Wan Xiang, a qin master from Jingzhou: Born in a family of carpenters, he shines in qin skills

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On June 15, under the guidance of the Employment Promotion Department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and sponsored by the China Labor and Social Security Newspaper, the "National Labor Service Brand Image Spokesperson Exhibition" was launched. This event aims to strengthen the construction of labor service brands, comprehensively promote rural revitalization, and promote more adequate and higher-quality employment. 324 labor service brand image spokespersons were broadcast on China Labor and Social Security News Network and the official Weibo of the newspaper for 15 days.

The spokespersons of the labor service brand cover a wide range of industries, including 13 industries such as culture, sports and entertainment, residential services, accommodation and catering, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, construction, and manufacturing. Some of these spokespersons have won national and even world-level skills competitions. Some of them have unique skills and are the inheritors of national skills, and some lead the masses to increase employment and income, and promote enterprises to become bigger and stronger. All labor service brands have strongly promoted employment, and most of them are local influential enterprises and large taxpayers.

According to reports, according to the broadcast views of the spokespersons and the results of the expert review, this event will select 20 "most distinctive labor service brand image spokespersons" and 50 "characteristic labor service brand image spokespersons" and a group of outstanding labor service brand spokespersons, and Carry out extensive publicity and promotion.

Today we will meet a Jingzhou qin master.

Wan Xiang, born in May 1969, Han nationality, graduated from Central China Normal University in English Language and Literature, with a bachelor's degree. He is currently the inheritor of the Chudi Chuqin Project in Hubei Province and the legal representative of Hubei Wanguqin Culture Development Co., Ltd.

Wan Xiang, a qin master from Jingzhou: Born in a family of carpenters, he shines in qin skills

Wan Xiang was born into a family of carpenters in Jiangling County, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province. His father, Wan Fanghua, and his uncle, Wan Fangde, are both local traditional carpenters with exquisite craftsmanship. When his father, Wan Fanghua, was working in Shashi in the 1970s, he met Mr. Xiang Shengjie, a guqin player in Jingzhou. The skills were passed on to his younger brother Wan Fangde. Wan Fangde loved music and was obsessed with the making and playing of the guqin. Wan Xiang started from junior high school and used the winter and summer vacations to follow his uncle Wan Fangde to try to make and play the guqin.

Wan Xiang worked for China International Trust and Investment Corporation Shenzhen Company after graduating from university in July 1991. In September 1993, during a business trip from Shenzhen to Beijing, I met Mr. Tian Shuangkun, a famous qin master of the Northern School of China. In October 1997, I traveled to Hong Kong and got acquainted with Mr. Tang Jianyuan, a famous guqin player in Hong Kong through a friend’s introduction. When visiting Mr. Tang’s studio, he found that Mr. Tang was also a master of the Southern School of qin. The technique of sending the piano.

In 2000, Wan Xiang resigned from her job at CITIC in Shenzhen and returned to Wuhan to focus on playing the piano. In 2015, at the invitation of Jingzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Institute, Wan Xiang led the qin team to settle in the Intangible Cultural Heritage Institute. For more than six years, the Wanguqin Shuqin team has devoted all their efforts to researching the Chu-diqin, constantly integrating the superb skills of the northern and southern schools of the Chinese Shuqin, and at the same time searching for the traditional historical materials of the Chu-qin, creating a new quality of the Chu-qin. A high-end brand Wanguqin with an ancient and mellow tone, a hand feeling like a spring on a rock, and a luxurious and elegant paintwork.

The green hills do not have ink for a thousand years, and the green water has no strings. In January 2019, Wanxiang established a professional organization for qin - Hubei Wanguqin Culture Development Co., Ltd., which interprets the eternal friend Wanguqin with green water and green mountains.

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Guqin (pinyin: Gǔ Qín) is a traditional Chinese musical instrument with a history of at least 3,500 years. Guqin is also known as Yaoqin, Yuqin and Seven-stringed Qin. The guqin has 13 emblems that mark the rhythm, and is also a ritual and musical instrument. It belongs to the silk in the octave. Guqin has a wide range, deep timbre and long aftertone.

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