Congratulations to Gu Shaopei and Fan Weiqun, who have been selected as national intangible cultural

Mondo Culture Updated on 2024-02-22

In order to inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture, further improve the level of systematic protection of intangible cultural heritage, and strengthen the construction of the team of representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has publicized the list of recommended candidates for the sixth batch of representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage, which has entered the stage of public publicity. A total of 958 people were listed, including 205 people with traditional skills, of which 2 people were selected for Yixing purple sand pottery production skills.

Gu Shaopei

Master of Chinese Arts and Crafts.

Vice President of Zisha Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Arts.

Member of China Arts and Crafts Society.

Member of China Ceramics Association.

He is a member of China Industrial Design Association.

Researcher-level senior arts and crafts artist.

Gu Shaopei, a member of the middle school, was born in 1945 in a family of Yixing pottery. In 1958, he entered Yixing Zisha Middle School to study art, and the enlightenment teacher was Professor Pan Chunfang, who studied under Chen Fuyuan, an old artist, and later received long-term careful guidance from Gu Jingzhou, a contemporary "pot art master". He has been engaged in purple sand for more than 50 years, created more than 100 new products, and won many awards at home and abroad.

In 1985, he was awarded the title of "National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker" and the "May Day" Labor Medal by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. He has been to foreign countries for many times for Zisha cultural and academic exchanges.

In 1985, he was awarded the title of "National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker" and the "May Day" Labor Medal by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. He has been to foreign countries for many times for Zisha cultural and academic exchanges.

He has successively served as the deputy director of the Research Institute of Yixing Zisha Craft Factory in Jiangsu Province, the deputy chief technologist of the factory, and the chief technologist of Yixing Jinda Pottery. He is now a member of the Appraisal Committee of Yixing Zisha Museum in China and the deputy chief craftsman of Yixing Fangyuan Zisha Craft. In November 2006, he was awarded the title of the fifth China Arts and Crafts Master by the state. In 2008, he was awarded the representative inheritor of intangible cultural heritage in Jiangsu Province.

In October 2019, the China Ceramic Industry Association awarded the "Lifetime Achievement Award for Chinese Ceramic Art, Design and Education".

On November 8, 2023, he was awarded the title of "Master of Handicrafts in the Asia-Pacific Region".

Gu Shaopei, a master of Chinese arts and crafts, received a certificate of master craftsmen in the Asia-Pacific region

Appreciation of some works.

Gu Shaopei · Gu's eight-style small incense spring

Gu Shaopei · For Spring

Gu Shaopei · Leopard square pot

Gu ShaopeiGu style eight auspicious clouds wishful

Gu ShaopeiBiquan

Gu ShaopeiThe line is round

Fan Weiqun

Master of Ceramic Art of Jiangsu Province (2011, the first session) Master of Arts and Crafts of Jiangsu Province (2016, the 6th) Senior Arts and Crafts Artist Founder and Art Director of Fanjiahuzhuang Won the first "Jiangsu Craftsman" The first batch of local talents in Jiangsu Province "Three Belts" celebrities.

Born in a family of potters in 70 years, the "Dasheng pot" has been passed down for four generations, inheriting the ancestral art and inheriting the pottery industry. He studied under Wu Tongfen, Ji Yishun and Xu Hantang. He is a student of Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts and China Academy of Art. After more than 30 years of study and study, he has mastered solid traditional handicraft techniques, and has been awarded the young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions in Wuxi City and the inheritor of Wuxi intangible cultural heritage. Editor-in-chief of "Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Yixing Fanjia Pot Art Traditional Skills Archive". Over the years, he has created more than 100 new purple sand products, which are deeply cherished by collectors, and the "Fan Weiqun Pot Friends Association" has been established.

Rooted in the countryside, founded "Fanjiahuzhuang", established the "Xiwang Zisha Ceramics Professional Cooperative", awarded hundreds of apprentices, as a representative of the Wuxi People's Congress, and successively went to the United States, France, the United Kingdom, European Union countries, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and other countries and Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao to hold Zisha works exhibition, promote exchanges, spread Zisha culture, and won the title of "National 100 Rural Prosperity Leaders", "National Light Industry Industry Model Worker", Yixing Top Ten Youth, Yixing City's First May Fourth Youth Medal, etc., and actively contributed and donated funds to establish. Fan Weiqun of Dingshu Senior High School was awarded the Outstanding Student Award** and won the title of "National Love Ambassador for the Next Generation".

* One, two, three, four, seven sets of TVs and other mainstream at home and abroad have been reported many times, and the works produced are fine, beautiful and have profound cultural connotations. It has been collected by the British Museum, the American Ceramics Museum, the Korean Museum, the Ziguang Pavilion of Zhongnanhai, and the National Military Museum. He has successively published many monographs such as "A Brief History of Yixing Zisha", "A Brief History of Zisha", "Fan Weiqun's Zisha Art Collection", and published a number of academic articles. Dedication and love for the industry, to inherit the purple sand skills, spread the purple sand culture, and make due contributions to the prosperity of the purple sand art.

Appreciation of some works.

Fan Weiqun · Hexagram

Fan Weiqun · Quartet hidden horn bamboo tripod

Fan Weiqun · Everywhere is as you wish

Fan Weiqun · Ling Bo

Fan Weiqun · Wen Tao

Fan Weiqun · Between the clouds and water

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