Liu Tianhua's creative works also reflect the feasibility and importance of the idea of combining Chinese and Western culture. The Empty Mountain Bird is obviously ahead of the times in technology and thought, and draws on many new creative means and methods to pursue the ideological content of the work. He greatly explored the expressive force of erhu, introduced new skills, reformed musical instruments and improved notation, which greatly promoted the art of erhu performance. At the same time, he introduced erhu from folk to university lecture halls, founded erhu discipline and advocated standardized teaching, which made great contributions to the inheritance and development of erhu.