Origin: Pipa Travel by Bai Juyi in Tang Dynasty.
The big string hums like rain, and the small string whispers like a secret. Humming, whispering-and then mixing together, like pouring large and small pearls into a plate of jade.
The big string is long and noisy, like a storm, and the small string is gentle and quiet, like someone whispering. Noise and tangles play alternately, just like a string of big beads falling from a jade plate.
Here, by describing the timbre of the pipa, the author shows the superb playing skills of the pipa girl.
Extended data
Creation background
Through the description of pipa girl's superb playing skills and unfortunate experiences, Pipa Xing reveals some unreasonable phenomena in feudal society, such as bureaucratic corruption, the decline of people's livelihood, and the burying of talents, and expresses the poet's deep sympathy for pipa girl and the poet's resentment at her innocent being demoted.
Brief introduction of the author
Bai Juyi, a native of Xinzheng, Henan Province, was named Lotte,no. Xiangshan layman. 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, Prime Minister Wu was assassinated.
Bai Juyi advocated severely punishing the murderer and was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima for exceeding his authority. He has served as the secretariat of Hangzhou, the secretariat of Suzhou and the minister of punishments. Huichang died in six years, and he was given the right servant of Shangshu, written by posthumous title.
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