Li Jingzhou
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Male, Han ethnic group, born in May 1954 in Dengfeng, Henan Province. National representative bearer of Dengfeng Yao Ceramic Firing Craftsmanship, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is a Dengfeng Yao ceramic firing technician. In more than thirty years of practice he has become thoroughly proficient in the full sequence of techniques: material selection, compounding, processing, forming, decoration and firing. From 1985 he began investigating Dengfeng Yao firing and ceramic kiln sites, collecting shards and kiln furniture specimens, and visiting veteran ceramic artisans and craftsmen, accumulating a large body of first-hand material.
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He subsequently founded Dengfeng Yao Ciyuan Technology Co., Ltd. and established the Dengfeng Yao transmission and protection base, devoting himself to the excavation, restoration, transmission and safeguarding of the traditional firing techniques of Dengfeng Yao pearl-ground wares and other varieties. To pass on this traditional craft, he has trained more than twenty students and apprentices, and has also taught Dengfeng Yao firing techniques to deaf and mute students at the Dengfeng Special Education School.
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