Guo Lantang
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
A man of Han ethnicity, he was born in September 1952 in Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province. He is a national representative bearer of traditional Longkou vermicelli making techniques, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is the sixth-generation transmitter of the Guo lineage of traditional Longkou vermicelli making techniques. At the age of 18 he began learning vermicelli making from his father. While mastering traditional techniques such as pushing the starch (tuifen) and extruding the noodles through a sieve (loufen), he applied knowledge from the field of microbiology to vermicelli making. In 1985 he was appointed by the China Food Industry Association as an expert of the national evaluation committee for starch products, specifically vermicelli, and in many years of research and practice in vermicelli production he has mentored numerous bearers of traditional vermicelli making techniques.
Honors & Recognition
Over the years he has published monographs including Vermicelli Production Techniques and Longkou Vermicelli: Production Processes and Formulations, assisted the Ministry of Agriculture in drafting the Technical Specification for the Processing of Pollution-Free Food Vermicelli, and the research projects he undertook have won awards on several occasions.
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