Tang Jianyuan

Tang Jianyuan

Tang Jianyuan was born in Nanhai, Guangdong Province. Hong Kong is a famous guqin player, guzheng performer, Nanyin and Oracle research expert, as well as an expert in tea art and garden. He has taught in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Wisconsin University, Michigan University and Hong Kong Academy for performing arts.

Tang Jianyuan has obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from National Taiwan Normal University, a master of Linguistics (oracle bone) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a doctor of ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Tang Jianyuan learned from Wu Zonghan, Wang Yici and his wife (mei'an school), sun Yuqin, Wu JINGLUE and other famous musicians. He had a very personal performance style, which required elegance, lightness, implicitness, harmony, quietness and integrity. In the 1980s, he came to the mainland to study Guqin under the guidance of Mr. Wu JINGLUE, a great Guqin master of Yushan Wu school. He is an overseas descendant of Yushan school.

Tang Jianyuan has played zither, Cantonese Opera and Nanyin since the 1960s. In the 1970s, he had to learn the technique of playing zither with his own accompaniment from master Du Huan, the successor of "Sheng Xian San mang de", and spread the skill of "oral singing, clapping with his left hand and playing zither with his right hand" into one. Tang Jianyuan played the strings with his fingernails. Every sound was as easy as a round bead, as sonorous as a jade pendant, and the tone of the supporting tone was so tight that the speed of the singer, the long order of the short tune, and the main line could change with the sound. His bosom friend Xu was the "Nanyin zither saint".

He has written many academic works such as Qin Fu, and has been recorded by EMI, a famous international record company, and Hugo company in Hong Kong.

In addition to guqin, Tang Jianyuan's research interests include folk music, opera, oracle bone inscriptions, archaeology, purple clay pot and tea art. In recent years, he has set up his own Tang's QinQu art garden, teaching yuequ, Nanyin and Guqin.