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Yin Falu
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.
Life and times
Dates 1915 CE–2002 CE