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Hua Yanjun
Wuxi folk and Daoist musician known as A Bing, famed for the erhu piece Erquan yingyue; in 1950 Yang Yinliu and Cao Anhe recorded six of his erhu and pipa pieces.
Mural of the event “Gathering the Folk Music”, which this person took part in.
In 1950 the Institute of Folk Music of the Central Conservatory was issued an imported portable wire recorder. On the evening of 2 September that year the Wuxi folk musician Abing recorded the erhu pieces Moon Reflected on the Second Spring, Listening to the Pines and Cold Spring Wind at the Sansheng Pavilion beside Gonghuayuan park, and three pipa pieces the next day; he died on 4 December. From 1 to 14 April 1953 the Ministry of Culture held the first National Folk Music and Dance Festival in Beijing, where more than three hundred folk artists gave over a hundred items, among them ensembles, a transverse-flute solo and folk wind music. That spring the Central Broadcasting Folk Orchestra was formed, built on four sections: bowed strings, plucked strings, winds and percussion.
Also known as A Bing
Hua Yanjun, known as A Bing, was born in 1893 in the Leizun Hall of the Dongxu Temple in Wuxi, Jiangsu. He learned Daoist ritual music from the hall's head priest Hua Qinghe and became skilled on erhu, pipa and flute. After Hua Qinghe's death he took over the priestly post; around 1928 he lost his sight and from then on made his living playing on the streets of Wuxi. In September 1950 Yang Yinliu and Cao Anhe recorded six of his pieces in Wuxi: the erhu works Erquan yingyue, Tingsong and Hanchunfeng qu, and the pipa works Dalang taosha, Longchuan and Zhaojun chusai. He died in Wuxi that December.
Life and times
- 1893 CEBorn
Qing
Republican Era
Modern Era - 1950Gathering the Folk Music
Took partage 57In September 1950 Yang Yinliu recorded six pieces by Abing in Wuxi; in April 1953 the Ministry of Culture held the first National Folk Music and Dance Festival in Beijing, and that spring the Central Broadcasting Folk Orchestra was formed.- Abing's Music Recorded in WuxiIn September 1950 Yang Yinliu and Cao Anhe used a wire recorder in Wuxi to record six pieces by Abing, among them The Moon Reflected in Erquan.
- Abing's Music Recorded in Wuxi
- 1950 CEDied
Works
Stage · Pieces3- The Moon Reflected on the Second SpringLate 1930s (approx.)Hua Yanjun's best-known erhu piece, which only received its title when it was recorded in 1950.
- Listening to the PinesEarly 1930s (approx.)An erhu solo by Hua Yanjun, recorded in 1950 at the same session as Erquan yingyue.
- Great Waves Sifting the SandDate unknown; recorded 1950A pipa solo by Hua Yanjun, recorded by Yang Yinliu and Cao Anhe in 1950.
