Ding Qingbo
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1983 Ding Qingbo was introduced by the veteran artist Ji Lin and apprenticed to Master Cai Laifa of the Yuanxiang troupe. After completing his training he founded the New Yuanxiang Puppet Troupe, organised on a family model, and passed his skills on to Huang Meirong, Ding Jiaming and others.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1963 in Chao'an, Guangdong. Over years of study and performance he mastered such feats as balancing a pot on the head, drawing a paper dragon, spinning porcelain plates and lifting flower vases. He also revived performance skills that had been lost for many years and reformed the related apparatus, so that the art of iron-rod puppetry, then on the verge of extinction, was carried on. His representative works include Tang Seng Takes Three Disciples, Acrobatics, The Eight Immortals Offer Birthday Greetings and Five Blessings in Succession.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Puppetry (Chaozhou iron-rod puppetry), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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