Liu Tianyi’s representative work is "Textile Busy", a guzheng piece based on Guangdong music style. "Textile Busy" is a piece of Cantonese music style. The piece was composed in 1955. The author drew on the strengths of others, integrating the music styles and performance techniques of the three major music types of Cantonese, Chaozhou and Han Dynasty, absorbing the variation form of Chaozhou music, the portamento technique of Chaohan guzheng and the performance characteristics of Guangdong dulcimer, describing It depicts the scene of peasant women working hard in weaving and working happily.

In the 19th year of the Republic of China, he began to work as a music teacher at Zhixing Piano Store in Guangzhou. He participated in radio performances in his spare time. The music program was based on the meaning of heaven being righteous, earth being peaceful, people being spiritual, and things being refined, so he changed his stage name to Liu Tianyi. Liu Tianyi pioneered the combination of Gaohu and piano performance, which was innovative and very popular with the audience. During this period, his Gaohu skills became increasingly mature, and he gradually formed his own style, reaching the level of a professional music master.

Song Appreciation

The music uses a variety of techniques such as rubbing, trembling, sliding, scraping, and string picking, and is played with both hands in the climax of the music. It was a big innovation in the 1990s, and naturally it was enthusiastically sought after by the zheng community after it came out. The structure of the music is variations. The music absorbs the variation form of Chaozhou music, the portamento technique of Chaohan guzheng and the performance characteristics of Guangdong dulcimer, with a simple and beautiful melody.

The smooth and layered rhythm and simple charm vividly depict the happy scenes of peasant women working hard and happily. What’s also valuable about this piece is that the author draws on the strengths of others and integrates the musical styles and performance techniques of the three major music genres: Cantonese, Chaozhou, and Han. The music as a whole has a strong Lingnan guzheng style, but it does not belong to any specific music genre.