After graduation, she went to Beijing to train under Liu Mingyuan and Lan Yusong, two northern masters of erhu.

[3] In 1963, she won the national prize at the Shanghai Spring Arts Festival, and was subsequently recognized as the undisputed master of erhu for more than 50 years until her death.

After attending her performance in 1973, American music critic Harold Schonberg called her the "Heifetz of erhu".

[1] She composed several of her hit singles herself, including "Yangguan Melody – Three Variations" and "Wishes of the People of Honghu Lake.

It was inspired by a huge tapestry of the Great Wall that Liu and Min saw during their visit to the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York in 1978.

[2][3] In 1981, Min was diagnosed with cancer, and underwent six major operations and fifteen courses of chemotherapy in the next five years.