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Scholar of early Chinese culture and music texts and Peking University professor who, with Yang Yinliu, published the 1957 study that decoded the songs of Jiang Kui.
Mural of the cultural record “Tang–Song Sung Lyrics”, which this person is tied to.
Also known as Zi Shaozeng
Yin Falu, styled Shaozeng, was born in Feicheng, Shandong, in 1915. He entered the Chinese department of Peking University in 1935, took a master's degree at its Institute of Humanities in 1942 and stayed on to teach, spending most of his career there as a professor of Chinese. In 1957 he and the musicologist Yang Yinliu published their study of the songs of the Southern Song poet Jiang Kui, transcribing Jiang's notated melodies into modern notation, a foundation for the study of Song song-lyric music. He also edited an annotated Guwen guanzhi and a general history of early Chinese culture. He died in 2002.
Republican Era
Modern EraYin Falu, courtesy name Shaozeng, was a native of Feicheng in Shandong. He entered the Chinese department of Peking University in 1935 and took a master's degree at the university's Institute of Humanities in 1942, then stayed on as a research assistant. In 1960 he returned to the Chinese department as professor, working on classical texts in research and teaching.
Yin Falu returned to Beiping with Peking University in 1946, then worked in the university's history department and in the history institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he was an associate research fellow. He was chief editor of History of Ancient Chinese Culture, and with Yang Yinliu he worked out the music of the songs of the Southern Song poet Jiang Kui that survive, completing Studies of Jiang Baishi's Songs.