Lin Bangdong

01-0072Paper-cuttingTraditional Fine ArtsYueqing, ZhejiangBatch 1 (2007)

Lineage & School of Heritage

Lin Bangdong learned the art of fine-line paper-engraving from the elders of his family from childhood, and is the fourth-generation bearer of the family's transmission.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, of Han ethnicity, born in 1926, a native of Yueqing, Zhejiang. A national representative bearer of paper-cutting (Yueqing fine-line paper-engraving), a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, and a master of Chinese arts and crafts. Lin Bangdong is bold in exploration and adept at innovation; he expanded the originally monotonous geometric patterns to include flowers, plants, birds, and beasts, as well as landscapes and human figures, making the art more vivid and lively, with well-proportioned density and spacing, imparting a strong sense of rhythm and cadence, and endowing it with a distinctly folk, customary, and regional character. He can engrave more than 2,000 holes on a tiny square inch of paper, work of almost supernatural craftsmanship. His representative works include Fish Leaping over the Dragon Gate (Yuyue Longmen), The Six Domestic Animals Thrive (Liuchu Xingwang), and A Chart of One Hundred Longevities (Baishou Tu).

References & Archival Sources

Lin Bangdong · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Paper-cutting
Item code: Ⅶ-16
Category: Traditional Fine Arts
Region: Yueqing, Zhejiang
Born: 1926.07
Batch: Batch 1 (2007)

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