Li Haiyan
Lineage & School of Heritage
He is the twenty-ninth-generation bearer of Pucheng ganhuo (pole fireworks).
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in December 1938 in Pucheng County, Shaanxi Province. He is a national representative bearer of Yanhuobaozhu Making Craftsmanship (Pucheng pole fireworks technique), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He began making pole fireworks in 1955 and has practiced the craft for more than sixty years. He has a thorough command of the core techniques, including mixing gunpowder, erecting frames, laying fuses and painting the exterior. The forms of the wenhuo (civil fireworks) and wuhuo (martial fireworks) pole pieces he makes include dozens of varieties drawn from opera, legend and architecture. Among them the laogan (old pole), polangan (basket pole), fire boat and fire horse are signature forms and representative works that set the atmosphere at the opening of a pole firework display. Between 1957 and 1960 he performed in Beijing on four occasions. In 1992 he was invited to Japan to take part in the celebrations of the tenth anniversary of Sino-Japanese friendship and to perform pole fireworks.
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