Zhao Shuanghu, a famous Mongolian four-hu player and educator. Zhao Shuanghu has made great contributions to the performance and teaching of the Mongolian Four Hus, as well as the reformation and theoretical research of this musical instrument.

Zhao Shuanghu was born in February 1942 in a rural area in Keyouqian Banner, Xing'an League, Inner Mongolia (formerly Keyouqian Banner, Hulunbuir League). His parents were farmers. Because the elderly in the family prefer music, he has been influenced by music since he was a child. At the age of 7, he began to learn Sihu from folk artists in the village, and played with them in ensemble, and gradually developed a strong interest in Sihu.

In 1959, Zhao Shuanghu was admitted to the Inner Mongolia Art School (the predecessor of Inner Mongolia University Art College) with excellent grades, and began to systematically study the art of Sihu under the tutelage of Wang Baocheng. Teacher Wang's four-hu playing skills are superb, and his teaching is also very serious, which has laid a solid foundation for him. In 1960, he began to learn Sihu under the tutelage of Tiegang, a famous folk Sihu artist who was already a teacher at the Inner Mongolia Art School at that time. Zhao Shuanghu learned from Tiegang in just two years, and has received many true teachings about the art of Sihu. In 1962, he began to learn the Four Hus under the tutelage of Sun Liang, a master of the Four Hus. Under the careful guidance of Mr. Sun Liang, he completely mastered the "Sun's Playing Method". After these learning processes and his own unremitting efforts, his performance skills became more proficient, his musical expression became stronger, and he gradually formed his own playing style.

In 1962, Zhao Shuanghu graduated with honors and stayed at the school to teach, becoming a professional Sihu teacher. In the same year, he co-organized the Sihu and Sanxian duet - "Wu Ma Youth" (Wu Yunlong's Sihu Solo) together with the school's sanxian teacher Hu Liyage, which had a great influence at the time and became a model for the Sihu and Sanxian duet. . As long as people mention or hear the duet of Sihu and Sanxian, they will think of the master of Sihu, Zhao Shuanghu. In 1974, he composed the four-hu solo "Horse Tamer" and "Happy Pasture". In 1976, he compiled the intermediate Sihu textbook in Chinese and used it in the school. In 1978, this textbook was translated into Mongolian and published by Inner Mongolia People's Publishing House, filling the gap of Sihu textbooks. In the same year, Zhao Shuanghu accompanied the troupe to Pakistan, Burundi, Tanzania, Seychelles and other four African countries to perform. From 1976 to 1978, he participated in large-scale activities such as the National Ethnic Minority Art Show and the National Music Performance. Through these performances, the Mongolian soprano four hus were introduced to the people of the whole country and the world, and a bridge was built for the brothers to understand the Mongolian music culture. In 1988, he compiled the Sihu part of the textbooks "Sihu Textbook" and "Folk Encyclopedia Dictionary" for colleges and universities. In 1990, he and Duan Tingjun, a piano technician from Inner Mongolia National Musical Instrument Factory (now Hohhot Xincheng Yinyi Matouqin Musical Instrument Factory), developed and reformed the "Double Sleeve Four Hus", which won the fourth prize of the Ministry of Culture's Science and Technology Progress Award, and also won the Inner Mongolia Science and Technology Progress Award. second prize. In the same year, he published the papers "Mongolian Four Hus Two Questions" and "Basic Four Hus and Mongolian Rap Art". In 1993, he won the second prize of the "Sihu Teaching Reform" in the autonomous region. In 1998, he published the thesis "On Hu'er" and "The Art of Performance of the Four Hu Performer Master Sun Liang". Retired in 2002. In 2007, he won the "Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award" issued by the Art College of Inner Mongolia University, and the "Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award" issued by the Inner Mongolia Sihu Association.