Ruan Shi Xuan

Organized by 黑猫不是喵 on 2022-04-13
Introduction to Ruan Shi Xuan(liuqin)Master performer

Ruan Shichun, born in 1949 in a family of architectural designers in Hong Kong, studied wood engineering. He joined the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra in 1974 and has been the Principal of Liuqin since 1987.

Since 1980, he has been employed by Hong Kong Chung Ye University and the Music Department, and has cultivated a group of outstanding musicians for Hong Kong and Taiwan. He is also a director of the Chinese National Orchestra Society and He Shuowen of many domestic and foreign musical instrument factories. In 1993, he was appointed as a member of the Ministry of Culture's "Musical Instrument Reform Expert Group" and a jury member of the Science and Technology Progress Award.

The improved musical instruments have recorded albums and records for many radio and television stations in many countries, and their performances and lectures have traveled all over Asia, Europe, the oceans, and the Americas. In 20 years, Fei has insisted on the reform of musical instruments, restored the production of Ruan Xian and Quxiang pipa made in Tang Dynasty, and reformed the double resonance box Liuqin series and Ruan Cheng series. He has won the third prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and two second prizes of the Ministry of Culture Science and Technology Progress Award.

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Liuqin (pinyin: Liǔ Qín) is a plucked stringed instrument originated in the Qing Dynasty. The earliest Liuqin has a very simple structure and a very folk-like appearance. Now popular all over the country. It is one of the pear-shaped speakers and stringed instruments that have been circulating among the people since the Tang Dynasty. Its shape, structure and playing method are similar to those of the pipa.

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