民間管樂演奏家楊元亨，一八九三年二月二十一日出生於河北省安平縣南王宋村，一九五八年二月二十日病逝於安平縣角丘村，七歲在呂祖廟出家當道士，道名元亨，師從永興及老蓮，學習工尺譜、管、笛、笙、嗩吶、胡琴及敲擊樂，十一歲已能登壇演奏道樂，期間他所抄寫之曲譜，已成研究河北民間音樂的珍貴資料。一九四六年，往定縣子位村吹歌會傳授民間吹管樂，一九五一年，應聘到天津中央音樂學院任教管子專業及民間打擊樂課程，一九五六年，升任副教授。
Yang Yuan-heng Yang was a folk wind instrumentalist. He was born in Hebei in 1893 and died in 1958. He became a Taoist at the age of 7 and learned various types of musical instruments from elder Taoists. He started his performance life since 11 . All the handwritten scores and materials of Yang had become the most precious materials for researching the Hebei folk music. In 1946, he began to teach his art and in 1951, he was invited to Tiantsin Conservatory to teach wind instruments and percussions music. In 1956, he was promoted to vice-professor.