"Erhu has two strings, one end is connected to China, the other is connected to Japan." Recently, Nagoya Municipal Aichi Elementary School in Japan and Nanchang Road Elementary School in Nanjing City, China held a signing ceremony for the conclusion of an international friendship school through video connection. The first pair of international friendship schools established through Erhu.

Nagoya Municipal Aichi Elementary School of Japan and Nanchang Road Elementary School of Nanjing City of China held the signing ceremony of signing an international friendship school through video. The first in the front row on the right is Hua Ping, the principal of Nanchang Road Primary School. (Pictures provided by respondents)
The establishment of friendship between two foreign primary schools is inseparable from Zhang Bin, a Chinese artist living in Japan who has been promoting exchanges between the two schools with erhu. Over the years, Zhang Bin has continued to promote Erhu culture in Nagoya and other places. During the epidemic, many Japanese elementary schools could no longer use the piccolo in class, so Aichi Elementary School invited Zhang Bin to teach the children erhu lessons. Children's love for the erhu made Aichi Elementary School the first school in Japan to officially incorporate the erhu into the music classroom. In November 2021, under the communication of Zhang Bin, Aichi Primary School and Nanjing Nanchang Road Primary School in Nanjing, China, held an online music exchange meeting in the form of video, which opened up the horizons of children from the two countries. close to each other's hearts.

Students from Aichi Elementary School and students from Nanchang Road Elementary School exchange greeting cards. The left is the Japanese work, the right is the Chinese work. (Pictures provided by respondents)
With interest and joy, on New Year's Day in 2022 and the Spring Festival in 2022, children from the two countries presented hand-painted greeting cards to each other, deepening their friendship. Nowadays, in the music class of Aichi Elementary School, children not only learn erhu, but also take the initiative to learn about Chinese culture; and the students of Nanchang Road Elementary School also look forward to visiting each other's schools as soon as possible. It can be said that erhu has opened a window for the children of the two countries to understand the culture of other countries.

After the signing ceremony, Yumiko Shibayama, the principal of Aichi Elementary School (left in the front row), and Zhang Bin, a Chinese artist living in Japan (right in the front row), took a group photo together. (Pictures provided by respondents)
At the signing ceremony, Yumiko Shibayama, principal of Aichi Elementary School, said, "I hope that through the conclusion of friendship schools, children can learn the culture and way of thinking of each other's countries, and cultivate children's international vision." Hua Ping, principal of Nanchang Road Primary School, said, "Aizhi Primary School's concept of 'symbiosis and learning' is similar to Nanchang Road Primary School's philosophy of 'enjoying learning, enjoying life, enjoying childhood, and enjoying growth'. I hope the two schools have similarities. It can help students learn to appreciate the culture of other countries, pass on friendship, and spread human civilization." Zhang Bin said that he hopes to continue to explore the channels of cultural exchanges between China and Japan through erhu in the future, and use erhu to build a wider and wider bridge of Sino-Japanese friendship.
Plant a seed and reap a bunch of flowers. The relationship between countries lies in the blind date of the people, and the exchanges between the youths of China and Japan will definitely affect the future of the people-to-people exchanges between China and Japan.