On April 7th, by the Zijiang Doukui Tower, the willows were light and the wind was light, and the lake was full of spring. Zhou Long, who loves erhu performance and has been teaching erhu all the year round, took advantage of the time when the city's senior university was required to suspend classes due to epidemic prevention and control.

seeds, sprouting deep in the mountains

Zhou Long was born into a disabled family in Dashanli, Anhua County. His father was good at folk arts such as Erhu and Pingtan. Under the influence of his eyes and ears, 6-year-old Zhou Long has been infected with the warm, desolate, or beautiful melody of Erhu Xianqu, and he pestered his father to teach himself how to play Erhu. In order to encourage Zhou Long's enthusiasm, his father spent more than 100 yuan to buy an erhu with the highest price tag from the county seat when he was in financial constraints in the late 1980s. Since then, Zhou Long has received the most precious gift in his life. This erhu accompanied Zhou Long through elementary school and junior high school until Zhou Long was admitted to the Yiyang Normal School at that time.

The poverty of the family did not wipe out Zhou Long's delicate tentacles. In addition to studying and working, Erhu became Zhou Long's most loyal partner in his childhood. As long as he picks up the erhu, flicks his fingers over the silk strings of the ponytail, smoothes the strings with wax, and strokes the old snakeskin's piano barrel, the troubles of the young man will fly away. When he adjusted the timbre and played classic songs such as "Spring in the South of the Yangtze River" and "Erquan Reflecting the Moon", Zhou Long's thoughts flew along with the sound of the piano, and he was immersed in the world of music.

Dreams shine in persistence

Hard work pays off. Zhou Long continued to worship famous teachers in school, and won the first prize in the art competition of middle school teachers in his studies. He graduated as a city "special student" and "excellent student" and became an excellent people's teacher. Later, he joined the city art troupe as an erhu soloist. Members, continue to swim in the ocean of music. Step by step, Zhou Long was elected as the executive director of the Erhu Society of Hunan Province, and the executive vice president and secretary general of the Erhu Society of Yiyang City.

In 2009, the Municipal University for the Elderly discovered Zhou Long, a star of folk music, and sincerely invited Zhou Long to teach the Erhu class. Retired veterans Zhang Dehui and Xia Yunxin became the students of Zhou Long's Erhu Class. These amiable and respectable old cadres are very serious in learning, and their love for erhu is also crazy. Every time they go to the children's house in Changsha, the erhu is an essential piece of luggage. Wherever the people go, the erhu will follow them. They also team up with a few old friends to give Zhou Long a calligraphy. Art biography, one bow and one finger, always cares about love", which was horizontally criticized as "Shuangxin of virtue and art".

Tao Fukang, a 92-year-old volunteer army veteran, made a special trip to give his teacher a pennant in military uniform a few years after leaving the Erhu class to thank his teacher for his erhu teaching spirit. Zhou Long lived up to expectations. In September 2021, Zhou Long led more than 300 erhu students he taught to perform "Me and My Motherland" with an erhu flash mob in Xiufeng Park to present the 70th birthday of the motherland, attracting citizens. Stop to take pictures and praise these students for promoting the excellent national culture in the form of a flash mob, so that the power of tradition can move and inspire people, so that ordinary people can also absorb the essence of national culture.

Many parents knew Zhou Long's character and level very well, and they gave their children to Zhou Long with confidence. Many children are from elementary school, junior high school, all the way to high school. For more than ten years of teaching, the students brought out by Zhou Long have sprung up and thrived. Every year, several students receive good news about the college entrance examination. The children are admitted to ideal schools such as the Central Conservatory of Music and Hunan Normal University with their excellent erhu majors. Zhou Long returned a generous gift to the parents for their trust. Cao Shiyu, who has been studying erhu with Zhou Long, was admitted to Hunan Normal University with an erhu major, and in 2021, he was admitted to a postgraduate major in erhu.

Good family style, inherited in the sound of erhu

A good family style is an asset. Zhou Long took over the national music fire from his father, and naturally he also wanted to pass it on from generation to generation. Under the influence of Zhou Long, his wife, who was originally engaged in financial work, also fell in love with erhu learning while accompanying her son and daughter to practice erhu. My daughter is in the second grade of Yixintai Foreign Language School. In addition to her outstanding academic performance at a young age, her extracurricular specialties are also very rewarding. Erhu, piano and Latin dance are compulsory homework for herself every day. My son also started practicing erhu at the age of 6. In elementary school, he passed the national tenth grade, and also won the bronze medal and excellent performance award in the provincial erhu competition. In an even more surprising year, in 2021, he won the first prize in the "Three Independence" competitions in Heshan District and Yiyang City. Not easy honor.

Zhou Long enthusiastically dedicated his talents on the road of inheriting national music, and also gained a lot of touching in his life. When a family of four played the famous Erhu song "Horse Racing" at the same time, the beautiful scenery not only moved the audience, but also moved Zhou Long himself.