Inside a small workshop packed with cupboards and a carpenter’s bench, 76-year-old Tong Man-hak carefully measures pieces of wood and places them precisely before using an electric saw to cut them.

The sound of the traditional Chinese musical instrument erhu is becoming better known globally thanks to the effort of one college student. Chen Yimiao, born in 2004, comes from a Beijing family ...

"Her erhu narrates universal tales, with its two strings painting scenes beyond words," a UN-based journalist said after experiencing a concert by Chinese erhu virtuoso Ma Xiaohui. Recently, Ma, a ...

This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’s” theme music is typified by the sounds of a melancholy stringed instrument. Without hearing it before, you might think the music was a special type of ...

Erhu, bowed, two-stringed Chinese vertical fiddle, is the most popular of this class of instruments and is always featured along with other traditional Chinese instruments such as the Pipa in the ...

Photo taken on May 13, 2019 shows the bow and the strings of an Erhu in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province. Erhu, sometimes known as the Chinese violin or Chinese two-stringed fiddle, is a ...

All sounds originate from the heart. Erhu (two-stringed fiddle) music can be passionate or euphonious, expressing the player's feelings in the most intuitive way. It can even imitate the human voice.

Talent is a ticket. Some people use it to nail auditions, others to get into a top school. Jia Pengfang used his to see the world, and his particular talent was the erhu. Born in 1958 in China's ...

"I hope to organize my concert in the near future, so I can help more people learn about Chinese folk music." Zheng Xiaohui, a postgraduate student in Milan, Italy, shared that wish during an ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- "Her erhu narrates universal tales, with its two strings painting scenes beyond words," a UN-based journalist said after experiencing a concert by Chinese erhu virtuoso Ma ...