Tianjin writer and painter, once a professional basketball player. His stories of old Tianjin characters, 俗世奇人, are read in Chinese schools, and he led a national drive to record vanishing villages and folk arts.
Feng Jicai has devoted many years to protecting China's folk cultural heritage.
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His story 《刷子李》, a fifth-grade textbook lesson, is about a Tianjin plasterer who paints walls in black clothes and never gets a speck of white on them. The title follows the old Tianjin way of naming a craftsman by trade plus surname, 'Brush Li', like 泥人张, 'Clay-figure Zhang'.