Erhu - A Spray of Flower 一枝花

[maddiluvsJohnnyDepp]

beautiful, I think this is on The Sims 3. :P

[BentleyLeung]

好個一枝花,真是越聽越有味道.看得出于紅梅拉奏這首曲信心十足­,音色飽滿,一氣呵成,完全沒有半點雜音,真是完美之作.

[bortomatcha]

very nice:D

[A1F9S8B6]

She handled the opening cadenza very well. The best I have heard on Youtube. :)

[Jupitroid]

As a guy I must say that I think she's amazingly beautiful, but I'd love this music even if she were an ugly old man!

[DevonWalters1]

i want to learn how to play the erhu x i cant find any teachers in this country :(

[BigErik1984]

Kinda makes you wonder, what crazy bastard came up with the idea for bow instruments.

[cartoonangel1]

Want to learn Erhu- is such a wonderful instrument

[PingChongErhu]

Great! Love this song and the player!

Can't wait to learn it!

[edydy79]

I'm a fan of this instrument and the performer is awesome ! Where Can I download mp3 of her performance

[crazedNdiffused]

What amazing instruments

[sonoacqua]

beautiful, elegant musician and lovely music....thanks for posting:) best wishes from Poland:) erhu is unknown here....so pitty:)

[ZionNeo1]

a SPRAY of FLOWER!???!?!?! LOL think about it

[david1234lee]

Also, look at 5.48 and you will see clearly no fake lashes.

[videogaga999]

She's really pretty. Wonder if those are natural eye lashes :]

[david1234lee]

@videogaga999

I say they are real. She s a professor at Beijng Chinese Music Insititution, well known for her unpretentious beauty and music skills and natural way to nurish her beauty!

[videogaga999]

@david1234lee Wow that's really rare..

[david1234lee]

@videogaga999

Another reason: Chinese women rarely wear artificial eye lashes which are common for western counterparts.

[911sxychik]

@david1234lee It's not only Chinese women; I'm from South Africa, and my eyelashes are so naturally long, that all I have to do to make them look artificial is adding a bit of mascara.

[bee25678]

她拉的感情是很深沉的!

令人想落淚!

[Doleafol]

Wow...the way the fingers on her left hand unulates, twist, and bend as she squeezes the erhu strings is a sight to behold. The movements are so graceful and emotive. One could turn off the sound and just watch her movements.

[rabbitspliff]

haha, true, but one could also not watch the video whilst doing other things and enjoy the sound... or, one could watch it with sound on and enjoy both aspects!

ahh, i love music.

[FeatherShard]

No doubt, seeing her play is no less beautiful than hearing her. You can even see the music in her eyes as she allows it to flow into her from whatever place her mind goes to find it when she plays.

[grttsoi0505]

於紅梅小姐在9歲時已在全國比賽取得冠軍,得獎歌曲正是這首:一­枝花!

[AwelStaw]

wonderful performance!

[MrGameposter]

I must know: who composed this?

[kwwkwwkww]

Zhang Shiye 张式业 recomposed this according to the traditional folk music of the Shandong Province in 1982.

[THATASIAGIRL1400]

im gonna learn ho to play a erhu^^

well..someday..>.>"

[blurfist]

i hope she can play my erhu one day

[Coolypan22]

Talented women are always prettier. I really respect talented people... especially pretty ones ;)

[david1234lee]

Please just listen to her music and leave her beauty alone for more mature people such as, well, myself.

[FeatherShard]

I'll grant you that the focus ought to be on the music, but to ignore beauty such as hers would border on criminal.

[david1234lee]

I agree! She is so beautiful and her music so enchanting that I listen to her daily and feel very happafterwards. I was in Beijing, trying to speak t her but she was not in.

[david1234lee]

"Talented women" are always prettier"! That is true because talents create radiance!

[lolguy00]

ohhh yeah, thats SO true.

[asgore]

Is she chinese?

[kwwkwwkww]

yes, she is chinese.

[david1234lee]

Prevailing harmony and peace!

Sweet Yu Hung-mei !

[pohliongpeng]

god gift, such a refined musician n music

[haaklung]

Beautiful music!!!

[AndarutCazw]

于红梅太漂亮了！！！ 真十分漂亮的！！！

[Hootowl54]

Wonderful cultural music. What is that other instrument called?

[darkmillenium0000]

its a hammered dulcimer ''yangqin''

[FutureFrontLA]

8:10 HOLY CRAP!

[juglarlocogmail]

Yu Hongmei you are the most beautiful flower

[alra1975]

Nothing can sound like this.... Western instruments are totally eclipsed by Chinese traditional ones, like Pipa Bamboo flute and Erhu...

[david1234lee]

We have been civilized for more than 5,000 years; most western civilizations are only half as long as ours. It is a cultural thing.

[TurboRonin83]

@alra1975 It's a matter of taste. I like both but I prefer the Classical Western composers. To each his own, I guess.

[quantumdude]

@alra1975 yeah yeah mr chinaman...you THINK youre better than everybody...well youre not.

[chewyn123]

Sounds very much like the persian santoor wich i think it is

similarities with classic persian music

oh just bootifull :)

[david1234lee]

Heavenly music; sweeter China lass!

[david1234lee]

Suddenly, Chinese women are irresistable!

[chewyn123]

The beauty of music brings love and happiness

[david1234lee]

Good music creates and recreates; soothes and guides the heart for the better part of humanity.

Miss Yu hung-mei does that!

[fleurjaune345]

Beautiful. The music was very mezmorizing.

[david1234lee]

As I always said, find a wife in China! These girls have talents, style and beauty!

[david1234lee]

A nation's music, whether in the forms of opera, songs or instruments, happens to be part of its culture. Samples are a subsets to sample space. Just this simple but hard to see, at times! Thank you!

[david1234lee]

Saw the red Mei flower (plum) behind her and her being in red; this song is pretty autobiographic to Miss Yu hung Mei! She is the flower herself!

Lovely but intrinsic and meditative! She is a pretty mature woman!

[njinjing]

clap clap clap!

[naniekso]

nm the Guzheng

[Dragoonat]

its a yangqin

[songofgod]

Who is the Ehru soloist? She's quite a performer!

[ajamesu]

Read the description: "Performed by Yu Hongmei."

[bimuyux]

In a Chinese melody revealed the tenacity of the simple farmers

[Artidee]

Are the hairs of the bow on the 'inner side' of the erhu's strings? :o

[Animedith]

yep

[dreamingWisdom]

Coolio

[whatleymattu]

i really like this one , they should put this one on a soundtrack or something.

[whatleymattu]

the erhu is a chinese violen. what is that thing on the right ? is that a chinese zylaphone

[njinjing]

it's not a chinese zylophone. it's kind of like a piano (of course not in the looks and the way you play it), only you can't stop the sound from floating everywhere once you play unless you press your hands/fingers on the strings.

[whatleymattu]

r u trying to say it reverbirates ?

[njinjing]

yeah! I didn't know the word.. lol :P

[naniekso]

its the persian santoor

[aaroncurley]

by the way, what is the name of this piece in simplified chinese.

[kwwkwwkww]

the simplified chinese name is called 一枝花.

[aaroncurley]

The music is great. but i think it would be better using guzheng instead of yangqin.

[virgoknots]

she's something

special

that's a fact

[34thshaolinstudent]

What a fantasyst @ HorrorKungFuKid. First, you learned Chinese Kungfu and now, YOU want a chinese woman... what a big dreamer. Laugh.

[HorrorKungFuKid]

i like chinese women so talented so smart and soooo! hot!!!!

[clroger]

Wow! So great! This is my favorite Chinese folk music. The music and player are both beautiful!

[cacalacapoo]

So graceful, again, thanks for the upload.