From Bai Juyi's Pipa Trip in the Tang Dynasty, the following is a poem describing the performance of pipa girls:
... she turned the tuning pin and tested several strings, and even before she played, we could feel her feelings. Every string is a kind of meditation, and every note is a kind of deep thinking, as if she were telling us the pain of her life. Keep playing, and let her heart share everything with us bit by bit. She brushes the strings, twists them slowly, sweeps them and plucks them, first "Nishang" and then "Six Yao". Big strings hum like rain, and small strings whisper like secrets. Humming, whispering-and then mixing together, like pouring large and small pearls into a plate of jade. Between Guan Ying's words, the bottom of the flower is slippery, so you can't swallow the spring scenery and flow under the ice. The ice spring is cold and astringent, and the strings condense, and the condensation will never stop. The depth of sadness and the hiding of sadness are more told in silence than in voice. A silver vase suddenly burst, pouring out a stream of water, jumping out of the conflict and blow between armored horses and weapons. Before she put down the pick, her stroke was over, and all four strings made a sound, just like tearing silk. The east ship was silent, and the west ship was silent. We saw the white autumn moon entering the river.
Pipa Xing is one of the long Yuefu poems written by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Eleven years of Yuanhe (8 16). This poem reveals the unreasonable phenomena such as bureaucratic corruption, the decline of people's livelihood and the burying of talents in feudal society by describing the superb playing skills and unfortunate experiences of the pipa girl, expressing the poet's deep sympathy for her and the poet's resentment at her innocent demotion.
About pipa star
In the 10th year of Yuan He's creation (8 15), in June, the forces of the Tang Dynasty sent assassins to stab the prime minister Wu and the imperial minister Pei Du at the head of Chang 'an Street, which caused great controversy in the ruling and opposition circles. The forces of the buffer region further demanded the removal of Pei Du, so as to stabilize the buffer region's "anti-frontier" heart. Bai Juyi advocated severely punishing the murderer, which was suspected of "exceeding authority"; Moreover, Bai Juyi often wrote allegorical poems, which offended the powerful people in the DPRK, so he was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima. Sima is the assistant of the secretariat. In the mid-Tang Dynasty, the placement of "criminal" officials was a disguised distribution. This incident had a great influence on Bai Juyi and was a turning point in his ideological transformation. Since then, his early fighting spirit has gradually worn away and his negative emotions have increased. In the autumn of the 11th year of Yuanhe (AD 8 16), Bai Juyi was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima for two years. He saw off guests in Jiangtou, Xunyang, and met a singer who was abandoned in his youth because of his artistic skills. She was unhappy, and combined with her own travel experience, she wrote this famous Pipa Line (the original Pipa Line Preface) in the form of singing.
Brief introduction of the author
Bai Juyi (772-846) was born in Xinzheng, Henan. Realistic poet in Tang Dynasty. In Zhenyuan, he was a scholar, awarded the secretary of the provincial school book lang, and later moved to be an old man and a doctor who praised Zuo Shan. In the tenth year of Yuanhe (8 15), Prime Minister Wu was assassinated, and Bai Juyi advocated severely punishing the murderer. He was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima for exceeding his authority, and successively served as the secretariat of Hangzhou, the secretariat of Suzhou and the minister of punishments. In the sixth year of Huichang (846), he died and was given the right servant of Shangshu, posthumous title. Bai Juyi is an advocate of the new Yuefu movement. He advocates that "articles should be written in time and poems should be written for things". His poetic language is well known, and he is called "Bai Yuan" with Yuan Zhen and "Bai Liu" with Liu Yuxi. His representative works include Song of Eternal Sorrow, Charcoal Man, Pipa Travel and so on. And Bai Changqing's collection has been passed down from generation to generation. Later generations called it "the poet king" and "the poet demon".