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Zheng Minzhong

02-0263Guqin and its MusicTraditional MusicChinese National Academy of ArtsBatch 2 (2008)

Lineage & School of Heritage

Before 1946 he studied at a family school, where he learned calligraphy and painting under Lin Yanbo and Wang Aishi, and the guqin under Wang Xingdong of the Zhucheng school and Li Yuxing of the Jiuyi school. From 1940 he studied the qin under the renowned guqin master Guan Pinghu, and from 1946 he also studied painting under Pu Xuezha.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1923 in Beijing. In the autumn of 1946 he joined the Palace Museum in Beijing, where he has worked ever since, and has served as head of the display section, the calligraphy and inscription section, the painting section, the bronze section, the epigraphy section and the applied arts section. He is currently a research fellow of the Palace Museum, a member of its academic committee, a member of the National Committee for the Authentication of Cultural Relics, and vice-chairman of the Beijing Guqin Research Association. He has published more than thirty research papers on the guqin, collected in Lice Oulu An (Random Notes of Humble Conjecture), and has compiled Gugong Guqin (The Guqin in the Palace Museum), in two volumes, published by the Forbidden City Publishing House.

Honors & Recognition

He is a national representative bearer of Guqin and Its Music, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is an important transmitter of the Guan school.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Zheng Minzhong · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Guqin and its Music
Item code
Ⅱ-34
Category
Traditional Music
Region
Chinese National Academy of Arts
Born
1923
Batch
Batch 2 (2008)

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