The top ten famous Erhu songs are rare handed down works among Chinese national instrumental music. They are: Erquan Reflects the Moon, Good Night, Listening to the Pine, Birds Singing in the Sky, Cold Spring Wind, Moon Night, and Flowing Waves. Song, Song in Sickness, Three Jewels Buddha, Light Walk. These ten pieces of music are all treasures of traditional Chinese music.

Erhu (Pinyin: Erhu) began in the Tang Dynasty and was called "Xi Qin". It has a history of more than a thousand years. It is a traditional Chinese stringed instrument. Erhu, the two-stringed huqin, also known as "Nanhu" and "Omzi", is one of the main bowed string instruments (stringed instruments) in the Chinese national musical instrument family. The timbre of the erhu is almost the same as the human voice, with a singing and telling feel.

Introduction:

Erhu began in the Tang Dynasty and has a history of more than a thousand years. It originated from an ethnic minority in ancient northern my country and was originally called "Ji Qin" and "Xi Qin". The earliest written record of Xi Qin is Tang Dynasty poet Meng Haoran's "Poem of Banquet in the Pavilion of Mountain People": "The bamboo guide brings the Qin in, and the flower invitation carries the wine." The Song Dynasty scholar Chen Yang recorded in "Book of Music" that "Xi Qin's original Hu Leye...".

The poem written by Cen Shen, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, "The Chinese army prepares wine and drinks for returning guests. Huqin, Pipa and Qiangdi" shows that the Huqin began to spread in the Tang Dynasty, and the Huqin is a Chinese and Western stringed and plucked instrument. general name.

In the Song Dynasty, Chen Yuanliang, a scholar at the end of the Song Dynasty, recorded this in "Shi Lin Guang Ji": Ji Qin was originally made by Ji Kang, hence the name "Ji Qin". Shen Kuo, a great scholar of the Song Dynasty, recorded in "Bu Bi Tan·Music Temperature": "In the palace banquet of Xining, Xu Yan, an actor from the Jiaofang, played Ji Qin. After drinking wine, one string was broken, and Yan was even more difficult to play. He only used one string to finish. "Qu" shows that the performance level was very high in the Northern Song Dynasty.

When Xu Yan was playing "Ji Qin" for the emperor and ministers, one string broke, but he still used another string to finish the music. It can't be done without skilled skills. Later, Shen Kuo recorded in "Mengxi Bi Tan" that "the horse-tail huqin followed the Han Dynasty, and the sound of the music was still self-pity Shanyu. Don't bend your bow to shoot the geese in the clouds. The returning geese are not sent out now." This shows that the horse-tail harp was already in the Northern Song Dynasty. Hu Qin.