Huang Ou
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnic group, born in April 1968 in Dongguan, Guangdong Province. National representative bearer of Chuantong Incense Making Craftsmanship (Guanxiang making craftsmanship), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is a Guanxiang making technician. Immersed in Guanxiang making from childhood, he studied under his great-aunt Huang Shouzhang and has a thorough command of the Guanxiang production process. Emphasising the integration of theory and practice, and building on his family's traditional incense-making craft, he has devoted himself to studying ancient texts of various kinds and to continual practice of the techniques involved in every stage of Guanxiang production, from planting and harvesting to resin formation, and has distilled such Guanxiang making experience as the method of judging soils, the hunger-planting method, the natural resin-formation method and traditional processing techniques. In 1999 he founded the Shangzhengtang Guanxiang Science Popularisation Plantation, covering two hundred mu, at Dalingshan. He has played an important role in excavating, collating, protecting and transmitting Guanxiang making craftsmanship.
Honors & Recognition
From 1990 he began travelling widely in search of old Guanxiang trees scattered among the people and, with the aim of protecting the species, has conserved more than three hundred century-old wild Guanxiang mother trees within Dongguan.
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