Ming Jiang ZHU has won the most honorary medal at the prestigious contest, hosted by the Violin Society of America every two years.
Violin makers around the world normally dream of being awarded the medal which Ming Jiang ZHU won two times.
Since the workshop was founded in 1991, master ZHU has won the 21 VSA Awards
which included 2 gold and 2 silver until his death in 2014.

In 2014, Ming-Jiang Zhu was posthumously conferred the national title "Master of Chinese Violin Making" by the China National Light Industry Council, recognizing his lifetime contribution to the craft.

Wei-Xian Zhu is Ming-Jiang Zhu's first cousin (paternal cousin, 堂弟 in Chinese — son of his father's brother), as well as his favorite student who had joined the work for 30 years and is now leading master Zhu's followers. Moreover, by receiving the Certificate of Merit at the VSA competitions in 2010 and 2014, Wei Xian Zhu proved that he had taken over the honor from Master Ming-Jiang Zhu.