Chen Siwei
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han Chinese, born in September 1963 in Hejiang County, Sichuan Province. He is a national representative bearer of Soy Sauce Brewing Craftsmanship (Xianshi Soy Sauce Brewing Craftsmanship), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Since joining the factory to learn the craft from his teachers in 1985, he has devoted himself to studying the traditional techniques of Xianshi soy sauce and has mastered the brewing process. He is currently deputy technical director of Hejiang County Xianshi Brewing Food Co., Ltd. His representative skills are the steaming and simmering of soybeans, mixed koji making, high-salt dilute and solid-state fermentation, sun-drying by day and dew-exposure by night, the leaching of qiuzi (autumn mash), and blending, sterilisation and clarification.
Honors & Recognition
From 1999 he served as head of production technology at the Xianshi Brewing Food Factory in Hejiang County, Luzhou City, where he was responsible for maintaining more than six hundred century-old sun-drying vats and for the protection and repair of the century-old factory buildings.
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