Mr. Lin Maogen enlisted in the army in 1949 and served in the literary and art department for a long time after the founding of the People's Republic of China. , Director of Chaoshan History and Culture Research Center, Director of China Shitao Art Society, Member of Standing Committee of Shantou CPPCC, Honorary Chairman of Shantou Music Association, etc. His personal experience was included in the dictionary of Chinese musicians.

In 1958 and 1962, he collaborated with masters such as Zhang Hanzhai and He Tianyou to record famous songs such as "Moon's High", "Deep Boudoir" and "Suiyang Hate" for China Record Club;

From the 1970s to the 1980s, he collaborated with Chao music master Yang Guangquan for many times, and successively recorded "Yan Nanfei", "Liu Qingniang" and "Si Fan" for Pacific Audio and Video Company and Hong Kong Southeast Asia Record Company;

In 1984, he recorded and composed the zheng song "Homesickness Song" for the Overseas Department of China Central Radio.

From 1987 to 1988, he successively recorded and published three series of "Lin Maogen Guzheng Album" for "Shan Li" Audio Company in Singapore and Shantou Ocean Audio and Video Publishing House.

In 1989 and 1991, he was invited by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing to give demonstration performances and lectures for teachers and students majoring in guzheng. Si Fan" CD album for international distribution.

In addition, the large-scale music and art film "Guofeng" (10 episodes) jointly produced by the State Education Commission and the China TV Drama Production Center, Lin Maogen's zheng solo and personal artistic life fragments were included as representatives of Nanzheng.

Lin Maogen is a contemporary descendant of the Chaozhou Zheng School, and is known as the master of Chaozhou Zheng art. In "Chinese Music", "National Folk Music Research" and other publications published monographs such as "Talking about Two Three Four Scores", "Talking about Chaozhou Zheng", "The Style of Chao Music and "Live Five Tones".

In 1992, the performance score of "Forty Chaozhou Folk Zheng Songs" published by the People's Music Publishing House (edited by Li Yin) was published.

In 1991, he was awarded the "Certificate of Honor" at the National Zheng Conference held in Chaoyang, Liaoning Province for his contribution to the promotion of the Southern School of Zheng art.

In the second half of 1998, he was hired as a guest tutor of the Folk Music Research Class of the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing.

From 1983 to 1990, Lin Maogen was invited to perform and give lectures in Hong Kong many times.

In October 1990, at the invitation of the Hong Kong Urban Council, he participated in the performance of the four major zheng schools in the North and the South held at the Hong Kong Cultural Center.

In 1995, he was specially invited by the Singapore Nanyang Academy of Arts Lion City Chinese Orchestra to perform in New Zealand.

In March 2000, he was invited by the Taipei Municipal Chinese Orchestra to perform and give lectures in Taiwan.

In 2002, he went to Nanjing and Shanghai to participate in the Nanjing International Guzheng Art Research Association, and performed at the 4th Shanghai International Art Festival in the special performance of famous old Guzheng artists.

In September 2003, he went to Beijing to participate in the "Nine Masters of Chinese Music in Beijing", and performed on the same stage with famous artists such as Li Xiangting and Song Baocai at the Zhongshan Concert Hall.

In April 2004, he was invited to Hong Kong to participate in the "Evergreen in the Sea of Art - Famous Chinese Music Concert", where he performed together with senior performers such as Lin Shicheng and Lu Chunling, which were well received.

Mr. Lin Maogen has many artistic talents. In his early years, he studied Chinese painting with famous painters Chen Wenxi and Huang Dufeng. He is good at painting chickens, and his works have been exhibited in many newspapers and magazines.

At 13:20 on June 8, 2007, Mr. Lin Maogen passed away in Shantou at the age of 79.