"Silence is better than sound at this time" describes the pipa playing reaching a very profound artistic conception. In fact, combined with the full text, it describes a kind of resentment and deep longing when the feelings reach the boiling point, without any Language or music can be described vividly, leaving only a blank space for people to savor.
Source: Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing"; original sentence: Don't be sad and hateful. Silence is better than sound at this time.
The original work of "Pipa Xing" is "Pipa Yin", selected from "Bai's Changqing Collection". Xing, also called "Ge Xing", originated from the Yuefu of Han and Wei Dynasties and is one of its famous songs. The text is long, the sentence pattern is flexible, the rhyme is informal, the rhyme used is varied, and the rhyme can be changed many times. Ge, Xing and Yin (as well as Qu, Yin, Ballad, etc.) were originally three forms of ancient songs. They originated from Yuefu in the Han and Wei dynasties and were one of the names of Yuefu music. Later, they became a genre in ancient poetry.
In July of the 10th year of Yuanhe (815), the author was slandered and demoted to the Sima of Jiangzhou (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi) for submitting a letter to arrest the assassin of Prime Minister Wu Yuanheng. In the autumn of the next year, while seeing off guests by the Xunyang River, in the boat I heard the exquisite pipa playing of a pipa girl who claimed to be a merchant woman from Chang'an. There is order before the poem.
The poem not only delicately and vividly describes the bleak life experience of the Pipa girl, her exiled life, and the sympathy caused by the same illness, but also vividly describes the ups and downs and ever-changing sounds of the pipa, with wonderful metaphors like pearls. , aphorisms come out one after another, making people feel overwhelmed. The whole poem is carefully composed, and the narrative, description, lyricism and discussion complement each other, making it appear graceful, lingering and pathos, with a strong artistic appeal.