When Lou Shuhua 18 years old (1925), her father arranged to marry Li Zhen, the daughter of Li, in Dadingzhuang. Soon after, he bid farewell to his new wife because of his stepmother's abuse, ran away from home, and was introduced to Beijing, where he worked hard to make a living and realized his desire to improve his cultural quality.
Lou Shuhua met Mr. Wei Ziyou, a member of Henan Suiping Moral Society, when she did her duty in the Moral Society. Lao Wei is a family of folk music in Henan Province, especially the ancient tune "Zheng in Music" in Zhongzhou, Henan Province. Mr. Shu Hua often goes to Weijiaxin to watch and participate in Weijiale activities. Over time, because of his kindred spirits, he devoted himself to the art of Zheng and studied under Mr. Wei Ziyuan. Lou Shuhua, sincere and respectful, follows the traditional teaching methods of Mr. Wei and learns guzheng step by step; First, read the music carefully, and then do the exercises. Every guzheng song and every fingering is learned step by step and in a down-to-earth manner. Therefore, Lou Shuhua has mastered the basic skills of guzheng art and the artistic accomplishment of traditional music. Lou Shuhua's accomplishments in the art of guzheng are always based on inheriting the tradition and bringing forth the new, which is also the driving force for him to inherit Webster's ambition and describe Webster's guzheng art.
1935, Lou Shuhua participated in the performance of "China Music Tour Group" in Europe, went to Switzerland, Austria and other countries successively, and finally returned home by bypassing Moscow, the Soviet Union. According to the report of Desert Pictorial that year, the successful performance of China Music Tour Group in the world-famous "City of Music" won international praise and respect from China's national music art "Zheng in Music" and won glory and glory for the music culture of the motherland.
1936 On May 20th, Lou Shuhua and others went to Europe to perform. Shortly after returning to China, they were invited by Shanghai EMI Company to make a "North School" guzheng record with "One World" on the front and "Guan Ju" on the other side. It is the only precious audio material left by Lou Shuhua and one of the important material evidences in the modern history of China Guzheng.
After the death of Mr. Wei, Mr. Shu Hua took the art of Zheng as his own responsibility, and it was his duty to promote it in Zhongzhou. In the mid-1930 s, she often participated in the activities of Beijing music industry, such as regularly playing guzheng solos on the radio; Attend concerts and perform guzheng programs. It had a great influence on promoting the national music "Zheng Music" at that time and played a positive role in promoting it.
From 65438 to 0936, Lou Shuhua undertook the important task of teaching guzheng art in Beijing, an ancient capital with a long cultural history, which made the development of guzheng art succeed. In order to enrich the teaching content and facilitate the teaching, Lou Shuhua transplanted guqin music, Jiangnan Sizhu music and other tracks on the basis of the biography of Zhongzhou Gudiao by Wei Ziyou in Henan Province, enriched the contents of guzheng music, and borrowed the fingering letters and names at the bottom of guqin, converted the notation of Gongchi into a special Guzheng Finger Score, and compiled Guzheng Etudes 265438+. Although he was limited by economic conditions, he did not publish one.
In order to popularize the art of guzheng in Nanjing, Lou Shuhua wrote and edited "Guzheng Lecture Notes" in the name of "China Guzheng Society" in the autumn and winter of 1948, and began to write guzheng music by notation, which opened up a new position for the northern art of China in Jinling area and became a foundation for the development of Nanjing Guzheng today.
1In June, 949, Mr. Shu Hua accepted the student's suggestion and returned to Beijing to study at North China University, and at the same time joined the Agricultural Workers' Democratic Party. While waiting for the assignment, Mr. Shu Hua suffered from tuberculosis due to years of overwork, so he had to go back to his hometown to recuperate and indulge in it. Finally1May, 95216th died in Simi Wang Hui village at the age of 46.