Zhou Zhaoming

01-0066Paper-cuttingTraditional Fine ArtsWei, HebeiBatch 1 (2007)

Lineage & School of Heritage

He was born into a family of paper-cutters, and at the age of eight, while attending school, he began learning the craft from his father. His father began by teaching him to forge the cutting knives, and then instructed him in the complete set of processes of smoking, steaming, cutting, and dyeing, with extremely strict requirements.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, of Han ethnicity, born in 1935, a native of Wei County, Hebei. By the age of thirteen Zhou Zhaoming had mastered the entire craft, and his technique steadily matured; thereafter he continually drew nourishment from beyond his own tradition and pursued innovation, forming an artistic style of distinctly individual character. He has produced more than 2,600 works, on subjects including opera figures, Buddhist figures, flowers, birds, fish, and insects, and opera facial masks; his patterns are novel, his knife work consummate, and his dyeing brilliant.

Honors & Recognition

A national representative bearer of paper-cutting (Wei County paper-cutting), a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Over the years he has trained more than fifty apprentices.

References & Archival Sources

Zhou Zhaoming · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Paper-cutting
Item code: Ⅶ-16
Category: Traditional Fine Arts
Region: Wei, Hebei
Born: 1935.05
Batch: Batch 1 (2007)

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