heritage
Beginning at the age of 14, he studied the art of marionette puppetry successively under the Taishun puppeteers Zhou De and Huang Taisheng.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in March 1949 in Taishun County, Zhejiang Province. In 1963 he entered the Taishun County Puppet Art Troupe. In 1987 he served as executive director of Flaming Mountain. In 2010 he held a special exhibition on the puppet art of Wenzhou. In 2009 he was designated one of the first batch of outstanding folk artists and writers of Zhejiang Province. He has collected and collated a large quantity of materials on folk puppet theatre and a large number of actual puppets, including sixty-four scripts of traditional puppet plays, thirty-two props for marionette performance and fifty folk puppets.
Honors & Recognition
Representative bearer of Puppetry (Taishun Marionette Puppetry), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Since 2006 he has carried out annual programmes bringing puppet plays to the countryside and has held puppet art training classes, opening summer interest classes at Taishun Vocational High School and Wenzhou Vocational High School, and has trained a large number of enthusiasts for Taishun marionette puppetry.
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