Pipa background: Yuanhe ten years, demoted to Sima of Jiujiang County. In the autumn of the following year, I went to Songpukou to see Fujian off. At night, I heard a woman on the neighboring ship playing the lute, carefully examining the sound, which was quite Beijing-like. I asked her about her history. She used to be a musician in Chang 'an. She used to learn pipa skills from famous pipa players Mu and Cao. Later, when she was old, she married a businessman. So I ordered the wine to be set and let her play some music to her heart's content.
After the performance, she looked sad and told the happy past when she was young, but now she is wandering and haggard, wandering between rivers and lakes. I have been a local official for two years, and my mood has always been very peaceful. However, her words touched me, and I felt exiled that night. So I wrote this seven-character song, sang it and gave it to her. A word * * * 6 16, entitled Pipa.
This is a famous masterpiece of realism. The full text takes the characters as clues, not only writing the life experience of the pipa girl, but also writing the poet's feelings, and then meeting in the sentence "We are both unhappy-to the end of the day". The singer's tragic experience is very specific and can be regarded as a bright line; The story it tells is tortuous and touching, and the emotion it expresses can arouse people's voices. The language is beautiful but not flashy, refined but not obscure, the content is close to life and has a wide range of sociality, elegance and popularity.