1, "Pipa for a new sound" depicts the pipa girl dancing with the rhythm of music and playing new songs happily. This shows that the pipa girl is very skilled and can easily adapt to various styles and melodies. Still hiding half a face behind her guitar from us describes a very vivid scene. The pipa girl holds the pipa, but only half a face is exposed. This image not only shows her shyness and introversion.
2. This poem can also be understood as the pipa girl is not confident in her talent and appearance, and covers her face with a pipa to cover up her inner inferiority. This emotion is different from the previous "... she turned the tuning pin and tested several strings. We can feel her feelings even before she played, and show the inner world and emotional changes of the pipa girl.
3. In Pipa Xing, Bai Juyi vividly depicts the pipa girl's skill and emotional world through the combination of music and poetry. The whole poem uses rich metaphors and image descriptions, showing Bai Juyi's profound literary skills and keen sense of music.
The origin of pipa
1, Pipa, a traditional plucked instrument in China, can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period in China over 2000 BC. There are different opinions about the origin of pipa, among which the most common and widely accepted one is that pipa evolved from "Pipa". The name "Paiba" was first seen in Liu Xi's Ming Shi. The original meaning of Paiba refers to the technique of playing pipa, with Paiba on the left and Ba on the right.
2. In ancient times, there were two forms of playing pipa: horizontal grip and vertical grip, and "batch grip" was the technique of holding pipa horizontally. With the passage of time, the name "Pipa" was gradually omitted, and people began to call this instrument "Pipa". In addition to the origin of "Pipa", there is another saying that Pipa is closely related to Zheng.
3. Zheng has been widely popular in Qin dynasty, and the predecessor of pipa may be a straight-handled plucked instrument widely popular in Qin and Han dynasties. According to the historical book Yue Ji of Sui and Tang Dynasties, Zheng Ming in Qin and Han Dynasties may be the earliest pipa in China. In the development of pipa, the Han and Wei Dynasties is an important period for the development of pipa art.