After graduating from high school, he went back to his hometown as a farmer, because he likes to think, good to learn more art, after getting married in 1975, he often sat with a camera in the country, the collective side business. After the reform and opening up, but also engaged in professional photography.
Gu Yangfeng has a strong passion for orchids and orchid appreciation. In the early years, he found that there were many orchids on the hillside of Xiaonanhai, so he selected and dug seedlings from the hillside and planted them into the courtyard to observe and cultivate, and in 1993, he found that three of them were unusually special, and the center of the flowers was like a smiling Maitreya Buddha, sitting on a lotus platform on a red pedestal, with a fantastic appearance, and he succeeded in cultivating a new species of orchid "Chinese Buddhist Orchid, South China Sea Guanyin", which was appraised by experts and recognized as the most famous orchid in China. "After expert appraisal, it was registered by the Chinese Orchid Variety Registration Committee with the number 44 of Orchidaceae, which is the only formally named Buddhist orchid in China at present.
In the fall of 1984, Gu Yangfeng founded a chemical plant. After more than 300 days and nights of repeated tests, he successfully refined a variety of non-ferrous metals and non-metallic mineral processing agents from grease precipitates, and passed the national appraisal.
In 1990, Gu Yangfeng for a mining enterprise to complete the beneficiation project, the factory representative in a jeep to lead him up the mountain to shoot the scenery, by chance, Gu Yangfeng found some black stone in the ravine, "these stones are too peculiar, it is dense and hard, smooth and delicate. Fibrous, polished surface is matte, they picked up a few pieces, brought back to the laboratory, from the molecular structure to the performance characteristics of the full range of research, carved into crafts. Exquisite stone makes Gu Yangfeng can not stop, with a strong curiosity, he searched the Qinling Mountains, finally found a larger deposit. "It is so amazing, like cloth, longitudinal and horizontal intertwining, inside the cave is soft, can break the bend, transported out to see the wind to harden, can be cut at will, the thinnest can be cut into 2 millimeters of plate."
This major discovery, so that Gu Yangfeng excited. So he began to use these stones to make furniture and speakers. 1996, he was invited to participate in the 30th International Geoscience and Technology Conference. In 173 countries and regions of more than 6,000 geological experts and writers to participate in the General Assembly, he introduced his own research on the use of fibrous jade results, so that the participating geologists marveled at the organizing committee of the General Assembly issued him a "fill a gap in the application of mineral resources" certificate.
Special National Gift
In 1995, Gu Yangfeng enlarged the original serigraph "Eighty-Seven Immortals Scrolls" in the collection of Mr. Xu Beihong, and carved a 15-meter-long giant stone carving with fiber jade. Cultural celebrities highly evaluated this brilliant masterpiece, saying: "Such a scale of stone carving line carving figure painting, can be called a rare treasure".
In 1995, the World Women's Congress was held in Beijing, he donated the topography of "87 Gods and Immortals Volume" to the Congress.
In the fall of 2000, "87 Gods and Immortals Volume" topography in Japan, Izumo City, international cultural exchanges on display for a week, caused a great shock.
Gu Yangfeng was hired as a master craftsman to make national gifts. Later, Gu Yangfeng also sculpted the "Chao Yuan Immortal Scepter Figure" and "Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes Guanyin", which, together with the topiary scroll of the "87 Immortal Scrolls", became a special national gift for international friends.
"The world's first stone qin" shocked the world
Fiber jade like a plank of wood, Gu Yangfeng came up with a bigger idea: since 1993, Gu Yangfeng began to make stone erhu, he carved the erhu is extremely beautiful, the body of the instrument is decorated with a whole dragon, the window is a dragon head spitting, a dragon pearl in the mouth, once pulled, it will be in the mouth of the dragon, and then it will be in the mouth of the dragon. When the instrument is pulled, it rotates in the dragon's mouth. The sound of the violin is magnificent, soft and clear, just like the vibration from the deep mountain valley. Zhou Wei, the erhu soloist of the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, excitedly praised it as the "Dragon's Treasure Qin".
In 1996, Gu Yangfeng reference violinist Sheng China's hands of a famous European violin, successfully produced a stone violin. 1996 October, he successfully developed a jade piano.
Over the years, Mr. and Mrs. Sheng have become close friends. Once, Valley Yangfeng to Sheng in the country guests, see the living room is placed in the 180-centimeter-high speakers, even said "too grand." Sheng China said proudly, "You know, my speakers are numbered in Beijing, just a few sets." Valley Yangfeng and invited Sheng China couples to their own homes, the couple played the disk into the stereo, heard Valley Yangfeng homemade stone speakers out of the "Confession", "Swimming Song", the couple was stunned, Sheng China said: "Music is not in the ear, but as if in the stomach echo, this is the real good speakers."
April 26, 1999, Gu Yangfeng with his stone erhu, violin, piano and a set of stone speakers, was invited into the Kunming Expo Park, his stone violin was displayed in the Chinese Pavilion Hall Zero on the first seat, on behalf of the national exhibition.
The black stone violin shocked the world, former U.S. President George W. Bush sat down to play the jade piano, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations Gali inscription "a new miracle of the world, the pride of the Chinese people." Gali's wife even said "wonderful, wonderful!" World Bank President Jean Mihiel signed the inscription: "Great Chinese stone musical instruments, the world's great boutique." The director of the American Country Folk Music Troupe, Mr. Bode Schneider, said, "I played the stone violin and piano, and it was indeed a rare experience in my life." Mr. and Mrs. Jones, directors of the Sydney Opera House in Australia, inscribed, "What we hear in the West is the sound of celestial bodies, and it is incredible to hear the wonderful music coming out of the stones in China!"
Richard Clayderman was so excited to play the jade piano that he played with one hand and danced with the other, and appreciated, "I played one of the best upright stone pianos in the world."
Gu Yangfeng and his magical and wonderful celestial music famous at home and abroad, in a year, *** received the German Chancellor Gerhard Schr?der, Prince Charles of the United Kingdom and other social groups in more than 120 countries, state dignitaries, scholars and artists, the World Expo closing, the director of the organizing committee of the General Assembly, the State Council's former Vice Premier Li Lanqing for the Gu Yangfeng awarded the "world's first stone piano" special award. The "World's First Stone Piano" special award.
Gu Yangfeng's calligraphy works have been collected by the heads of state, dignitaries and museums of more than 80 countries.
In 2000, CCTV, Shanghai Oriental Television, and the headquarters of the World Guinness Tournament invited the "World's First Stone Violin" to participate in the World Guinness Tournament. Violin soloist Sheng China, Japan's famous pianist Yuko Yorita jointly played the Valley Yangfeng jade violin, jade piano, "the world's first stone violin" once again caused a sensation