Who is the No.1 National Erhu Artist?

No authoritative ranking, well-known Liu Tianhua, Hua Yanjun (Ah Bing), Sun Wenming, Jiang Cairu, Lu Rirong and so on.

1, Liu Tianhua

Liu Tianhua (February 4, 1895 - June 8, 1932), formerly known as Liu Shouchun, a native of Xihengjie, Chengjiang Town, Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province, is a modern Chinese composer, virtuoso and music educator.

Son of Liu Baoshan, a scholar at the end of the Qing Dynasty, he was a brother of poet Liu Bannong and musician Liu Beimao. Since his childhood, he was inspired by the rich folk music of his hometown. After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, he returned to Jiangyin to join the "Jiangyin Anti-Manchu Youth League" and took charge of the bugle.

In 1912, he went to Shanghai with his brother, Liu Bannong, and worked at the Kaiming Drama Club. In his spare time, he joined the Universal Music Ensemble, studied piano and violin, and came into contact with Western composition theory.

She taught at the Music Research Society of Peking University, and died of scarlet fever in 1932 at the age of 37 in Beijing. His masterpieces include "Bright Walk", "Good Night", "Birdsong on the Empty Mountain", "Song and Dance Leader", and "Flying Flowers Pointing to the Green", etc. He was also a member of the Peking University Music Society.

2. Hua Yanjun (Ah Bing)

Abing (August 17, 1893-December 4, 1950), formerly known as Hua Yanjun, born in Wuxi City, a folk musician and Taoist priest of the Zhengyi School, was blinded by an eye disease.

Abing studied Taoist music assiduously, striving for excellence, and drew extensively on folk music tunes, composing and performing more than 270 folk tunes in his lifetime***.?

His father, Hua Qinghe, was the head Taoist priest of the Leizun Temple, a Taoist temple in the Sanqing Temple in the city of Wuxi, and specialized in Taoist music. Hua Yanjun lost his mother when he was four years old and was raised by his aunt of the same clan, and at the age of eight he joined his father as a young Taoist priest at the Leizun Temple. He began to study in a private school for three years, and then learned drums, flute, erhu, pipa and other instruments from his father.

At the age of 12, he was already able to play a variety of musical instruments, and often participated in activities such as worship, chanting, and playing music, etc. At the age of 18, he was praised by the Wuxi Taoist music community as an accomplished performer.

Abing died on December 4, 1950, at the age of 57, after a long illness.

Abing now retains six pieces of the erhu piece "Two Fountains Reflecting the Moon", "Listening to the Pines", "Cold Spring Wind Song" and the pipa piece "The Great Wave", "Dragon Boat" and "Zhaojun's Exodus from the Frontiers of the Frontiers".

3, Sun Wenming

Sun Wenming (1928 ~ 1962): folk musician. Born in Shangyu, Zhejiang Province.

Sun Wenming was blinded by smallpox at the age of four. When he was twelve years old, his father died. Forced to make a living, he studied fortune-telling and wandered around, then learned erhu as a means of livelihood. When he was learning, he first imitated and played, and was good at absorbing folk songs and ditties, and he learned all kinds of operas and tunes, and then he made up his own performances.

In the early days of liberation, Sun Wenming composed two songs in Nanjing, namely, "Sending Listening" and "Playing Six", and "Playing Six" imitated stringed instruments without using the jack;

In 1952, Sun made "Flowing Waves" and "Four Square Songs", which participated in the Music and Dance Concert of Jiangsu Province and won high appraisal and awards.

In 1959, he was invited by the Shanghai National Orchestra to pass on the art of playing erhu, and then taught at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He was invited by the Shanghai National Orchestra to teach in Shanghai in 1959 and later went to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Sun Wenming's erhu playing art is creative, and he can adopt the unique octave setting according to the needs of musical performance. Among the eight erhu pieces he composed, "Flowing Waves" is a masterpiece.

4. Jiang Cailu

Jiang Cailu (1945--- ) was born in Chengdu. Jiang Caiyu is one of the most accomplished erhu players in the world, and was known as "Jiang in the North and Min in the South".

As early as the 1960s, when he was in his second year of university, he composed and played the erhu song "Beijing has a golden sun", which became a national hit. Since then, he has published works such as "Memory of Loved Ones", "Joyful Yi Village", "Military and People's Song", "Spring in Liangshan", "Song of the Boat on the Chuanjiang River", "Cuizhu Chant", "Drunken Barley", and "White Snake Turning" (a collaborative work), which is a concerto for the erhu.

Some of the works won awards in national and military professional competitions, and some of them were compiled into the teaching materials of colleges and universities of art, and some of them were included in the "Complete Book of Chinese Music" (erhu volume).

5. Lu Rirong

Lu Rirong was born on June 1, 1933, in June County, Hubei Province, China. 1945, he participated in the literary work, and in 1950, he was appointed as the band of Hanzhong Literary and Artistic Work Troupe. In 1950, he became a member of the band of the Hanzhong Literary and Artistic Work Troupe. Later, he was admitted to the Northwest Academy of Arts, where he studied erhu, and concurrently studied composition and conducting.

Graduated in 1954 and stayed in the school as a teacher, serving as erhu teaching, folk band conductor. He has served as director of the teaching and research room, department head, and vice president. He is currently a professor and master's tutor at the Xi'an Conservatory of Music, deputy director of the Ethnic Music Committee of the Chinese Musicians Association, vice president of the Chinese Ethnic Orchestral Society, president of the Shaanxi Ethnic Orchestral Society, and artistic advisor to the Shaanxi Provincial Opera and Dance Drama Theatre's Ethnic Symphony Orchestra.

Among his students were the famous Chinese musicians Zhao Jiping, Ji Xiping, and so on.