Liu Guisheng

05-2971Dragon Boat FestivalFolk CustomsEzhou, HubeiBatch 5 (2018)

Lineage & School of Heritage

Born into a family of bamboo craftsmen, he learned bamboo weaving from his grandfather and father in 1959, and in 1962 he was apprenticed to the local craftsmen Wu Mingzhang and Wang Haiyan, learning to construct dragon lanterns, lotus-picking boats, clam-spirit figures and related props.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, of Han ethnicity, born in October 1947, a native of Ezhou City, Hubei Province. Since 1990 he has constructed and organized the folk cultural activities of the dry-land dragon boat for more than twenty years, building eighteen dragon boats on his own. He has taken on three apprentices.

Honors & Recognition

He is a national representative bearer of the Dragon Boat Festival (the Zelin dry-land dragon boat), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He has been invited many times to take part in public-benefit promotional activities for intangible cultural heritage at the municipal and district levels, has actively conducted training classes and teaching in which he explains the history and construction techniques of the Zelin dry-land dragon boat folk activity, and was named an outstanding representative bearer of intangible cultural heritage of Ezhou City for three consecutive years.

References & Archival Sources

Liu Guisheng · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Dragon Boat Festival
Item code: Ⅹ-3
Category: Folk Customs
Region: Ezhou, Hubei
Born: —
Batch: Batch 5 (2018)

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