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About Lu Chunling
- Lu Chunling (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Lù ChunlÃng; Wade–Giles: Lu Ch'un-ling; 14 September 1921 – 22 May 2018) was a Chinese dizi player and music educator.Lu learnt how to play pipa and dizi from a neighbour, who was an amateur musician,in his childhood.
- He left school at about 15, and worked a taxi driver then a trishaw driver.
- Meantime, he was still learning from the local noted sizhu players.
- He continued his car driver job after 1949, for the PLA.
- He was well known for his artistry as a dizi soloist in the Shanghai Folk Ensemble (then Shanghai Traditional Orchestra) since 1952.
- He began to teach at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1957, and became Associate Professor in 1978.Lu was considered as a leading exponent of southern Chinese dizi (qudi) music, after 1949.
- Along with Ma Shenglong, Zhou Hao and Zhou Hui, they formed a Jiangnan sizhu music quartet, which was influential among contemporary Chinese music.
- His compositions include Jinxi (??, Today and Yesterday) and Jiangnanchun (???, South Yangtze In The Spring Time).
- The animated short film The Cowboy's Flute which published in 1963, is soundtracked by him.
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