The history of erhu can be traced all the way back to the year 754, from the Tang Dynasty’s huqin and xiqin. This article is talk about erhu’s basic introduction, history and  also huqin family’s evolution timeline. In the different places, huqin has their owm character to suit for the local music. For example, in  Inner Mongolia the local people use Matouqin to showing the boldness and cheerfulness of their character.  Overtime we can see how the huqin has changed in different historical periods. There are also lots of other tradition Chinese instrument appeared at the same time during this period. In additionally, the emergence of new traditional folk music compositions and composers laid the foundation for the development of Chinese music. 

Caiyi  Li. A Systermtic Review on Erhu. Frontiers in Art Research (2022) Vol. 4, Issue 11: 14-21. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2022.041104.

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