Wei Jinquan

02-0677Shadow PuppetryTraditional OperaWeinan, ShaanxiBatch 2 (2008)

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1964, a native of Hua County, Shaanxi. Wei Jinquan comes from a family of shadow play performers and was steeped in the art from childhood; while at junior middle school he often performed with his father's troupe, and after graduating from senior middle school he took the renowned master Lin Maoji as his teacher, concentrating on manipulation, then studied lead singing under Pan Jingle and Zhao Zhencai, and in 2004 became a pupil of Hao Bingli. In the end he absorbed the strengths of many schools and became a versatile shadow play artist combining manipulation, lead singing, back-desk accompaniment and carving; he currently has six disciples. Over more than twenty years he has taken the leading roles in such traditional works as Xia He Dong (Pacifying the East of the River), Jin Wan Chuan (The Golden Bracelet) and Quan Jia Fu (Blessings on the Whole Family).

Honors & Recognition

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

References & Archival Sources

Wei Jinquan · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Shadow Puppetry
Item code: Ⅳ-91
Category: Traditional Opera
Region: Weinan, Shaanxi
Born: 1964.08.15
Batch: Batch 2 (2008)

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