Liu Sen's bamboo flute playing style

In the late 50's, in the Chinese flute world, the peak of the young flute player Liu Sen with his unique passionate and new life atmosphere of the performance, opened up a brand new art road, in the Chinese flute world, unique, founded with a strong vitality and attraction of the performance of the school - Liu Sen school. His performances of "Pastoral Flute", "Little Scene in a Mountain Village", "Little Cowherd", "Mountain Song", "Skylark", and "Hora Dance" have become the finest pieces of solo flute music. His superb skills of playing Chinese and foreign music with changing tones by pressing the half-hole method and playing superb soprano with original fingerings have promoted the development of the art of Chinese bamboo flute playing, and his contribution to the art of Chinese bamboo flute playing is well known.　　Before analyzing the artistic characteristics of Liu Sen's performance, let's first briefly analyze the traditional north and south bamboo flute playing styles and characteristics. Popular in the north, such as Inner Mongolia, Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi and other regions of the flute, used to play bang bang opera music, two-man stage music and mountain songs, etc., high-pitched, loud and clear, funny, enthusiastic. It is good at simulating opera singing and natural sound, and has the typical characteristics of the northern bang flute. Blowing powerful, with gas more fierce, tongue skills, often using flower tongue, spitting, throat sound, etc., fingering more difficult to use the sliding sound, the sound, chopping sound, flying fingers, etc., the formation of the northern bamboo flute playing style of the bold and spirited, especially rich in the interest of life.　　The flute popular in the Jiangnan water town is used to play southern opera music, Jiangnan silk and bamboo, Jiangnan ditty, etc. It is mellow and mellow, elegant and beautiful, and has the typical characteristics of qu flute. With calm and steady breath, little tongue movement, and accustomed to using trills, superimposed notes, complimentary notes, and playing notes on the fingering, it forms a southern bamboo flute playing style that is very different from the northern style, which is known for its gracefulness and magnificence, and its freshness and finesse.　　Liu Sen's style of playing is a new style of bamboo flute playing that is different from the traditional north-south style.