Xiang Zuhua, a famous dulcimer, composer, music educator, vice chairman of the International Dulcimer Society, professor of the China Conservatory of Music, executive director of the Chinese National Orchestra Society, member of the Art Group Evaluation Committee of the Ministry of Culture, artistic director of the Japanese Chinese Orchestra, Hong Kong dulcimer Association Honorary Advisor.

In the 1940s, folk music masters such as Suiwei Zhongle, Lu Xiutang and Yang Yinliu were active in giving concerts in Jiangsu and Shanghai, and their talents were well received.

In the 1950s, he was transferred to the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra and served as a dulcimer tutor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

In the 1960s, he applied to teach at the China Conservatory of Music and the Central Conservatory of Music.

Professor Xiang Zuhua is the first generation of Yangqin artist in New China and the first Yangqin master tutor. During his half-century of Yangqin art career, he has made outstanding contributions to the inheritance, transmission and development of Yangqin music. He is proficient in Jiangnan Sizhu and Guangdong music dulcimer. He is eclectic, pioneering and innovative, making breakthroughs and enriching the expressive power of dulcimer.

His dulcimer performances, creations and writings were the earliest winners of national music competitions. He has written and adapted nearly 100 Chinese and foreign dulcimer and folk music works, such as the large-scale dulcimer suite "National Soul": "Qu Yuan's Sacrifice to the River", "Su Wu Shepherding", "Zhao Jun and Fan", "Lin Chong Night Run" four ques ; Dulcimer suite "Fang Season": Spring. Orchid, Summer. Lotus, Autumn. Chrysanthemum, Winter. Plum; Dulcimer Concerto "Strait Poems" (three movements), "Bamboo Grove Green", "Silk Road Glimpse", "Tanci 36" and so on. Many have been recorded into albums, CD-ROM albums circulated at home and abroad.