Wan Shaobi
Lineage & School of Heritage
She comes from a family of zhacai makers and is the sixth-generation bearer of the craft.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han Chinese, born in July 1963 in Chongqing. She is a national representative bearer of Traditional Zhacai Making Craftsmanship (Fuling Zhacai Making Craftsmanship), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. She is a senior technician and a Fuling zhacai making technician. From childhood she received the family's true transmission and is familiar with and has a comprehensive command of every traditional process in Fuling zhacai making. In more than thirty years of practice she has conducted in-depth research on key techniques including the process, the recipe and the quality inspection methods for Fuling zhacai, and in 1995 she created the La Meizi (Spicy Girl) zhacai brand. She has successively developed production techniques for medium- and low-salt Fuling zhacai, low-salt pure-culture microbial fermentation of zhacai, and the recycling and processing of zhacai and its by-products, obtaining two national invention patents and two provincial or municipal scientific and technological achievements.
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