Jinyu Qin Society

Its founders included Zha Fuxi, Zhang Ziqian, Xu Yuanbai and other famous contemporary Guqin players.

[1][2][3] Zha Fuxi and other twenty-eight established this society on March 1, 1936,[4] and held a yaji the same day.

[6] They published the journal Jinyu in October 1937, and sent all the copies to other players in the country without any charge.

[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.