Peng Zhong

02-0675Shadow PuppetryTraditional OperaShanwei, GuangdongBatch 2 (2008)

Lineage & School of Heritage

From 1944 to 1947 Peng Zhong learned the craft from his grandfather and father; the shadow puppets he makes are translucent and bright, with a well-balanced degree of softness and firmness, carrying on a hereditary leather-processing technique of nearly three hundred years.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1928, a native of Haifeng, Guangdong. When the Lufeng shadow play troupe travelled to Japan to perform in 1987, the shadow figures attained the finest transparency and caused a sensation among Japanese audiences; since the 1980s the shadow leather he produces has been widely used by shadow play troupes in Beijing, Heilongjiang, Hunan and elsewhere, and has been exported to Japan, Europe and the United States.

Honors & Recognition

A representative bearer of Shadow Puppetry (Lufeng Shadow Puppetry), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.

References & Archival Sources

Peng Zhong · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Shadow Puppetry
Item code: Ⅳ-91
Category: Traditional Opera
Region: Shanwei, Guangdong
Born: 1928.05
Batch: Batch 2 (2008)

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