Li Jinhai
Lineage & School of Heritage
At the age of seven he began learning the craft under Jia Zicheng, a teacher of the Jia school of Qinyang.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in 1948 in Qinyang, Henan. After the age of twelve he studied suona performance under older-generation artists such as Ma Yinhe of the Ma school and He Quanlong of the He school. Drawing widely on their strengths, he summed up the northern and southern schools of Qinyang playing, which are divided by the Qin River, and fused them into a single whole. In pieces such as Shi Ba Ban (Eighteen Beats) and Jin Ban Qu (Fast-Beat Melody) he is skilled in the method known as da huan qi (the great breath return), sustaining a single breath for three to five minutes, and he further refined the san yan guan (three-hole pipe) technique, producing a sound that is soft, melodious, and round. His representative works include The Charm of Qin, Sentiments of Nine Peaks, and Qinyang Spring.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Suona Art, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
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