Zhou Shuan showed her musical talent in her childhood. At that time, she had no formal music education, and she could only get a little music in the church. Her second sister played the piano in the church, so she learned to recognize the staff and learn to play the piano and sing. From 65438 to 0907, Zhou Shuan was admitted to Gulangyu Women's Normal School. 1908 10 10 On October 30th, the American fleet visited Xiamen for a week. The Qing government set up the 15 archway and tent in the martial arts field in front of Nanputuo Temple as the main welcoming venue. /kloc-Zhou Shuan, 0/4 years old, led the Stars and Stripes at the reception, which was greatly appreciated by American Fleet Commander Emory. He said, "even American children rarely sing so well!" "
19 1 1 year, Zhou Shuan stayed in school to teach after graduating from technical secondary school. For further study, she went to Shanghai Chinese and Western Girls' School 19 12, which attached great importance to music education. At this time, her eldest brother Zhou Senyou has returned to China and is listed as a doctor in Shanghai. His second brother Zhou Jian is studying at St. John's University in Shanghai. Big brother who loves music often practices singing at home with relatives and friends. Zhou Shuan has a strong ability to read music, accompanied by tapes and pianos. My second brother's classmate Hu, from Zhangzhou, often came to join in the fun and met Zhou Shuan. After graduating from college, Hu was admitted to Tsinghua University, and then went to the United States to study medicine at public expense, becoming the first China person to study in this prestigious school.
After studying in Shanghai Chinese and Western Girls' School for two years, Zhou Shuan heard that Tsinghua University was recruiting the first batch of female students at public expense, so he went to take the exam with his senior classmates. Among the ten exams, there is a French class. Zhou Shuan, who has never studied French, studied with his second brother Zhou for two months and then took the exam. In fact, all the courses passed smoothly. She became one of the first batch of 10 beautiful students in China. 19 14 In the summer, 10 female students arrived in San Francisco on the ship "China". Zhou Shuan first went to Brazin College to study English. A year later, she was admitted to Radcliffe Women's College of Harvard University, majoring in art, music and language. 19 19 graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard University. At the same time, she studied vocal music, piano and solfeggio at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. 1917-1919 During the summer vacation, I went to Cornell University to study music teaching method, chorus conductor and composition theory. 1919 ——1920 She went to new york Conservatory of Music to study vocal music and took a social work course at Columbia University. In order to learn more from the university and make continuous progress, she entered a prestigious school and became a famous teacher. She studied hard, was diligent in thinking and dared to practice, almost to the point where she forgot to eat and sleep, and every minute counts. 1920 After graduation, she has been to Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, which greatly broadened her artistic horizons. This autumn, she was reincarnated in Shanghai and married Dr. Hu, the first public health expert in China. They moved into Yuyuan Road and bought a grand piano.
192 1 year, Sun Yat-sen became a very big president of the Republic of China in Guangzhou. The mayor of Guangzhou specially invited Hu to Guangzhou to be the first director of the city health bureau established in China. Zhou Shuan went with her husband and worked as a music teacher in Guangdong Women's Normal School. 1June, 922, Chen Jiongming launched an armed rebellion and shelled the presidential palace, so Hu and his wife had to return to Shanghai. Under the advocacy of Huang Yanpei, Hu became the director-general of China Health Education Association, engaged in health publicity and education. 1923, their son Hu was born. During the period of 1923- 1925, Zhou Shuan studied vocal music from a Russian opera singer in Shanghai and worked as a music teacher in Chinese and Western Girls' Schools. 1925—— 1927, Zhou Shuan returned to his hometown as a music researcher and chorus conductor of Xiamen University and became the earliest music teacher in the history of Xiamen University.
1925, Hu felt that he didn't know much about public health and decided to borrow money to study in the United States. 1In the autumn of 927, Zhou Shuan took his 4-year-old son to the United States to reunite with her husband, and studied vocal music with Minetti, a famous Italian vocalist and vocal director, at the famous Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. 1928, Hu decided to return to China and take a boat from new york to San Francisco via the Panama Canal. In the same year, a family of three returned to Shanghai. Hu is a professor at Shanghai Medical College, and Zhou Shuan teaches music in furniture, and concurrently serves as the chorus conductor of Chinese and Western Girls' School at his alma mater.
At the end of 1928, Shanghai, like many big cities in Europe, held a chorus competition to commemorate the 0/00th anniversary of Schubert's death. Most of the participants are foreigners living in Shanghai, which can be said to be a small international competition. The story background of Schubert, a romantic composer with the reputation of "the king of art songs", not only continues the styles of some classical music schools, but also is relatively free in form, with many levels and rich changes, which can give players and singers a lot of room to play. It is not easy to understand, grasp and express the essence of his works. The chorus of Chinese and western girls' schools, which was conducted by Zhou Shuan, was excellent in performance, accurate in grasping, sincere and sincere, and overwhelmed the strong teams of famous teachers from Britain, France, Russia and Germany, and won the first prize. At that time, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Asia's leading symphony orchestra, was conducted by the famous Italian musician Mei Baiqi, who had a high musical quality and trained a group of piano talents for China. He thinks the Chinese and Western Girls Choir is excellent and full of praise. He immediately wrote to the Chinese and Western Girls Choir to attend the symphony orchestra concert of Shanghai Ministry of Industry. It should be said that this was a rare privilege at that time. You know, in the 1930s, China was poor and weak, and the Shanghai football team lost to the Shanghai Xiqiao football team. Then, this competition between China and foreigners sang Schubert's songs and won the first prize, which greatly increased the ambition of China people! 1927, the famous music educator Xiao (1884- 1940) founded the first conservatory of music in China, the National Conservatory of Music (later renamed as the National Conservatory of Music), with the support of Cai Yuanpei and others. From 65438 to 0928, Xiao Youmei hired Zhou Shuan as the director of the vocal music group. At that time, the directors of the school's piano group and violin group were foreigners, and the director of the vocal group was actually a woman from China, which was unusual and laid the foundation for "killing two birds with one stone". Zhou Shuan is extremely enthusiastic and overworked. In addition to teaching vocal music, she also serves as a chorus conductor and guides solfeggio, and also accompanies solo students on the piano during concerts. Professor Liao Fushu, a famous music historian in China, recalled: "When the chorus program arrived at the concert site, she went to the stage and waved the baton, and the spirits of the chorus members immediately cheered up, making the whole concert colorful."
Zhou Shuan's teaching is very serious and responsible, and he is good at teaching students in accordance with their aptitude. Among the students, she knows all about who has a heavy nasal voice, who has a thick voice and whose voice is easily out of tune, and she points out the maze one by one. She has also held solo concerts herself, but more is vocal music teaching and chorus conductor. She was born with poor sound quality and insufficient volume, but she studied hard and trained hard, and had a deep understanding of music and rich literature, which made up for her congenital deficiency. All the students she teaches have a common advantage, that is, their pronunciation and articulation are very clear and meticulous, and they are praised by foreign teachers when singing foreign songs. She treats vocal music art with a rigorous and scientific attitude. On the basis of studying Chinese and western cultures, she studied national operas, studied the aesthetic principles of traditional operas, learned their special expression techniques, adhered to the teaching principle of "taking words as the center", and pursued China's artistic conception and national artistic charm.
Zhou Shuan respects his career and loves life like a child. She found a student named Hu Ran in her class who studied hard and got good grades, but she was often late for class. After learning about him, she realized that his family was very poor. In order to save the fare, he walked to school. So, Mr. Zhou bought him a tram season ticket at his own expense, so that he could study with peace of mind on time. At that time, Shanghai trams didn't sell monthly tickets, but only season tickets. The price of a season ticket is one month's salary of a small clerk. Later, Russian bass singer Su Shilin came to teach at the school. She put the students' future first and generously asked them to transfer to Su Shilin's class. This broad mind is more valuable than financial support. Hu Ran later became a famous tenor and music educator, and was the founder and president of Hunan Conservatory of Music. Another student, Tang Rongmei, was admitted to the special elective course of vocal music in Shanghai Conservatory of Folk Music with a false age of 18. After Hu Ran's introduction, she studied under Professor Zhou Shuan. Seeing that Tang Rongmei's family was poor, Professor Zhou Shu 'an asked her to pay only 1/3 tuition every semester-20 yuan. Tang Rongmei later became a female singer and music educator in China.
It can be said that Zhou Shuan, Xiao, Xiao and other musicians jointly founded the first higher music institution in China-Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and laid a solid foundation for its development and growth. Professor Yu, a famous musician, recalled: "Mr. Xiao was far-sighted, and widely absorbed outstanding musicians who returned from overseas at that time, such as Ying Shangneng and An Shu, as well as famous foreign singers Cha Halloff, Su Shilin and She Fucuofu who lived in Shanghai, and other musicians with real talents and practical knowledge to teach in our school. The vocal works of Xiao, Xiao, Ying Shangneng, An Shu and others, as well as classical and folk songs "Man Jiang Hong", "Xiao" and "Fengyang Flower Drum" have all been included in the "China Song Textbook."
Zhou Shuan is kind-hearted and open-minded. 1933, a group of people from Shanghai Conservatory of Music made trouble in the school, or tried to overthrow the headmaster's small rule for misunderstanding or other reasons. They think that Zhou Shuan is a small employee and naturally a small "companion"; Xiao Zai 1933 married Qi, and Zhou Shuan acted as a bridge between them, which further proved that their views were "correct". So, they first operated on Zhou Shuan. Although the student tide soon subsided, Zhou Shuan's mind was seriously traumatized. After a few months' rest, she still went to teach music, but Zhao Meibo, who just returned to China, took over as the director of the vocal music group. She was very sad to see this scene of "being born from the same root, why should we fry each other?" She wrote a song "Jin Jian Ge" to express her feelings. This word is Zheng Banqiao's poem "Bamboo Stone":
Insisting on the castle peak is not relaxed, and it is fundamentally in the broken rock;
You are still strong, and you are free, east, west, north and south.
The composer changed the title of the song to "Jin Jiange", which is just a feeling, showing unremitting victory and eternity.
During the cultural revolution, the rebels asked her to criticize the small. She said that although he has a strange temper, he is honest and hardworking, and he is self-denying. At that time, the Kuomintang government was in arrears with funds, and it was difficult for schools to pay wages one after another. Xiao Youmei gave a little money accumulated by the school to the faculty first, but she didn't get his share. Therefore, Xiao Youmei died a poor man. This is what 72-year-old Zhou Shuan, who was designated as a "reactionary academic authority" at that time, said at the critical meeting. He thought it was fair! What a blue heart and romance! The "9. 18 Incident" was a national disaster. Like other patriots, Zhou Shuan used music creation and performance to express his patriotism. She composes her own music and conducts herself, which is even more inspiring and United. 1930 ——1931Music Art, edited and published by the National Conservatory of Music, covers almost every issue of her songs and articles. During this period, she wrote anti-Japanese songs "Anti-Japanese Songs", "Compatriots", "Don't Buy Japanese Goods" and the chorus "Woohoo! And so on. During 193 1 10, she conducted the school choir to sing Huang Zi's "Anti-Enemy Song" and "Flag Flying", and took to the streets to publicize performances and carry out anti-Japanese fund-raising activities. Professor Yu recalled: "The flag is flying and the horse is rustling." "Who is the owner of China's splendid Jiangshan?" Our 400 million compatriots! The sonorous voice, standing upright, is really exciting! The great appeal of China's songs deeply educated and inspired the students in their thoughts and feelings. Later, the students of the Conservatory of Music went to the society in batches, and many of them actively created and performed China's works, which had a causal relationship with the school's emphasis on using China textbooks at that time. At the same time, Zhou Shuan also composed such songs as Optimism, Sleeping Song, Peace of Mind, Cann't be caged, Crow, Rain and Poetry. He has written articles such as Notes on Vocal Music, Children and Music, and Responsibility of Singing Teachers in Primary and Secondary Schools. Singing its songs and reading its text really make me feel that the text is like a person and extraordinary.
Zhou Shu 'an loved reading the modern history of China, and read that Britain openly launched the opium war against China in order to dump opium to China, and she was filled with indignation. She remembered an experience she had in Gulangyu: she had studied piano with a female English teacher. Later, the female teacher returned to China, and Zhou Shuan continued to keep in touch with her. As soon as she knew that Britain bullied China so much, she wrote to scold the teacher. The female teacher wrote back that the British government had committed a serious crime against the people of China, and the British people also opposed the unfair behavior of the British government, hoping to be understood. As a result, Zhou Shu 'an forgave the female teacher and maintained a friendly relationship with her for a long time, showing an attitude of hatred and distinguishing right from wrong.
At the same time, Zhou Shuan also created a large number of artistic songs, especially children's songs. The Collection of Lyric Songs and the Collection of Love Songs, which are listed as a series of the National Conservatory of Music, each contain six piano accompaniment songs, both published by Shanghai Commercial Press 1935. Zhao Yuanren (1892-1982), a famous scholar, praised these nationalized art songs and said, "Optimism (Hu Shi's words) is a work of great musical value."
1932 China Tzu Chi Association published a collection of children's songs with her staff, including 54 songs accompanied by piano. This is a rare and weighty album of children's songs in China in 1930s. In the preface, the author said: "(I) deeply feel the lack of teaching materials for children's songs ... I selected more than 50 lyrics suitable for children's psychology and academic ability from Chen Heqin's poetry collections such as Children's Pictures, Chinese Textbooks for Primary Schools, and Journal of National Conservatory of Music, and made a score by taking advantage of natural interest."
Huang Zi, a famous musician, made a concrete analysis of some of Zhou Shu 'an's songs in the preface of this collection of songs: "Isn't the last sentence of piano accompaniment in Morning Song a description of' birds in the tree'? Isn't the falling chromatic at the end of the song "Little Mouse" a description of the mouse "snoring and rolling down"? Another example is the ups and downs of the sentence "Sailing in the Sea" in "The Width of Heaven and Earth", which implies paddling; It is also obvious that the jumping accompaniment instruction of' riding up the mountain' runs hooves. " "In other songs, music is used to increase the expressive force of poetry, and there are countless places to portray Bishop in this way." "The emotions of music and poetry are completely consistent." "Songs like this can only be regarded as works of art to know the true meaning of music." After being deleted and supplemented, this collection of songs was published by Ming Kai Bookstore 1935, with a total of four volumes and 58 songs, which were divided into two versions: line score and simple score, without piano accompaniment.
It is worth noting that Zhou Shuan's lullaby "Sleeping Song" uses a well-known dialect nursery rhyme in Xiamen: "Hehe is sleepy, one inch older; Oh, sorry, it's a foot bigger. " Two words, repeat eight times. Professor Zhou Chang from the Music Department of Xiamen University commented: "This can be said to be the first coloratura song in China, accompanied by a very simple piano accompaniment (the right hand is basically consistent with the melody of the song, and the left hand is basically decomposed into chords). Playing folk songs with modern composition techniques is basically the practice of the' National Music School'."
Before the Anti-Japanese War, Zhou Shuan also compiled Selected English Polyphonic Singing (193 1) and Selected Schubert Songs (four volumes, 1936), all of which were published by the Commercial Press. Other works were destroyed in the war. From then until 1965, she also created and translated many music works, but unfortunately they were all destroyed in the Cultural Revolution. Fortunately, her paper "My Experience in Vocal Music Teaching" was published in the fourth series of music essays published by 1963. Although we can only get a glimpse of the whole leopard, we can already see Zhou Shuan's essence, widely used, good at work and tireless in teaching people. Zhou Shuan devoted all his enthusiasm and hard work to the development of chorus art in China and did a lot of useful work. She has been a chorus conductor for many years, organizing some China folk songs into four choirs to personally direct students to sing. Xiao is one of them.
When Shanghai fell, she went to the countryside of Chongqing. In the past, several students have been in the music industry. They asked her to come back to teach on the best terms several times, but she refused politely. She would rather do housework in the countryside, do music research, creation and translation, and teach rural children to sing when she is free. Because, she has seen through the filth of society, quiet and far-reaching, and has a clear ambition!
1948 In the spring, her son Hu went to study at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada. Her husband, Hu, has long been disappointed with the Kuomintang regime. He resigned from the nomination of Fujian People's Congress, retired early and retired to Shanghai. Zhou Shuan teaches music in Shanghai Yunyun Girls' School, and teaches vocal music and piano. Husband and wife, living alone, live a cold life. 65438-0956 Shenyang Conservatory of Music hired Hu Wei, a piano professor studying in Canada. Hu obeyed his parents' wishes and returned to China to participate in the construction. Shenyang Conservatory of Music has long admired Zhou Shuan's name and would like to take this opportunity to invite her to the Northeast. However, "once bitten by a snake, three years afraid of straw rope", she can't persist. Later, considering that he was nearly seventy years old, Hu had better spend his old age with his only son. Zhou Shuan was introduced and recommended by her student Lu Ji, the president of China Musicians Association, and invited by Li, the president of Shenyang Conservatory of Music, to be a professor in the institute from 65438 to 0959, when she was 65 years old.
At that time, some people thought that she was past retirement age and I was afraid she was not qualified for the job. However, after she took office, her work enthusiasm and enthusiasm were not lost to young people. According to the requirements of the syllabus, she prepares lessons carefully and teaches carefully. Sometimes she has to give classes to four students in one morning, and there is no rest in each class. She often sacrifices her rest time to make up lessons for sick students. She actively studied the nationalization of vocal music and chose Chinese and foreign art songs, excerpts from operas, folk songs and revolutionary songs as teaching materials. Her teaching is of high quality and strict requirements, so the students have made rapid progress and made great achievements. Under her guidance, the long-standing problems of several vocal music students were solved in a few weeks. Soon, she was universally respected and loved. People saw her tenacious work spirit, old and caring, and regarded her as a mentor and friend. She was elected as a member of the Liaoning Provincial Political Consultative Conference, and 1960 went to Beijing to attend the Third National Literary Congress. She made many new friends and old friends, and she was very happy.
However, the good times did not last long, and bad luck came. 1965, Zhou Shuan's husband Hu died of cerebral hemorrhage. The following year, when the Cultural Revolution broke out, 72-year-old Zhou Shuan was criticized as a "reactionary academic authority". He does reviews and checks every day, and his salary is deducted. Only gave him 18 yuan's living expenses every month. Decentralized to the countryside, the 75-year-old man went to the frozen well platform to fetch water. After three years of torture, Zhou Shuan almost collapsed physically and mentally.
Zhou Shuan's son Hu Zai 1962 "resigned voluntarily" due to illness. During the Cultural Revolution, an "international spy" in Shanghai was quarantined and censored, unable to communicate with his mother. 1969 He suddenly received an incoherent letter from his mother and was shocked after reading it. He quickly wrote to the leaders of Shenyang Conservatory of Music, asking for permission for his mother to retire and return to Shanghai for illness. However, it was regarded as "forced mobilization and retirement home". The mother who was framed for persecution and suffered serious physical and mental injuries had to travel long distances, but her son was still under "isolation review" and was not allowed to leave Shanghai to pick her up. What a pity! The son had to entrust his relatives to pick up his mother in Shenyang. 1970, when Zhou Shuan just returned to Shanghai, he looked stupefied. Fortunately, he soon returned to normal. During the Cultural Revolution, the Hu family was smashed three times, and even the house was confiscated, leaving only the attic on the terrace, with an area of less than 9 square meters. Zhou Shuan lives under the same roof with his son, daughter-in-law and three-year-old granddaughter Hu Yiren. Despite the poor conditions, after the robbery, the whole family was lucky to get together and spend the rest of their lives together.
1973, Zhou Shuan received a letter from Zhao Yuanren, an old friend for many years, saying that he would return to China and would definitely come to see her when he arrived in Shanghai in May. Zhao Yuanren asked to meet Zhou Shuan as soon as she arrived in Shanghai, but the party knew that her family was really ashamed of foreign guests, so she lied to Zhao Yuanren that Zhou Shuan was not in Shanghai. So twice in a row, on the eve of returning to the United States, he insisted to the person in charge: "Zhou Shuan must be in Shanghai, because I have received her letter." The parties concerned can't hide it, so they have to arrange a meeting. Because it is not easy to meet at home, Zhou Shuan was taken to the Peace Hotel by car. Hu asked to be accompanied, but the cadres in the lane refused, and even helped his mother downstairs and sent her to the car! Zhao Yuanren saw Zhou Shuan's gaunt and fearful expression, and he couldn't help but feel dejected and burst into tears! After lunch and a few words, Mr. and Mrs. Zhao Yuanren flew to Hongqiao Airport and left China angrily. Later, Zhao Yuanren said to his friends: "Although I was warmly received by all walks of life and personally received by Premier Zhou Enlai, the climax of the whole process was the meeting with Zhou Shuan."
After meeting with Zhao Yuanren, Zhou Shuan's house was added with a room, and the living conditions were improved. In the late period of the Cultural Revolution, her salary was reissued and she officially went through the retirement formalities. 1974 65438+1On October 5th, the old man who made great contributions to the cause of modern music in China and suffered a lot passed away in desolation and loneliness. Hand in hand with Yu for a lifetime, and turn into a snow soul behind you! On October 9th, 65438/KLOC-0, relatives and friends held a grand funeral for Zhou Shuan at Longhua Crematorium in Shanghai. Many people attended, and the hall was filled with wreaths. People miss this famous musician. She is a famous professor and an official wife. She studied in America for many years and lived in Shanghai, but she lived very frugally. She didn't perm her hair or pay attention to her dress. She often wears a dark monochrome cheongsam and occasionally brings some dark flowers. She doesn't talk much, seldom gets angry, never hurts others with unkind words, never gossips, never speaks ill of others behind their backs, is generous and sincere, and never cares about money and status. Many relatives, friends and students benefit from her, but she never flaunts herself. She has no shelf at all. The nanny is ill and she serves herself. When she gives away old clothes, she always washes and repairs them. She said it was her mother's influence. Seeing that a servant's son is very talented, she tried her best to train and fund him to go to college. People can't help crying when they mention this. Peach and plum are speechless!
More importantly, she has trained so many excellent singers and musicians. Among the four famous singers before and after the founding of New China, three were her students-Yu, Lang. Famous musicians such as Hu Ran, Sun Dezhi, Lu Ji, Hong Daqi, Lao Jing Xian, Tang Rongmei, Chen Jun and Jiang Hua all studied under her. Her personality, her knowledge, her career and her demeanor have been carried forward with the continuous efforts of her students from generation to generation. ...
Yu recalled: "My last professional class was transferred to Mr. An Shu's class. She is knowledgeable, energetic and devoted to teaching. In addition to teaching us solo tracks, she also organizes us to sing in her spare time. We learned the quartet in jester, the sextet (with chorus) in Lucia in Latin American Moore, and let me learn the duet of two tenors in La Traviata, Old Jing Xian and Hu Ran, as well as the duet of J A Wade:' I once wandered in my dreams' ... Teacher Zhou's teaching enriched our learning content, broadened our artistic horizons, learned a lot from various forms of vocal music works, and increased our interest in learning music. I benefited a lot from her hard work. Especially her tireless spirit left a deep impression on me. "
Zhang Quan recalled: "During my short stay in Shanghai, I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Zhou Shuan. At that time, she was a vocal music teacher at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She gave me a lesson for three weeks. She gave me a lot of works after practicing my voice for the first time. ..... Every time I attend class, I almost always go to the silent concert in a low voice. Teacher Zhou said: That's good, as long as you keep the same feelings as when you sing quietly and silently. ..... That was the first time I learned China's art songs. In the last line of Three Wishes for a Rose, there is a bass to B. Teacher Zhou said: Before singing the word "good", you should take a good breath, relax your voice, approach the chest sound area smoothly, and at the same time keep the position of head cavity resonance. In this way, this sentence is easy to get satisfactory sound and emotional effects. ..... Teacher Zhou asked me to enter the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, when I was recruiting students at Jiangwan temporary school site. Accompanied by teacher Zhou, I sang songs such as Three Wishes for Roses. When I was admitted, I had already returned to my hometown in Yixing. "
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Du Fu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said in his poem: "Good rain knows the season, and it happens in spring; Sneak into the night with the wind and moisten things silently. " Zhou Shuan's music teaching, such as spring rain, moistens the seedlings and makes them thrive; It also moistens students' hearts and benefits them immensely.
197965438+On February 8th, Liaoning Provincial Cultural Bureau, Liaoning Branch of Music Association and Shenyang Conservatory of Music held a grand memorial service for Zhou Shuan in the auditorium of Huilonggang Revolutionary Cemetery in Shenyang, and made a realistic evaluation of her life: "Zhou Shuan is a musician of the older generation in China. He has been engaged in music for more than 60 years and devoted his life to music education in China. A large number of outstanding musicians have been trained, some of them are famous musicians or musicians in China, and some are engaged in important music research or famous musicians abroad. Her contribution and influence in the music industry have spread all over the world. "
Zhou Shuan's ashes are placed in Shanghai Longhua Martyrs Cemetery.