Min Jiqian (1923-2020), a pipa educator, from Yixing, Jiangsu, was a professor at the School of Music of Nanjing Normal University, and the editor of "Pipa Course for Children".

When he was young, he studied at the Nanjing National Conservatory of Music. He studied with Yang Yinliu, Chu Shizhu, Cao Anhe, Cheng Wujia, Cao Zheng and other generations of Chinese music predecessors. He is the third generation of Liu Tianhua's erhu school.

His eldest daughter, Min Huifen, is an erhu player; his son, Min Lekang, is a conductor; his youngest daughter, Min Xiaofen, is a pipa player; and his grandson, Liu Ju, is a young conductor. The "Min's Music Family" guided by his enlightenment is well-known in the music world.

Min Jiqian is a teacher who has been engaged in the education of folk music all his life, and is also a fire-sower who promotes folk music. His artistic path officially started in 1947. He was admitted to the National Conservatory of Music in Nanjing with two works of Liu Tianhua, "Good Night" and "Singing in the Sick", and later merged into the Central Conservatory of Music. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, he advocated the cultivation of national music with one specialization and multiple abilities. He chose a variety of national musical instruments, and successively studied under Yang Yinliu (Sanxian), Chu Shizhu (erhu), Cheng Wujia (percussion), Cao Anhe ( Pipa), Cao Zheng (guzheng), Liu Jidian (big sanxian) and many other masters. The mastery of a variety of musical instrument performances has laid a solid professional foundation for future teaching.

Min Jiqian, famous folk music educator, folk instrumentalist, librarian of Jiangsu Provincial Museum of Culture and History, consultant of Sanxian Professional Committee of China National Orchestra Society, honorary president of Pipa Society of Jiangsu Musicians Association, and former president of Nanjing Music Society Mr. He died at 23:00 on January 16, 2008, at the age of ninety-seven.