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Wang Haoping

05-2839Niangzaojiuchuantong Brewing CraftsmanshipTraditional CraftsmanshipChangzhoushijintan, JiangsuBatch 5 (2018)

Lineage & School of Heritage

In 1980 he became an apprentice, learning brewing techniques from his grandfather, his maternal uncle and other masters.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Han ethnicity, born in May 1963 in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Representative bearer of traditional brewed liquor brewing craftsmanship (the traditional Fenggang wine brewing craft), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. A technician of traditional brewed liquor. In more than thirty years in the craft he has become highly skilled, with a sensitive touch, palate and sense of smell: he can measure temperature by hand and assess sugar content and alcoholic strength by taste with an error of less than one degree. During his tenure as chairman of Jiangsu Jintan Brewing Co., Ltd., he led his team in researching and drafting work instructions such as the Process for Reducing Sugar and Increasing Acidity in Fenggang Wine and the Process for Accelerating the Ageing of Fenggang Wine.

Honors & Recognition

He established an exhibition hall, produced a promotional film and trained a number of successor disciples, restoring the original and authentic character of Fenggang wine production and ensuring that it is better transmitted.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Wang Haoping · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Niangzaojiuchuantong Brewing Craftsmanship
Item code
Ⅷ-145
Category
Traditional Craftsmanship
Region
Changzhoushijintan, Jiangsu
Born
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Batch
Batch 5 (2018)

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