Xi Xiuzhong
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Tu ethnicity, born in April 1956, a native of Huzhu Tu Autonomous County, Qinghai Province. She began at the age of eight to learn Tu pan embroidery, other forms of embroidery, and the cutting and sewing of Tu costume. She later entered the Huzhu County Tu Clothing Factory to study the cutting and making techniques of Tu costume in a systematic way. By her twenties she had already mastered all the techniques of Tu costume. In 1981 she founded her own Tu costume processing factory at home, making and processing Tu costume, and trained a large number of apprentices, bringing up a group of outstanding Tu costume craftspeople.
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Tu Costume, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. She comes from a Tu costume family; both her grandmother and her mother were local inheritors of Tu costume.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Tu Costume Ⅹ-115
Profile
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