Relation between the Formation of Erhu styles and Cultural Conditions of Yu School and Qin School in Contemporary China

Abstract

On a large territory that spans an amazing variety of landforms, China has given birth to multitudinous cultural areas that differentiates from one another greatly. Grassland culture, Lingnan culture, Jiangnan (south China) culture, Qi-Lu culture, and Central Plains culture and Sanqin culture to be expanded in the next two sections all feature distinctive artistic attraction and offer a kind of spiritual soil where simple locals take root. Erhu, a two-stringed bowed musical instrument of the nation, progressed by leaps and bounds in the past hundred years and bore on regional cultures amid the course. Central Plains Culture in Henan and Sanqin Culture in Shaanxi made a case in point in this regard, as their ideological and cultural connotations, language accents, and folk operas exerted an essential effect on the trend and growth of such musical instrument in local areas. Efforts in combing and correlating these contents reveal fundamental causes of the two varying Erhu styles and serve further study and exploration.