Qu Xiang's father is obsessed with music, and he also likes Beijing opera, calligraphy and painting. Qu Xiang's brother is an excellent flute player. Influenced by the family environment, Qu Xiang became interested in music in his childhood. At the age of seven, his brother began to teach him to play the flute. At the age of eleven, he was able to play some flute songs with considerable difficulty, such as Birds in the Shadow and Welcome.
1956, twelve-year-old Qu Xiang participated in the music and dance performance in Yantai area and won the first prize. 1959 was selected for Shandong Music and Dance Concert. Because of his excellent performance, he was rated as an excellent soloist and was absorbed as a flute player in Shandong Yuejin Song and Dance Troupe. The following year, he was transferred to Shandong Song and Dance Troupe. In the vast world and long years, Qu Xiang has always devoted himself to the flute art with firm perseverance and hard work spirit. Full of breath, heroic bearing, deep feelings, strong local style and distinctive spirit of the times are the outstanding characteristics of Quxiang flute playing art. But this is only a brief summary, as Bai Juyi said in the preface to litchi: "Although it is rough, it is actually excessive."
Qu Xiang's artistic achievements are not only manifested in performance, but also in his years of performance art practice, he devoted himself to studying composition techniques and achieved fruitful results. Qu Xiang debuted and was busy carrying fat. Since then, he has successively created dozens of flute music with a wide range of themes and different styles, such as Red Scarf Train Running to Beijing, Good News from Qingquan, Dance Music for Youth, and Yearning. In these music works, he eulogized the colorful real life with charming artistic marks, thus greatly enriching his performance art.
Qu Xiang's flute music has been widely spread in urban and rural areas, factories and mines, military live performances, radio recording and broadcasting, publishing records, tapes and music collections, and has already spread all over the country and overseas. 1979, People's Music Publishing House published the flute solo album "Yi He Huan Ge" created by Qu Xiang; 1985 club published Selected Flute Practice edited by him and Qu Guangyi, who is engaged in flute teaching in art colleges. This systematic, practical and instructive monograph includes 90 etudes with different styles and techniques. In order to play its role more effectively, the club also selected 30 pieces of music for Qu Xiang and others to record and publish in the form of cassette tapes. At the same time, 1985, the Shanghai branch of China Record Company also recorded and published a cassette with the theme of "Yi He Huan Ge" and "Quxiang Dizi Solo", including 16 pieces of music such as "Qian Fan Race Boat and Set Sail".
Over the years, Qu Xiang has not only traveled all over the country, but also visited Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Egypt, Tanzania, Zambia, Somalia, the United States, Mexico, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Barbados and other countries. As an emissary of cultural friendship, he introduced China's national music art to the people of visiting countries, and enhanced cultural exchanges and friendship with people of other countries. At the same time, they also learned their music art with national characteristics from artists and people all over the world. After returning home, he carefully studied and sorted out, enriched his repertoire and presented a variety of music with different national styles for the people of the motherland. He has consulted Feng Zicun, a flute master in the north, and Lu Chunling, a famous Qu Di artist in the south. Through in-depth understanding, he combined the two schools of flute art into one furnace. In order to absorb and learn from foreign artistic skills, Qu Xiang also studied flute playing hard for eight years, further enriching her playing skills. After years of hard work
Finally, he created the artistic style of flute playing known as "Shandong School" and became a flute player deeply loved by the masses.