Abing

Also known as Hua Yanjun

Abing (; 20 August 1893 or 3 November 1898 – 4 December 1950), born Hua Yanjun () was a blind Chinese musician specializing in the erhu and pipa.

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二泉映月
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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Beijing
Active from: 1893
Active to: 1950

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Person.name: Abing
Person.image: 阿炳证件照.jpg
Person.caption: This is the only extant photograph of Abing, taken from his identity card during the Japanese occupation of Wuxi. The original is now at the Abing Ancestral House Museum in Wuxi.
Person.birth_name: Hua Yanjun
Person.birth_date: or
Person.birth_place: Wuxi, Jiangsu province, China
Person.death_date: (aged 52–57)
Person.occupation: Musician

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Instance of: human
Family name: Hua
Gender: male
Citizenship: China
Place of birth: Wuxi
Place of death: Wuxi
Occupation: composer
Languages spoken: Standard Chinese
Instrument: pipa
Image: Abing.jpg

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Commons category: Abing
date of birth: 1893-08-17
date of death: 1950-12-04
medical condition: syphilis
birth name: 華彥鈞
name in native language: 阿炳

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Abing (; 20 August 1893 or 3 November 1898 – 4 December 1950), born Hua Yanjun () was a blind Chinese musician specializing in the erhu and pipa.

==Early life== Abing was born as Hua Yanjun on either 20 August 1893 or 3 November 1898, in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi, Jiangsu province. His father Hua Qinghe was a Taoist priest and musician. His mother was a widow, and her remarriage to a priest was resented by her family; she remained depressed and died a year after Abing's birth. Abing was raised by extended family until the age of eight, when he went to live with his father at the temple. Abing was the name used by his family. He was given the official name Hua Yanjun at this time and sent to school.

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