Mao Yi, a native of Lushan Mountain. Famous guqin player, Shan Zhuqin. His ancestral home is Jinan, Shandong, and he is the first in a scholarly family. Born in Shanghai in 1968, he moved to Nanjing. Graduated from the piano tuning major of the Central Japan Musical Instrument College and the composition and theory major of the Nanjing University of the Arts. He is a registered senior tuning lawyer of the Ministry of Light Industry, a director of the Chinese Guqin Society, the twelfth-generation descendant of the Guangling School, and the sixth-generation descendant of the Zhucheng School. At the same time proficient in Guqin repair and production.

He studied violin and piano performance since childhood. At the age of ten, he studied Guqin with his grandmother, Mr. Gao Songru, the fifth-generation pianist of the Zhucheng School. At the age of eighteen, he studied Guqin performance and piano learning with the eleventh-generation master of the Guangling School, Mr. Mei Yueqiang. Research, which lasted twenty years, has been playing the piano continuously. During this period, he also received guidance from his predecessors, such as the famous guqin masters Gong Yi and Chen Yuecong.

In 1988, he began to study the production of guqin, and received the guidance and affirmation of Mr. Mei Yueqiang. After more than ten years of continuous efforts and improvements, the guqin-making skills became more and more mature, and finally formed his own style of guqin making: excellent selection of materials and exquisite production. , following the tradition, and chasing the Tang and Song Dynasties; the guqin made, upholds the sound of warmth and restraint, tranquility and harmony, and does not seek to be empty and grand, gorgeous and floating.

The playing style of Guqin combines the strengths of Zhucheng and Guangling schools.