Zhangxianzhong
Lineage & School of Heritage
Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Tibetan liugu gilding craft has been handed down through the generations in the family of his uncle, Master Danzhengjia. His nephew A Shengxi and his son Zhang Yuan studied under him for many years and have mastered most of the Tibetan liugu gilding craft.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Tibetan ethnic group, born in November 1962 in Hualong Hui Autonomous County, Qinghai Province. National representative bearer of Tibetan Liugujiyi, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He took Danzhengjia as his teacher and has worked in the Tibetan liugu gilding craft for more than thirty years. Through the liugu gilding technique he has restored more than ten thousand Buddha images, ritual objects and animal figures, restoring the old as old. Through the unremitting persistence of the three of them, this ancient craft has been better transmitted and safeguarded.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Tibetan Liugujiyi Ⅷ-221
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