Zha Fuxi

Zha Fuxi (Traditional Chinese: 查阜西, 1895-1976) was an acclaimed master of the guqin, a classical Chinese musical zither instrument. Born in Jiangxi, he started learning guqin since his childhood. In 1936, he co-founded Jinyu Society Qin Society (今虞琴社) which later became one of the major national musical organization for guqin. Besides his profession on guqin, he worked for the civil aviaton company and was an activist for labour movement. Since 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, department head of Central Institute of (Folk) Music. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.