Qi Weicheng
Lineage & School of Heritage
Born into a family of craftsmen, he came under his father's influence in childhood and mastered the basic skills of carpentry; at the age of 18 he followed the craftsman Bo Xiuzhang into an ancient architecture team, where through his master's oral instruction and personal example he mastered the family's generations-old technique of making architectural models.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
A man of Han ethnicity, he was born in June 1968 in Dingxiang County, Shanxi Province. He is a national representative bearer of ancient architectural model making techniques, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is a senior engineer. He later studied at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, was promoted to senior engineer of ancient architecture in 2006, and was engaged by the Shanxi Provincial Ancient Architecture Company as chief engineer. In the late 1980s he began working independently, and he took part in making the models of the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda and the Guanque Tower that the Shanxi provincial government presented as gifts to celebrate the return of Hong Kong and Macao. For many years he has devoted himself to training successors, and together with his disciples he has made more than thirty sets of ancient architectural models while writing the monograph Techniques of Making Chinese Ancient Architecture.
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