Xu Disheng

Organized by 雨童 on 2022-03-07
Introduction to Xu Disheng(guzheng)Master performer,music educator

Also known as Hongyin, famed for milk, word Xu Bu, Disheng, male, born in 1908 and died in 1978, from Shitou Village, Haishan Island, Raoping County, Guangdong.


He received a good education since childhood, and because he was obsessed with Chao music, he resolutely gave up school before graduation and joined Liu Long and Liu Nongyan (blind musician) in Chao'an County to learn pipa and guzheng.

Around 1930, he participated in Shantou Nanxun Silk and Bamboo Club, and went to Shanghai, Hong Kong and Guangzhou to engage in music activities many times. During the war, the current situation was chaotic. He once returned to Shantou to teach in Chengnan Bay and Xinning, and cultivated a generation of famous Chao music teachers from Linmu Gao.

In 1953, together with Yang Guangquan, a famous Chaozhou music master, he prepared and established the Chaozhou Music Improvement Association (the predecessor of the Chaozhou Music Association).

In 1957, Yang Xiuming officially apprenticed to Xu Disheng.

In 1959, he was transferred as a teacher of the Chaole Youth Class of the Shantou Quyi Troupe, and made outstanding contributions to the inheritance, promotion and promotion of Chaozhou Guzheng and Pipa. As the third-generation descendant of the Chaozheng Li School, he is not limited by the traditional playing mode, boldly liberates his right hand, does not wear armor, and the sound is clear and translucent. The zheng piece "Spring Streams", created in the early 1950s, developed new techniques such as ring finger (four-finger continuous play), second-hand grasping (left and right hand strumming and scratching), dangling fingers (no stubbing) and other new techniques. Learned the left-hand playing skills of Chaozheng.
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