Liu Chicheng

Liu Chicheng

Liu Chicheng, male, was born in December 1938 in Nantong, Jiangsu Province. He is the third generation successor of Zhucheng school among the major schools of Chinese Guqin, guqin player of Anhui song and dance theater, member of China Musicians Association, consultant of China Kunqu Guqin Research Association, honorary president of mei'an Guqin club, and national first-class performer. In February 2008, the Ministry of culture of the people's Republic of China named Liu Chicheng as the representative inheritor of Guqin art, a national intangible cultural heritage project.

Personal experience

Born in a scholarly family, he was taught by the court when he was five years old. He learned to paint and play zither from his father, Mr. Liu Songqiao, a famous Chinese painter and Guqin player. At the age of 8, he has been on the stage to play music such as "wind and thunder lead", "wild geese falling in the sand". Later, Wang Yanqing, the founder of Zhucheng School of Qin, inherited all the repertoire of the school and got the essence of art. In his youth, he was well-known in the field of Qin. In 1958, he was admitted to the first Guqin major of the Department of folk music of Shanghai Conservatory of music. After entering the school, he devoted himself to the piano art taught by Mr. Xu Wenli, focusing on music theory, so as to enrich the cultivation of Guqin. Guqin is the representative music of Chinese music culture. During the period of school, the school arranged foreign affairs performances for many times, mostly receiving some foreign music scholars and exchange performances, in order to spread China's profound Guqin art. After graduation, he was taught at the Anhui Academy of art and transferred to the Anhui opera and dance theater to engage in full-time Guqin performance and research work.

Achievements

In his more than 70 years of career and artistic practice, Liu has formed a distinctive and unique personal artistic style, which is based on the tradition, loyal to his school, broad-minded and inclusive. The purpose of Guqin is to dance high, to seek development on the basis of inheritance, to create new performance techniques such as Huifeng, roller, glint, tui Fu Yin, Dang Yin, to greatly strengthen and develop the connotation of Guqin performance art of Zhucheng school, to further enrich and perfect the performance flavor of Guqin music with Shandong typical local tune. The performance is characterized by softness and combination of hardness and softness. It is clear and broad-minded, free and unrestrained. It emphasizes the combination of retraction and release, opening and closing with a certain degree, and the combination of form and spirit. It conveys emotion with sound. The style is rich and unusual. Over the years, he has devoted himself to the excavation of Guqin music heritage, sorting out music scores, etc., with outstanding achievements. Guqin repertoire has accumulated rich (including his own selected music scores), such as Qiuhong, Yuhua Dengxian, etc.: more than 40 pieces. He has published many albums, such as the best guqin music, the charm of China, the best Guqin fever, the master of national music: Liu Chicheng, the descendant of Zhucheng school, etc., and has been released at home and abroad. Among them, the album Meian zhenzhuan, published by Guangzhou new era audio and video company in 1991, and the National Treasure Collection: China Guqin grand collection, published by Taiwan cradle record company in 1991 Teacher: Liu Chicheng's album. The theme music program "the charm of the performer" sponsored by the Central People's broadcasting station and the international radio station has been continuously broadcast to the outside world, which has far-reaching influence. MTV of Guqin solo "Zui Yu Chang Wan" was filmed and broadcast by CCTV-9. He has published many professional papers, among which the article "mei'an Qin score and Zhucheng school" was published in the second issue of Chinese music in 1984, which attracted the attention of Chinese and Foreign Qin circles. In more than 60 years of stage art career, there are hundreds of performances including academic lectures. The representative repertoire of each performance includes "scratching the head and asking the sky", "pounding clothes", "zuiyu singing late", "changmenyuan", "Guanglingsan", "reclusive exercises", "yenai", "thinking of friends in the mountains", "youxianyou", "meihuasannong", "flowing water", "Yuqiao Q & a", etc. In all previous individual concerts, as well as invited to attend major international and domestic performances, strong response. Only a few meaningful performances are listed: in July 1975, he went to the capital to participate in the national solo and solo single music performance. At that time, he designated that Guqin could only play "Meihua Sannong", becoming the first Guqin player to perform on the Chinese stage in the late period of the Cultural Revolution. At the end of the performance, the audience could not help but burst into warm applause. After the performance, the judges such as Lu Ji and Li Delun spoke highly of it. In January 1988, he went to Beijing with a folk music selected from Anhui Province to participate in the "dragon Music Week" for three performances, some of which were performed in the Great Hall of the people for the central leader. He performed the Guqin lead in the repertoire "mashing clothes", "zuiyu singing evening" and the Folk Symphony "hujiyin", all of which achieved the best performance results. In 1997, he was invited to perform in Taipei traditional art season and gave lectures continuously, which was highly praised. On May 18, 2006, at the invitation of the people's Government of Zhucheng City, Shandong Province, a grand concert was held in the birthplace of Zhucheng Qin school, which has been lost in Zhucheng's native land. On the 19th, Zhucheng TV station held a three hour "Zhucheng Qin lecture" attended by people from all walks of life, which focused on the origin and development of Zhucheng Qin school, and answered many questions about Guqin art for the audience. More than a thousand audiences applauded throughout. It was a very successful concert and a very successful lecture. In addition, most of the performances over the past 60 years have been preserved in videos and photos, so there is no need to describe them in detail.

Chinese PinYin : Liu Chi Cheng