Ding Chengyun, No. Yimen Lay, was originally from Dengzhou, Henan, and was born in Kaifeng, Henan in March 1944. Guqin master. He learned qin and zheng from his sister Ding Boqin since childhood, and later studied with Gu Meigeng and Zhang Ziqian, masters of guqin, and traveled with Zhongzhou qin masters Chen Zhongsi, Chen Shusan and Huang Songtao, and Zhongzhou zheng master Wang Shengwu. 

For more than 40 years, he has devoted himself to the excavation and research of Chinese music rhythm and Zhongzhou Zheng School, the development of qin, ser and zheng instruments, and the discovery and restoration of the ancient serge strings and playing methods that have been lost for more than a thousand years. Promote the dying Zhongzhou ancient tune, advocate the promotion of traditional Chinese music traditions, etc.

Played and discovered more than ten qin songs such as "Shen Ren Chang", "Bai Xue", "Liu He You", "Flowing Springs on the Stone", "Qing Yun Song", "Xu Si Yin", "Flowing Spots" and so on. He is the representative of the contemporary Zhongzhou Qin School and Zhongzhou Zheng School. He has loved Chinese culture and art since childhood. Since he was 13 years old, he has successively studied poetry, calligraphy and painting from Mr. Jin Zhi, Wu Muyao and Cai Dequan. He also learned Shaolin and Tai Chi Kungfu from seniors such as Lu Wenqu and Fan Jingyi. As the saying goes, the skill of playing the qin is outside the qin and benefits a lot. 

The cultural foundation laid in Kaifeng had a significant impact on his aesthetic orientation and artistic development in the future, and the Chinese Kung Fu he learned had a great relationship with the unique cotton-wrapped iron pronunciation he later played on the piano.