Since ancient times, Wang Zhaojun in literary and artistic works has always accompanied the pipa. However, Zhaojun, who is commonly seen in modern dramas, paintings, sculptures and other artistic images, is accompanied by a half-pear-shaped pipa that came only four hundred years later than her, which is inconsistent with historical facts. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Ha...

The sweeping technique is the basic playing skill of the pipa. Today, I will introduce the origin of the sweeping technique. 1. Pipa music and playing techniques The musical form based on the "dots" in the pipa constitutes a national musical instrument with "line"-shaped tones expressing musical thoughts and its playing characteristics. Pipa's timbre is very penet...

I still remember that at the beginning of the TV series "Twelve Hours in Chang'an", on the streets of Chang'an, there was a pavilion, and a woman with red makeup was sitting against the window, holding the four-stringed pipa horizontally, plucking the strings with her hands, and the reverberation lingering around the beam for a long time. As soon as the camera turned, in the corner of the...

"Pipa Xing" by Bai Juyi in Tang Dynasty. When the writer was demoted to Sima in Jiangzhou (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi), he came across a former Chang'an famous singer. He heard her play the pipa and described the wandering and desolation after aging and fading. From this, he proclaimed that "the same people from the end of the world, meet each other." Why did you ever know each other?" sighed. The narr...

Pipa is divided into five factions: Wuxi School, Pinghu School, Pudong School, Chongming School, and Wang School. 1. Wuxi School At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Pipa was divided into two schools: the south and the north. The Southern School, namely the Zhejiang School, is represented by Chen Mufu and uses the next round. The music he is good at includes "Hai Qing", "Under Armour",...

In the Tang Dynasty (7th to 9th centuries AD), the development of the pipa reached a peak. At that time, from the court band to the folk singing, the pipa was indispensable, and it became a very popular musical instrument at that time, and it played a leading role in the band. This kind of grand occasion has a lot of records in ancient Chinese poetry. For example, the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi de...

The so-called pipa in history does not only refer to the pipa with a pear-shaped resonance box, but a variety of plucked instruments. That is to say, Pi and Pa were originally the names of two playing techniques. Pi is played forward with the right hand, while Pa is played backward with the right hand. Therefore, the "pipa" at that time were similar in shape and different in size, such as Yueqin, ...