On October 30, the "Jiangnan Erhu Art Inheritance and Research Summit Forum" was held online. The forum focused on "Jiangnan Erhu Art" and discussed performance and teaching, history and creation, Shanghai style Jiangnan and cultural communication. Song Fei, Hu Zhiping, Xiao Mei, Ma Youde, Lu Rirong, Wang Yongde, Zhao Hanyang, Gao Yang, Chen Chunyuan, Wang Haiyuan, Qi Kun, Wang Anchao, Lin Fuqiang, Zhang Chongxue, Gu Huaiyan and Zhang Yueru, 16 experts and scholars from many universities and art troupes at home and abroad, participated in the forum. The content of the forum will be broadcast online on November 6.

Erhu art has a profound historical accumulation in Jiangnan. Jiangnan folk opera, quyi and folk music provided the impetus for the development of erhu art. Teahouses, stages and folk activities, which are prosperous due to economic activities, provide a stage for the performance of Jiangnan erhu. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a variety of bow and string instruments of Hu Qin were popular in Jiangnan. Since modern times, several generations of musicians born and raised in Jiangnan, such as Zhou Shaomei, Liu Tianhua, Hua Yanjun (Ah Bing), Sun Wenming, have made outstanding contributions to the professional development of erhu performance art.

The experts at the meeting focused on the important issues in the fields of playing techniques and styles of Jiangnan erhu, historical figures and classic works, development context and humanistic context, overseas communication and inheritance, Jiangnan art and Shanghai culture, and demonstrated the achievements made by the current music industry in the research of Jiangnan culture.

Shi Zhong, Dean of the School of Music of Shanghai Normal University, pointed out that Duan Ai'ai's Erhu Art Studio, after one year's preparation, has initially formed a series of achievements in the theory and practice of Erhu art, which plays a leading and exemplary role in the discipline construction. The convening of this summit forum will promote the teaching of Erhu and the normal education of musicology in colleges and universities.

During the closing ceremony, Duan Ai'ai, the convener of the forum and visiting professor of the School of Music of Shanghai Normal University, said that Jiangnan, with its good geographical environment, material foundation and spiritual context, has become the foundation and pioneer of erhu art. The art of Jiangnan erhu is worthy of in-depth and systematic study, exploration and interpretation. It is hoped that in the process of promoting the higher quality and integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, the Jiangnan erhu art can obtain more distinctive contemporary value.

The "Jiangnan Erhu Art Inheritance and Research Summit Forum" was sponsored by Shanghai Normal University, undertaken by the School of Music of Shanghai Normal University and Duan Ai'ai's Erhu Art Studio, and funded by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission's College Cultural and Artistic Talent Studio Project.