The life of the characters in Gu's novels

In the 25th year of Guangxu reign (1899), he was born in a guqin family in Changsha, Hunan. His great-grandfather Gu Gengshan was a famous painter and calligrapher in Chengdu, Sichuan. His grandfather, Gu Yucheng, was the alternate prefect of Zhili in Hunan in Qing Dynasty, and was a disciple of Zhang Kongshan, the master of modern guqin and the originator of Sichuan School.

(One of the most important disciples of Zhang Kongshan mentioned in most published History of Ancient Music in China and History of Qin Dynasty), he is also a famous painter and calligrapher. His father Gu Zheqing (a juren in Qing Dynasty) and his uncle Gu Zhuoqun are both influential guqin figures in the modern piano field. Influenced by his grandfather Gu Yucheng when he was young, Gu loved China traditional culture and its guqin art. When he went to a private school at the age of six, he studied hard the classics, the four books and the five classics, and learned all the articles by heart. In painting, he studied under Su, a famous Hunan painter in the late Qing Dynasty, and was good at painting plum, orchid and bamboo. His paintings are praised by China painters as: "There is a gentleman's demeanor of tolerance, kindness and generosity between the lines." He imitated Li Beihai, a famous calligrapher in Tang Dynasty. It was in this growing environment that he became fascinated with the art of guqin. At the age of 12, he began to learn from his father Gu Zheqing and his uncle Gu Zhuoqun. The first song is "Drunken Fisherman Singing Late", which is a much-told story in the piano field for some time. During this period, his piano skills were truly inherited by the Sichuan School, and he joined his own Nanxun Piano Club. 65438-0959 Shenyang Conservatory of Music established Guqin major. At that time, the famous musician Li sent Mr. Zhu, director of the folk music department, to Beijing to hire the ancient folk music department to teach guqin specialty. Since then, Gu has become the first professional in Guqin in the music colleges in Northeast China, sowing seeds and bearing fruit in this land which is compared by ancient scholars as a "cultural desert". During this period, he taught many famous people in the piano field today. Such as Gu Zechang, Ding Jiyuan and Ding Chengyun. The following year, at the invitation of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Professor Guqin was seconded to the Folk Music Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Today, outstanding piano players Gong Yi and Lin Youren have studied under the ancient times. A year later, he returned to teach at Shenyang Conservatory of Music, and it was also during this period that he began to write his masterpiece Notes on Qin Xue (1964). After school, he always works hard, day and night, or in winter and summer vacations. In addition to Sichuan-style piano music, it also excavated and arranged 14 songs such as Yangchun, Snow White, Crying at Night, Luo Chaofei, Shishou Liu Quan, Dragon Vanilla, and Nagato Complaint, and completed the first draft before the Cultural Revolution. Qin Xue Notes, a magnum opus with hundreds of thousands of words, was published by Shanghai Music Publishing House in 2004. Its contents include general rules, fingering, gestures, music scores, temperament, argumentation and system, instruments, playing methods, playing methods, playing sounds and evaluating sounds. It makes a comprehensive, detailed and comprehensive analysis of many aspects of Qin Xue. It is one of the few works in the development history of China Guqin. It is another great contribution to the development of Guqin.