Huang Tu-shan, a bamboo craft master from Zhushan Township, Nantou County, was born in Nantou County in 1926. He received the National Craft Achievement Award in 2008 and is one of the few bamboo craft masters who studied fine bamboo workmanship at the Zhushan District Bamboo Craft Training Center. He prefers to use makino bamboo produced in Zhushan for weaving. Bamboo craft masters such as Chiu Chin-duan, Lin Hsiu-feng, and Tu Su-ying all studied under Huang Tu-shan.

In 1939, at the young age of 14, Huang Tu-shan entered the Zhushan Commandery Bamboo Craft Training Center to study bamboo craftsmanship techniques. As a second-batch trainee of the center, he was inspired by Japanese master artisans Ikeda and Futagami, and became renowned for his gentle and smooth weaving rhythm as well as his exquisite and delicate weaving techniques.

Huang Tu-Shan was also one of the technical instructors in the first-phase Guanhao bamboo fine craft training class promoted by Mr. Yen Shui-Long in Taiwan. In post-war Taiwan's bamboo craft education, his footprint spread across Chiayi, Tainan, Nantou, and other places. Li Jung-Lieh, who also won the National Craft Achievement Award, was likewise a product of the Nantou bamboo craft research class taught by Huang Tu-Shan.

(This article was assisted by the Chu-Life Culture Association of Zhushan Township, Nantou County through fieldwork.)

The documentary about Huang Tu-shan