Hu Zhihou, renowned guanzi performer and educator, Professor at the Central Conservatory of Music’s Department of Chinese Instruments. In 1952, he was admitted to the conservatory’s junior programme (now the affiliated high school). As a student and sole successor of the famous musician Yang Yuanheng, he inherited nearly lost virtuoso techniques of the guanzi. After graduating in 1964, he continued teaching at the same conservatory as China’s first professional guanzi instructor.