Wang Jing
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, of the Bouyei ethnic group, born in March 1971, a native of Xingyi City, Guizhou Province. She was a deputy to the Twelfth National People's Congress and a recipient of the national March 8th Red Banner Pacesetter honour. Having received authentic instruction from her mother at an early age, she worked in 1993 as a clothing pattern maker and designer. In 1997 she began designing and making Bouyei costumes. In 2001 she developed Bouyei tourist costume products for the Maling River scenic area. In 2005 she founded the Buguniao Ethnic Industrial Development Company. She was engaged as a Bouyei costume instructor for the Ethnic Future student summer camp programme at Tsinghua University and Peking University. Attaching importance to transmission and innovation, she has trained more than one hundred technical specialists, including young ethnic costume designers, pattern makers, cutters, handmade frog-button makers and front-line machinists. She has held training courses through which more than one thousand Bouyei women have learned earth-cloth weaving, hand embroidery, batik and costume processing techniques.
Honors & Recognition
She is a representative bearer of Bouyei Costume, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. The Bouyei costumes, scarves, embroidered waist pouches and other items she designed and made won the 2006 Ethnic Characteristics Award and the Best Creativity Award.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Bouyei Costume Ⅹ-157
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