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Guan Pinghu
Qin master and painter who taught and founded qin societies in Beiping, later reconstructed Guangling san, and whose Liushui went into space on the 1977 Voyager Golden Record.
Mural of the cultural record “The Art of the Guqin”, which this person is tied to.
Also known as Ming Ping · Zi Ji'an · Zi Zhongkang
Guan Pinghu, given name Ping, courtesy names Ji'an and Zhongkang, came from a Suzhou family and was born in Beijing. He learned the qin and painting from his father Guan Nianci, studied the qin under Yang Zongji from 1912 in the Jiuyi Qin Society, and trained in fine-line painting under Jin Beilou as a member of the Hu Society of painters. He founded the Fengsheng Qin Society in Beiping in 1938, co-founded the Beiping Qin Society with Zhang Boju, Wang Shixiang and others in 1947, and taught the qin at the National Beiping Art School and elsewhere. From 1953 he reconstructed Guangling san from the Fengxuan xuanpin and Shenqi mipu tablatures. He died in Beijing in 1967. In 1977 his recording of Liushui was placed on the Voyager Golden Record.
Life and times
Dates 1897 CE–1967 CE