{"id":6223,"date":"2019-11-09T15:15:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T15:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/er-hu-erhu-the-chinese-violin\/"},"modified":"2019-11-09T15:15:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T15:15:52","slug":"er-hu-erhu-the-chinese-violin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/er-hu-erhu-the-chinese-violin\/","title":{"rendered":"\u4e8c\u80e1 Erhu, the Chinese Violin"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Erhu (\u4e8c\u80e1èr hú),<\/strong> or the Chinese fiddle, is a two-stringed musical instrument known to westerners as the Chinese violin. The Erhu is one of the most popular traditio<\/em>nal Chinese musical instruments used by the various ethnic groups of China.<\/p>\n

It first originated in the northern fro<\/em>ntier regions during the Tang Dynasty, and has more than a thousand years of history. At that time, the Erhu was known as a "Huqin", literally the "Hu violin". Tang Dynasty poet Cen Sen o<\/em>nce wrote this:<\/p>\n

zh\u014dng j\u016bn zhì ji\u01d4 y\u01d0n gu\u012b kè \uff0chú qín pí pá y\u01d4 qi\u0101ng dí
\u4e2d\u519b\u7f6e\u9152\u996e\u5f52\u5ba2\uff0c\u80e1\u7434\u7435\u7436\u4e0e\u7f8c\u7b1b\u3002<\/strong>
Wines are offered by the Commander to entertain his returning fro<\/em>ntier troops;
In accompaniment to the banquet are huqin, pipa and qiang bamboo flutes.<\/p>\n

What Cen Sen had written is proof that the huqin had become popular in the Tang Dynasty.<\/p>\n

The Erhu is a long-handled wooden barrel instrument with two strings. One side of its music barrel is covered by snake skin leather. Its sound reso<\/em>nates between the mid and treble sound range, and has similar emotio<\/em>nal and expressive qualities as the human voice.<\/p>\n

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[èr hú]\u4e8c\u80e1 Erhu
[yuè qì]\u4e50\u5668 musical instrument
[y\u012bn yuè]\u97f3\u4e50 music<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

The Erhu first appeared on stage as a solo instrument in the 1920s thanks to the great co<\/em>ntributions made by famous erhu solo players Hua Yanjun(also nicknamed Blind A-Bing) and Liu Tianhua. Prior to this, the Erhu was more often used as part of a folk music co<\/em>ncert or to the accompaniment of folk so<\/em>ngs and operas. By far the most famous representative Erhu soloist pieces include "\u4e8c\u6cc9\u6620\u6708(èr quán yìng yuè) The Reflection of the Moon<\/strong>" which is soul-inspirational, and "\u6c5f\u6cb3\u6c34(ji\u0101ng hé shu\u01d0)The River Water<\/strong>" that is moody and heart-touching.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n