The Origin of Pipa Prosperity —— Tang Dynasty: Bai Juyi
Of course, there are folk songs and bagpipes in the village, but they are rough and harsh, and they are harsh in my ears.
Tonight, when I heard you playing the guitar, I felt that my hearing was illuminated by wonderful music.
Don't leave us. Come, sit down. Play it for us again. Translate the travel notes of pipa for you.
... she was moved by my words, stood there for a while, and then sat down to play her strings-they sounded even sadder.
Although the tune was different from what she had played before, all the listeners covered their faces.
But which of them cried the most? ? This Jiujiang official. My blue sleeves are wet.
Are there no folk songs and village flutes here? It's just hoarse and harsh. Listening to the music you play with the pipa tonight is like listening to the fairy sound in the sky, and my ears suddenly become open. Please don't refuse to sit down and play another song. I want to write a new poem "Pipa" for you.
Moved by my words, she stood for a long time, turned and sat down, and then tightened the strings to dial an urgent tone. It's so sad, it's not as monotonous as when it was first played. People here are hard of hearing and have been crying. Which of you shed the most tears? My tears of Jiangzhou Sima soaked my blue skirt!
Extended data
1, the creative background of Pipaxing
Pipaxing was written on 8 16 (the eleventh year of Yuanhe), and it is a seven-character ancient poem. Seeing the guests off in Jiangtou, Xunyang, I met a singer who was abandoned in his later years because of his profound artistic skills. She was unhappy, and combined with her own experience in the journey, she created this famous pipa with singing as the genre.
2. Appreciation of Pipa Xing
The author reveals his self-image in the emotional waves aroused by the fate of the pipa girl. A year ago, I left the capital to come here, and now I am a sick exile here in Jiujiang. The "I" in the book is the author himself. The author suffered a blow because he wanted to get rid of tyranny and practice benevolent government. He was demoted from Chang 'an to Jiujiang, and his mood was very painful. When the pipa girl played sad music for the first time and expressed her thoughts, she had already resonated with him and gave a deep sigh.
3. Introduction to the author of Pipa Xing
Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, diverse forms and simple and popular language, and are known as "the poet's magic" and "the king of poets". Official to Hanlin bachelor, Zuo Zanshan doctor. In 846 AD, Bai Juyi died in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan. Up to now, there are Bai's "Changqing Collection", and the representative works include Song of Eternal Sorrow, Charcoal Man, Pipa Travel and so on.
Pipa Xing and Song of Eternal Sorrow are Bai Juyi's most successful works, and the outstanding feature of their artistic expression is the strengthening of lyric factors. Compared with the previous narrative poems, although these two works also use narrative and description to express events, they can no longer simplify the events and only use a central event and two or three main characters to structure the whole article.
Pipa Travel, a work with more ink on the description of music and characters' experiences, also closely connects sounds and events with emotions. Sounds move with emotions, and emotions move with emotions, so that the process of poetry is always accompanied by touching emotional power. In addition, the lyricism of these two works is also manifested in creating an appropriate atmosphere and setting off the artistic conception of poetry with selected images.