Min Huifen Second Creation

Min Huifen,an Erhu virtuoso,is one of the first batch of folk music performers trained by the higher professional musical institutions of new China. During his 50 years of professional musical life spend, he played more than100 pieces of music works, 30 of which become classical. These works, ranging from the 10 pieces of Erhu music created by the pioneer of modern erhu school, Mr. Liu Tianhua in the early 20th century, down to the new erhu music written by the contemporary composers in new techniques in the late 20th century, covers the history of the contemporary erhu development. And in the contemporary erhu history, Min Huifen has becom a banner and a monument due to his achievements, spirit and his personality.Min Huifen's achievements is mainly in the second creation. But as a performing artist, Min Huifen doesn't play erhu in a way of showing off { Min Huifen's playing technique is great, since the premise of the achievement of artistic expression is technical clearance}, nor is the road of art for art, but is the way of emphasizing art purely for life itself. Therefore, the inspection in this article on the erhu creation of Min Huifen is mainly from the following three levels.First,is to study and analysis in the microscopic morphology. That is, the theory of" to imitate people's voice by musical instruments". This is the cells and growing point of her creation. Second is to investigate and analysis in the middle level. That is mainly to study how Min Huifen handles her work as a whole and local processing. Third, the macro-level study and analysis, is mainly about how Min Huifen enriches his artistic expression by learning musical languages from life , tradition ,and people, and how she melts her own ideals into the second creation These three levels of linkages and interaction work together to have created the whole generation of the Min Huifen art. As the focus of the study actually depends on the support of the non-focus, here comes Chapter I and Chapter II. .The first chapter is an overview of Min Huifen's artistic career, with the significance of"the author in history". Chapter II discusses the cultural background and the history of the artistic theory promoted from the practice,"to imitate people's voice by musical instruments". These two parts are the historical information essential to our understanding of Min Huifen's second creation.The contemporary erhu art will soon develop for a century and is still in the accumulation period.It is a practical issue faced with by the contemporary Erhu community as well as the contemporary folk music community how to give impetus to the sustainable and in-depth development of contemporary Erhu art, and how to solve the issue of "Inheritance and Innovation", "Nationality and the Times," and "Nationalization". A problem that turns up has to be solved ,but the abstract argument can not solve it at all. Therefore, this paper tries to find a partial solution to the problem through the analysis of the typical case of Min Huifen's personal journey of art and artistic achievements.Therefore, this study has two meanings. One is the artistic summary of Min Huifen's second creation; the other one is to hope that her artistic achievements may to some extent promote and enlighten the development of the contemporary erhu art.