By describing the beautiful woman playing pipa in the attic, she expressed her nostalgia for the lost love and time. With its unique artistic expression and profound connotation, this poem has become a classic of narrative poetry in the Tang Dynasty. Through the description of pipa, the author expresses his endless yearning for lost love and feelings for time. Taking the pipa sound as a clue, the whole poem tells the love story of a beautiful woman, which causes readers to think deeply about love and time.
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Pipa Travel is a long narrative poem by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. By describing the superb playing skills and unfortunate life experiences of the geisha pipa girl, this poem reveals the unreasonable phenomena such as bureaucratic corruption, the decline of people's livelihood and the burying of talents in feudal society, expresses the poet's deep sympathy for the pipa girl, and also expresses the poet's resentment at his innocent being demoted.
The narrative and lyric of the whole poem are closely combined to create a complete and distinctive character image; The language flow is symmetrical, beautiful and harmonious, especially the description of pipa performance, which is clever in metaphor, turns virtual into reality and presents a distinct musical image.
Creative background:
In the 10th year of Yuanhe (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 an uproar in the ruling and opposition parties. 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 the strict arrest of murderers, was suspected of "exceeding his authority", and often wrote allegorical poems, which offended the dignitaries 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 (8 16), Bai Juyi saw a guest off in Jiangtou, Xunyang, and met an Chang 'an geisha who played pipa, so he wrote this narrative poem Pipa.