Jinyu Qin Society ( Chinese: 今虞琴社) is a Guqin society found in Suzhou in 1936. Its founders included Zha Fuxi, Zhang Ziqian, Xu Yuanbai and other famous contemporary Guqin players. It also had a journal Jinyu which only published once. [1] [2] [3]
History
Zha Fuxi and other twenty-eight established this society on March 1, 1936, [4] and held a yaji the same day. [5]
On December 27, they founded a branch in Shanghai. Because there were more players in Shanghai, this branch started to become more important than its former headquarters. [6] They published the journal Jinyu in October 1937, and sent all the copies to other players in the country without any charge. Due to the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the journal was never published again. [5] In the meantime, the society did a survey which suggested there were only 112 Guqin players in the whole country at the time, as most of these players were born to noble families. [6]
Because the Japanese Army occupied Shanghai, the founders fled to different places in order to escape the violence, after which they were hardly ever able to reorganise it again. [4] It was totally closed down after the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, but was reestablished in 1980 when Zhang Ziqian became the first president. [7]
References
- ^ "民国时期的今虞琴社和《今虞》琴刊". 中國網. 2003-04-18. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
- ^ 今日,我们走失“虞山”——今虞琴社七十周年社庆音乐会记，梁晴，《音樂愛好者》，2007年03期
- ^ Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture, 2005, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, Index 1061
- ^ a b 榮天圻（1968），《藝人與藝事》，台灣商務印書館， ISBN 9570512830
- ^ a b "今虞琴社与广陵琴人". 揚州史志. 2013-09-13. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
- ^ a b "从今虞琴社的创立和早期活动透视中国近代古琴文化的转型". 中國音樂史學網. 2010-07-27. Archived from the original on 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
- ^ "张子谦". 中國音樂學院. Archived from the original on 2015-03-23. Retrieved 2014-12-31.