Liu Zhengchun

03-0833Guqin and its MusicTraditional MusicNanjing, JiangsuBatch 3 (2009)

Lineage & School of Heritage

From 1951 he studied the qin under Xia Yifeng and Zhao Yunqing, absorbing the full Jinling qin idiom; he studied under the Meian qin master Cheng Wujia, also sought instruction from the Guangling qin master Liu Shaochun, became the last disciple of the Sichuan school master Zhou Kongming, and further studied under the Zhucheng qin master Wang Shengxiang.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

On the Jinling school's characteristic of pause and turn, he combined the strengths of the Guangling, Sichuan and Yushan schools to form a distinctive personal style: disciplined rise and fall, measured pacing, apt response and restraint, and lingering resonance with sparse sound. His disciples number more than one thousand and are found on five continents. In 1999 he revived the activities of the Jinling Qin Society and served as its president. In 2005 the Chinese Guqin Society appointed him an expert member and standing council member of its academic committee. From 2001 he recorded and released the CD Xiangyue Piaopiao: Jinling Yifeng (Fragrant Music Drifting: The Lingering Style of Jinling) and the guqin teaching VCD Gugu diao, huai gu: Liu Zhengchun guqin yishu xinshang (Old Melodies, Remembering Antiquity: An Appreciation of Liu Zhengchun's Guqin Art).

Honors & Recognition

Male, of Han ethnicity, born in March 1935 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, and died in June 2013. National representative bearer of Guqin and its Music (Jinling Qin School), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.

References & Archival Sources

Liu Zhengchun · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Guqin and its Music
Item code: Ⅱ-34
Category: Traditional Music
Region: Nanjing, Jiangsu
Born: 1935.03
Batch: Batch 3 (2009)

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