《空山鸟语》是刘天华创作的十首二胡曲中,唯一与大自然现象直接发生联系的一首。也是作者借景抒情、情景交融尤为出色的一首。此曲大约在1918年前后初稿,1928年定稿发表,前后一共用了十年时间,说明作者对此曲确实是花了很大功夫的。据后人回忆,刘天华创作此曲的灵感,是来自唐代著名诗人王维的两句诗:“空山不见人,但闻人语响”。我们知道,唐代在画论上的最大贡献,就是出现一种以诗咏画,以诗意发挥画意,进而以诗境开拓画境的形式,这就是山水画的形式。虽然山水画起源于魏晋时期,但真正取得较大发展的是在唐代。像大诗人杜甫就作有题画诗18首,而王维也 “Wild Mountain Bird” is the only one of the ten erhu songs written by Liu Tianhua, the only one directly related to the phenomenon of nature. It is also one of the author’s lyricism by scenery, the scene is particularly excellent blend. The song about first draft in about 1918, 1928 final release, before and after a total of ten years, indicating that the author of this song is really spent a lot of effort. According to posterity memories, Liu Tianhua creative inspiration for this song is from the Tang Dynasty famous poet Wang Wei’s two poems: “empty mountain is not seen, but the smell of language ”. We know that the greatest contribution to the theory of painting in the Tang dynasty was the appearance of a form of landscape paintings that used poetic poetry as its poetic meaning and then its poetic environment. Although the landscape paintings originated in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the real development in the Tang Dynasty was achieved. Like the poet Du Fu made a painting of the first 18 poems, and Wang Wei also