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Yin Yigong
Folk-song writer from Midu, Yunnan, who in 1947 shaped the Midu tune Fangyang Diao into The Flowing Stream, printed under the pen name Zhao Hua.
In a palace music hall, a frame of tiered bronze chime bells hangs from dragon-carved beams, with one person standing with their back turned holding two mallets before it; a large red drum and a rack of red knotted cords stand to the left and a stone chime to the right, in evening light.
Also known as Zhao Hua
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Yin Yigong was born on 21 October 1924 in Wensheng Street, Mizhi, Midu County, Yunnan. He studied at Midu Middle School and Nanqing Middle School in Kunming, entered Yunnan University in 1942 and later moved to its foreign languages department, and taught English at Midu Middle School. In 1946 he helped found the music periodical Jiao Xue Chang. In spring 1947 he shaped the Midu folk tune Fangyang Diao into The Flowing Stream, printed with other Midu songs he had collected in the periodical's second issue under the name Zhao Hua; the song is now sung far beyond Yunnan. Late in life he was acting chief editor of the Yunnan Nationalities Publishing House. He died in Kunming on 13 December 2005.
Life and times
Dates 1924–2005