Character name: Zeng Zhixin

Pinyin: ZENG ZHIWEN

Font size: Hao Zemin

Dynasty: Qing Dynasty

Years of birth and death: 1879-1929

Place of Birth: Jiangsu, Shanghai (now Shanghai)

Personal profile: A musician in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, his father Zeng Zhu served as the president of Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce. In the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu (1901), Zeng and his wife Cao Rujin went to Japan to study. The following year, he participated in the "Music Seminar" organized by Shen Xingong. In the 29th year, he published "Music Theory" and "Singing and Teaching Methods" in the "Jiangsu" magazine published in Tokyo. Among them, 6 songs including "Training Soldiers" and "Spring Outing" were printed with five-line notation and simplified musical notation. This is the earliest publicly developed school song that can be seen so far, and it is also the earliest record of the official use of simplified musical notation by Chinese people. Thirty years later, on the basis of the "Music Seminar" founded by Shen Xingong, the first new music society in the history of modern Chinese music - "Yaya Concert" was established. After returning to China in 1907, , sponsors the charity "Poor Children's Home", and the "Poor Children's Home Orchestra" organized by it is the first Western orchestra in my country and the first Western orchestra with all Chinese players.