Shi Kuang, a famous musician in Jin State, lived in 572-532 BC, during the reign of Duke Mourning of Jin and Duke Ping of Jin. Shi Kuang was born without eyes, so he called himself a blind minister, became a doctor of Jin, and was famous for his "Shi Kuang's cleverness" in later generations. Shi Kuang is very rich in music knowledge. He is not only familiar with piano music, but also makes good use of piano sound to express the sound of nature and describe the graceful posture and singing of birds flying. Excellent hearing and strong ability to distinguish sounds. Documents before the Han Dynasty often used him to represent people with a particularly keen sense of sound. In the musical score of Ming and Qing Dynasties, Yangchun, Snow White and Xuan Mo were all composed by Shi Kuang.

Li Yannian

Li Yannian? By about 9 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was a highly accomplished musician from Zhongshan (now Dingzhou City, Hebei Province). His parents, brothers and sisters were all musicians, and they all took music and dance as their profession. Li Yannian is not only good at singing and dancing, but also good at music creation. His composition level is very high, his techniques are novel and superb, and his thinking is active. He used Zhang Qian to bring back "Mahadoule" from the Western Regions to compose 28 "advocating new sounds" as the music of ceremonial ceremonies in Yuefu. He was the first musician in Chinese historical documents who clearly marked the author's name and music title and processed and created them with foreign music. It is indeed out of thin air to call him a traitor.

The Seven Sages' Farewell Song Guangling San: Ji Kang

Ji Kang, whose name is Uncle Night. The leader of "Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest". During the Three Kingdoms period, he was a writer, thinker and musician at the end of Wei Dynasty, one of the representatives of metaphysics in Wei and Jin Dynasties, and was good at temperament. His works include Changqing, Short Qing, Long Side and Short Side, which are collectively called "Ji's four lanes" and "Nine lanes" together with Cai's five lanes in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Emperor Yangdi once regarded "Nine Nongs" as one of the conditions for selecting scholars in the imperial examination. The story of "Guangling's Unique Sound" left by him was passed down as a much-told story by later generations, and Guangling San became one of the top ten guqin songs in China. His works, such as Sound without Sorrow and Music, Breaking Up with Shan Ju Yuan, Qin Fu and Health Preservation, are also masterpieces handed down from generation to generation.

Five Dan and Seven Tones First Law: Su Zhipo

Su Zhipo: a famous musician and pipa player from Northern Zhou Dynasty to Sui Dynasty. Su Zhipo once learned the theory of seven modes, such as "Five Dan" and "Seven Tones" used in the Western Regions from his father, and he brought this theory to the Central Plains. At that time, Zheng Yi, a musician, learned the theory of Qiuci Pipa and Qiuci Music from Su Zhipo and founded the theory of 84 Tones. Su's musical tune system laid the theoretical foundation of the famous 28 tunes of Yan music in Tang Dynasty, which was an important turning point in the history of ancient Chinese music development and made outstanding contributions to the development of Chinese national musical law. Therefore, the pipa flourished and became the main national musical instrument in China.

Eight-tone sandhi tang style: Wan Baochang

Wan Baochang: a musician of Sui Dynasty, good at playing many musical instruments. His representative works are Music Score. Wan Baochang first noticed Su Zhipo's theory of seven tones and made a breakthrough in the exploration of pipa. He was instructed to formulate rituals and music, and he used the self-made "water gauge law" as the standard to modulate musical instruments, and he wrote the sixty-four volumes of Music Score, with the theory of music law such as "the method of rotating eight tones into a palace, changing the string and shifting the column to eighty-four tones, one hundred and forty-four tones, and finally changing to one thousand eight tones". This set of court musical instruments made by him had a great influence on the popular music of later generations. Although his theory of music law was not paid attention to in Sui Dynasty, it had an enlightening effect on the laws of Tang Dynasty.

Li Longji

Li Longji, a musician in Tang Dynasty, was also the first emperor musician in ancient China. He is proficient in pipa, flute and other music of silk and bamboo, and especially likes to play Jie drum, which is called "the leader of eight tones". He is good at playing the Jie drum and the flute, and has created and adapted midnight music, little broken music and colorful plumage. Established the Tang Dynasty music organization Jiaofang and Liyuan.

Li Guinian

Li Guinian, a musician in the Tang Dynasty, was an outstanding musician in Liyuan. He plays the wind instrument with great skill, and many poets have heard of his performance and written many well-known poems. At that time, Li Guinian, Li Pengnian and Li Henian all had literary talents. Li Pengnian was good at dancing, while Li Guinian and Li Henian were good at singing. Li Guinian was also good at playing the cymbals, playing the Jie drum and composing music. Their "Wei Chuan Qu" was especially appreciated by Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty.

Jiang Kui: Song Dynasty musician, poet, alias Baishi Taoist, known as Jiang Baishi. Representative works include Yangzhou Slow, Desperate Offender, Songs of the Taoist of Baishi and so on. There are 17 self-directed songs in his ci collection "Songs of Baishi Taoist", and they are annotated with side scores, and the fingering is also indicated in the piano music "Ancient Complaints", which is the only valuable material of the complete collection of Song ci and music scores that has been handed down so far. It is precisely because of his preservation of 17 music scores that he occupies an important position in the history of music.

Zhu Zaiyu initiated the law of twelve averages.

Zhu Zaiyu was a musicologist and calendar mathematician in the Ming Dynasty. Grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang IX of Ming Taizu. Zhu Zaiyu is a master in the history of China's musicology. He is the author of The Complete Book of Music and Law, On the Truth of Law and Lv, and Questioning and Confusing Law and Lv. The Complete Book of Music Law summarizes the previous theories of music law, develops them and initiates the theory of "new secret rate", that is, "twelve average laws".

Attachment: Other Famous Musicians

In addition to the above-mentioned ten musicians who left a great impression on the history of ancient music in China, there are some famous musicians in ancient China who have not been mentioned, and they have more or less promoted the development of China music. Because we know that the relationships involved cannot be enumerated one by one, here, Confucius, Cai Yan and so on are introduced in appendix form. (The picture shows the slave)