Zhang Hongyan is a famous pipa player, professor and director of the Department of Folk Music at the Central Conservatory of Music, and director of the Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection and Research at the Central Conservatory of Music. Over the past decades, she has held hundreds of "play and talk" lecture concerts for the purpose of promoting the culture of the concert hall, opened the "Zhang Hongyan Music Culture Lecture Hall" for public benefit every month, and cooperated with the public pipa summer (winter) camp for 11 years, benefiting hundreds of thousands of people.

That's not easy for a regular A-list performer. "It's a matter of prioritization. When I have a lot of things to do, I will prioritize them and do them one by one, with public welfare at the top." In addition to personally teaching, she also took her students to public welfare classes, and her graduate students and doctoral students all became small teachers in the monthly public welfare classes.

Among the students, there are girls who suffer from rare diseases but regard pipa as their life belief, autistic teenagers who gain peace and pleasure from playing, blind children who perceive the world through music, naughty primary school students, and elderly men and women in their 50s and 60s. All of them have one thing in common - love pipa and love music.

The top performer to "music white Ding" class, some people say this is "overqualified", but Zhang Hongyan never pick students, one in ten thousand talent she teaches, even do not know the audience she also teaches. "Don't think that their foundation is not good, not everyone has the financial resources and opportunities to contact the high-level music teachers like you, so you should seize the opportunity to pass on your understanding and emotion of music to everyone without reservation." Zhang Hongyan said to the students.

Zhang Hongyan believes that music is the carrier of history and culture and the medium of spreading value. As the director of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection and Research Center of the Central Conservatory of Music, she organized and planned projects such as the Map of China's Musical Heritage, and launched a series of lectures on Beijing Traditional Music Culture nationwide, dedicated to the dissemination and development of Chinese folk music.

On January 10, in the south house of the Qing Dynasty Prince of Alcohol residence, the doors and Windows were vermillion and the old trees were desolate. The Intangible Heritage Center of the Central Conservatory of Music was located here. Zhang Hongyan dressed in black, holding the pipa, leaning against the window to play the piano, surrounded by music, the golden sunset through the hundred years, sprinkled on the performer's body, "Music is a memory, can bring people back to the past scene." "She said.