史掌元是我省和全国著名的农民作曲家,曾任山西省音乐协会副主席,现为省音协名誉主席。50年代末期,他创作的《唱得幸福落满坡》,在全国歌曲创作评比中获一等奖,由山西著名歌手邢丑花演唱后,收进了歌曲磁带,唱遍了大江南北。1976年周总理逝世后,他又创作了《我为总理扎花圈》,表达了亿万人民对周总理的怀念之情。因而被收进了中国音乐出版社出版的歌曲集《十月的歌》。3O多年来,史掌元始终坚持业余创作,共创作了400多首歌曲。他曾作为代表参加了三次全国文代会,有幸见 Shi Zhangyuan is a famous farmer composer in our province and the whole country. He used to be the vice chairman of Shanxi Music Association and is now the honorary president of Guangdong Provincial Music Association. In the late 1950s, his “Singing a Happy Hill” won the first prize in the national songwriting competition. After singing by the famous singer Xing Huanhua in Shanxi Province, he took in a tape of songs and sang through the river north and south. After the death of President Chou in 1976, he also created “I Wreath for the Prime Minister,” expressing the love and memory of hundreds of millions of people with Premier Zhou. Thus has been incorporated into China Music Press’s album “October’s song.” 3O years, the history of Zhang Yuan always adhere to amateur creation, created a total of more than 400 songs. He was fortunate enough to attend three times the National Assembly for Culture as a representative