Tai Liping
Lineage & School of Heritage
Tai Liping was born into the Tai family of woodblock New Year painters in Nanxiaoli Village, Fengxiang County. Influenced and trained by his grandfather and father from childhood, he inherited the family's folk New Year painting techniques, which have been handed down for more than five hundred years.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of the Han ethnic group, born in 1952 in Baoji, Shaanxi. He is a national representative bearer of Fengxiang Woodblock New Year Pictures, a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, a master of Chinese arts and crafts, and a researcher in folk art creation at the Chinese National Academy of Arts. In 1968 he began specializing in the design, carving, and painting of folk New Year pictures. In 1978, under the leadership of his father Tai Yi, he founded the Fengxiang Nanxiaoli Arts and Crafts Research Association, successively excavating, organizing, and reproducing more than three hundred ancient woodblock New Year picture designs (sets), and creating more than twenty new New Year picture designs. In 1980, together with his father, he founded the Fengxiang Fengyi New Year Painting Society, continuing the restoration and creation of New Year pictures. In the 1990s he edited and published Selected Fengxiang Woodblock New Year Pictures, volumes one and two, which were highly acclaimed.
Honors & Recognition
He has trained dozens of block-carving and printing personnel for Fengxiang New Year pictures. In addition to his three children, who are now engaged in New Year picture production, he has trained a number of woodblock New Year picture enthusiasts as reserve talent.
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