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Zhu Zhonglu
Hua'er singer and scholar from Tongren, Qinghai, called the King of Hua'er of the Northwest, famed for the Hezhou song Up the High Mountain, Looking at the Plain.
On a flat rock above a waterfall, a seven-string zither and a bamboo flute lie on a spread of blue-green cloth; beyond, a waterfall pours into a churning teal pool among misty peaks, with pine branches arching at the top left.
Also known as King of Hua'er of the Northwest
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Zhu Zhonglu was born on 22 February 1922 in Yong'an village, Baoanpu, Tongren County, Qinghai. His father Zhu Rui was a folk hua'er singer who taught him to sing as a child, and at seventeen he entered Kunlun Middle School in Xining, where Wang Luobin taught him music. From 1950 he sang and wrote for song and dance ensembles in the Northwest and Gansu and for the Qinghai mass art centre. His singing of the Hezhou long song Up the High Mountain, Looking at the Plain made it widely known, and in 1956 he wrote the words for the song and dance Hua'er and the Young. Over his life he collected more than six thousand hua'er songs and wrote a book of love hua'er. He died in Xining on 22 December 2007.
Life and times
Dates 1922–2007