There were fewer and fewer cars and horses in front of the door, and finally she married herself to a businessman.

It means "cars and horses in front of the door reduce diners; My youth is gone, so I have to marry a businessman as my wife. " This is the Pipa Trip written by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. These two words are that prostitutes are old and faded, the world is cold, the door is cold, there are fewer and fewer cars and horses, and they have no choice but to become the wife of businessmen. It is sympathetic to describe the bitter life experience of pipa girls in a lyrical style.

This poem reveals the unreasonable phenomena such as bureaucratic corruption, the decline of people's livelihood and the burying of talents in feudal society by describing the superb playing skills and unfortunate experiences of the pipa girl, expressing the poet's deep sympathy for her and the poet's resentment at her innocent demotion.

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Creation background

In June of the 10th year of Yuanhe (8 15), in the Tang Dynasty, the forces of the buffer region sent assassins to stab the Prime Minister Wu and the imperial minister Pei Du at the head of Chang 'an Street. Therefore, 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, Bai Juyi often wrote allegorical poems, which offended the powerful people 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 (AD 8 16), Bai Juyi was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima for two years. He saw off guests in Jiangtou, Xunyang, and met a singer who was abandoned in his youth because of his artistic skills. She was unhappy, and combined with her own travel experience, she wrote this famous Pipa Line (the original Pipa Line Preface) in the form of singing.

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