江河水 (Jiāng hé shuǐ / Rivers and Streams)

江河水 ("Jiāng hé shuǐ") was originally a folk song in the north and south of Liaoning. It was not an instrumental work at first, but a brand song of vocal music, which appeared in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and was called 江儿水 ("Jiang er shui") at that time. In the early 1950s, composers Zhu Guangqing, Wang Shilu, and performers Gu Xinshan and Zhu Changan adapted it into a shuāngguǎn (double-pipe) solo, endowing it with new content and life, and its name became "Jiāng hé shuǐ". In the early 1960s, 黄海怀 (Huáng Hǎihuái), a young teacher of Hubei Institute of Arts, was deeply moved after listening to it, and had the idea of ​​transplanting this piece to the erhu. After his second creation, the erhu song "Jiāng hé shuǐ" was born in 1962. In 1963, his student Wu Suhua performed the erhu version of "Jiāng hé shuǐ" at the Shanghai Spring Music Festival, and became famous in one fell swoop. Since then, "Jiāng hé shuǐ" has become famous all over the world, and its spread is really like the water of rivers and rivers, endlessly, without end. – https://www.sohu.com/a/292375927_120051694