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.
Creation background Yuan and ten years (8 15) in June, the forces of the Tang Dynasty sent assassins to stab the Prime Minister Wu and the imperial envoy Pei Du at the head of Chang 'an Street, causing 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 severely punishing the murderer, which was suspected of "exceeding authority".
Moreover, he 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.
Overall appreciation of pipa;
The content of Pipa Music, as stated in the preface, tells the story of the author's relegation from Chang 'an to Jiujiang, listening to An Chang 'an playing pipa and telling his life story. As a long narrative poem, this poem is rigorous and meticulous in structure, with twists and turns in plot and ups and downs.
This is a famous masterpiece of realism. The full text takes the characters as clues, not only writing the life experience of the pipa girl, but also writing the poet's feelings, and then meeting in the sentence "We are both unhappy-to the end of the day". The singer's tragic experience is very specific and can be regarded as a bright line.
The poet's feelings permeate between the lines, and with the constant changes of the music played by the pipa girl and her life experience, it can be regarded as a dark line. This one is bright and dark, one is real and one is empty, which makes the plot ups and downs. The story it tells is tortuous and touching, and the emotion it expresses can arouse people's voices. The language is beautiful but not flashy, refined but not obscure, the content is close to life and has a wide range of sociality, elegance and popularity.