Zhao Liangshan

Zhao Liangshan was born in Heishan, Liaoning, in 1939. After graduating in bamboo flute from the folk music department of the Central Conservatory of Music in 1963, he joined the Hubei Song and Dance Troupe. From 1980, at the urging of Professor Chen Zhong, he made hundreds of trial xun, arriving at a ten-hole wooden xun with a movable base and working out its fingering; in 1983 he played The Lament for Ying on it in the troupe's Chime Bell Dance. He moved to the music department of Xiamen University in 1986, where he worked to bring the xun into nanyin music, and in 1988 released the album New Soul of the Clay Xun. He also played the dizi, xiao, bawu and hulusi. He died in Xiamen in 2011.