caption death_date death_place module birth_place birth_date image article_title name occupation
zha yaji '' of lvhe qin society fuxi -lrb- middle front -rrb- in a '' 1976 beijing , prc yes traditional chinese music label = background = non_vocal_instrumentalist instrument = guqin genre = xiushui , jiangxi , qing 1895 lvhe society yaji.jpg zha fuxi
 zha fuxi guqin co. . player , vice president of central air transport
zha fuxi

zha fuxi -lrb- ; 1895 -- 1976 -rrb- , also known as zha yiping -lrb- 查夷平 -rrb- was a leading player and scholar of the guqin .
born in jiangxi , he started learning guqin in his childhood .
in 1936 , he co-founded the jinyu qin society -lrb- 今虞琴社 -rrb- which later became one of the major national musical organizations for the guqin .
apart from his profession on guqin , he worked for the civil aviation company and was active in the labour movement .
after the people 's republic of china was established in 1949 , he was a vice-chairman of the national musical association , president of the beijing guqin society , and a department head at the central institute of -lrb- folk -rrb- music .
few recordings of his qin performance have been published , though more remain in private and institutional circulation .
his playing style was unaffected but serious and elegant ; he specialized in qin songs -lrb- accompanying himself vocally -rrb- and contributed several noteworthy dapu reconstructions , as well as earning the nickname `` zha xiaoxiang '' for his mastery of the piece xiao xiang shui yun .
