Feng Bingtang
Lineage & School of Heritage
Feng Bingtang is the third-generation inheritor of the family tradition of Foshan woodblock New Year picture production. In 1949 he began learning the craft from his father, studying the techniques of paper preparation and sequential overprinting used in woodblock New Year pictures.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of the Han ethnic group, born in 1936 in Foshan, Guangdong. Later, frustrated by the lack of cooperation from fellow craftsmen, he began to explore and study the other stages of New Year picture production on his own. Today he is able to complete the entire production process of woodblock New Year pictures independently, and he is the representative inheritor in Guangdong who has fully mastered the traditional Foshan woodblock New Year picture craft. The New Year picture products he makes are extremely varied, ranging from simple single-color woodblock prints and brilliantly colored woodblock overprints to large and elaborate deity images printed with woodblock outlines and finished by hand, all rich in the folk culture of the Lingnan region. He has participated many times in exhibition, performance, and exchange activities at home and abroad. His main representative works include Meihua Tongzi (Plum Blossom Boy), Tiandan Menshen (Vermilion Door Gods), Hehe Erxian (The Two Immortals of Harmony), and others.
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Foshan Woodblock New Year Pictures, a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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