管乐演奏家袁子文,一九○八年出生于山东省巨野县,逝世于一九八一年,袁氏是鲁西南鼓吹乐著名的演奏家。一九二九年开始从艺,为职业艺人,一九五四年,参加华东民间音乐小型会演,一九五四年六月,参加省音乐工作组,善长于吹唢呐、竹笛、笙等管乐器,在当地有「哨呐王之称」,一九五五年,以菏泽著名民间艺人身份参加全国音乐舞蹈会演,获得一等奖。
YUAN Zi-wen
YUAN Zi-wen was born in 1908 in Juye county, Shandong province and passed away in 1981. He was a famous musician of the wind and percussion music of south-west Shandong. In 1929, he started to learn the traditional wind instruments and became a professional musician later. In 1954, he was selected to participate in the Small Joint Performance of Folk Music of Eastern China. In June of that year, he was appointed to join the music work team of Shandong province. He was good at playing the suona, bamboo flute, sheng, etc. He has got the name of “King of the Suona”. In 1955, he was selected to represent Heze of Shandong province to participate in the National Joint Performance of Folk Music and Dance and won a first class award.