The simplified score is as follows:

The "Butterfly Lovers" Violin Concerto was completed in 1959 and premiered in Shanghai in the same year. The two composers, Chen Gang and He Zhanhao, were still students at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music at the time. In response to the domestic policy of "nationalizing symphonic music" at that time, they chose this well-known theme and absorbed the popular Yue Opera of the same name at the time. The melody integrates important plots in the story such as "Caoqiao sworn homage", "Eighteen-year-old farewell", "British-Taiwan resistance to marriage", "Tower meeting" and "Butterflies in front of the grave" into a Western sonata-style presentation part. Development and Reproduction.

The creation of this work is undoubtedly in compliance with the collective creative spirit of communism, but judging from the creative development of the two composers in the past thirty years, the success of "Butterfly Lovers", who No one can take credit for it. As a Yue Opera erhu player, He Zhanhao is very familiar with traditional Chinese music. Since "Butterfly Lovers", his other works can only be said to have smooth and beautiful melodies, and there is no breakthrough in other aspects. And every song Almost all the music can't escape the framework of "Butterfly Lovers", such as "Mo Chou Nu", "The Peacock Flies Southeast", "Couple in Troubled Times", etc., all of which are based on sad and lingering love stories. Chen Gang's works are also lackluster. In the past thirty years, most of his works have been violin solos adapted from folk songs, and almost all of them are trilogies with reproduction. However, due to his extremely gorgeous harmonic language Smooth, many shortcomings of the work itself are covered up by these.

In other words, the success of "Butterfly Lovers" is because He Zhanhao's melody and Chen Gang's harmony are indispensable. Both composers have adapted and rewritten this piece several times since the early 1980s. First, Chen Gang organized the orchestration of the music, and later adapted it into a piano concerto version. He Zhanhao was very angry because of this and publicly stated that he denied all adaptations without his permission. However, he later changed the piece to a Gaohu Concerto for the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. In addition, he also compiled this piece as a pipa concerto, which was recorded by the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra. He once took his son to Hong Kong to play this piece with the Chinese orchestra on violin. Later, it was adapted into a guzheng concerto, which was also performed in China. There are countless other adapted versions or performance forms.

"Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" is one of the four major love stories among Chinese Han folk. The other three are "The Legend of the White Snake", "Meng Jiangnu Weeps at the Great Wall" and "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl". Among them, "The Legend of Butterfly Lovers" is China's most charming oral art and national intangible cultural heritage. It is also the only Chinese folklore that has had a wide impact in the world. Since the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty, it has been circulated among the people for more than 1,700 years. It is a household name in China and has far-reaching popularity. It is known as the eternal song of love. From ancient times to the present, countless people have been infected by the tragic love between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" is as famous as "Romeo and Juliet".