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Bristle dolls are modeled after Peking Opera roles. Dolls are arranged on a metal plate and “dance” when the plate is struck. When struck, the plate resonates, sounding much like Peking Opera music. When creating the dolls, Bai takes care ...
View Bai Dacheng’s delicate bristle dolls, depicting characters from Peking Opera.
Bristle dolls have truncated clay cores. Bai glues boar bristles onto their wide bottoms. While the figures were originally clothed in paper, they are now clothed in silk. The silk clothing is backed by rice paper that Bai makes himself, ...
Bristle doll maker Bai Dacheng has been designated a master artist of Chinese intangible culture and is renowned for his Peking Opera-based figures. Fifty years ago, when Bai was an airplane-maintenance student at the university, he learned to make the ...
Li Yu Cheng lives in Li She Village in Yan Si Town and has been engraving gourds for twenty years. Li Yu sees himself as a folk artist and aspires to be a National Heritage Fellow, and so he practices ...
Examples of decorated gourds are found nearly everywhere in the world. In China the gourd is associated with longevity and fecundity, and is used as a charm to ward off negative influences. Shou Lou, the God of Longevity, carries a ...
Masks are extraordinarily important within traditional Chinese culture. Although there are various types of masks throughout China, one of their most popular uses involves warding off ghosts and spirits and suppressing evil (Xiaoxiang 89). Opera masks mimic the make-up styles ...
Zhao Yong Qi’s masks represent Peking Opera characters and are made from clay and paper mache.
Although he has students to help him, Zhao designs all parts of his masks himself. The masks are based on different Peking Opera styles. Most of the masks are made out of clay, but the ones that are light enough ...
Twenty years ago, Zhao Yongqi came to Beijing from Hubei Province and created a mask-making workshop that has since expanded to multiple locations and at least twenty employees. Before he started making masks, Zhao was an accomplished artist. Zhao’s teacher ...
Amidst the high rises of Beijing are several workshops of Zhao Yong Qi, a skilled Peking Opera mask maker. Zhoa comes from three generations of mask makers and has spent the last twenty years successfully earning his living by documenting ...
The tradition of dough figures stems from the ancient art of making mud dolls and toys. With dough, however, the work can be much more highly detailed. Originally people used the figures as toys but they now have evolved into ...
Through images in this gallery, you may watch up close as Zhang Bao Lin contructs his dough figures step-by-step.
The artist begins with dough made from rice flour, water, and honey. Many times watercolors are either added to the dough mixture or simply painted on to add color. He starts to form his figures with a limited palette of ...
Zhang Bao Lin lives and works in a modern high-rise in central Beijing, but his talent and passion stem from over 2,000 years of tradition and culture. Zhang creates extremely intricate and delicate dough figures from his home and studio ...
The Peking Opera is popular, and its characters are often portrayed on gourds. Dough flower characters are also often related to the opera. Villagers often participate in the operas, which are held in the markets where there is a lot ...
Li Yu Cheng’s gourd engraving workshop is located in Li She Village in Yan Si Town. The workshop occupies one room of Li Yu’s two-room one story brick house. The house is part of a larger compound that includes a ...
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