Pipa Xing Original Text and Appreciation

Pipa Xing

Yuanhe ten years, I left to move to Jiujiang County Secretary. In the fall of next year, I sent a guest to the mouth of the Penpu River, and heard the pipa player in the boat at night, and listened to his voice, clanging with the sound of Kyoto. Asked the person, this Chang'an advocate girl, tasted learning pipa in Mu, Cao two good talent, old age, color decline, entrusted to the Jia people's women. The first time I saw her, I was so happy to see her.

The song was pitying, recounting the joys of a few hours, and now, emaciated, migrating between the rivers and lakes. Because of the long sentence, the song to gift, where six hundred and sixteen words, named "Pipa Xing".

Xunyang River night to send guests, maple leaves and dirigible flowers in the fall.

The master dismounted from his horse and the guest was in the boat, and he raised his wine to drink without pipa.

Drunkenness is not a joyful parting, but a parting of a vast river with a moon in it.

The sound of the pipa on the water is heard, and the master forgets to return to the ship.

The first time I heard the sound of the lute was on the water, and the master forgot to return to the house.

The first time I heard the sound of a lute was when the lute was not in use.

The first time I saw you was when I was a young man, and I was a young woman, and I was a young woman.

The first time he came out was when he was holding the pipa, and the second time he was holding the pipa, and the third time he was holding the pipa.

The three or two strings of the axle are plucked, and there is a feeling of love before the tune is written.

The strings are not only a source of frustration, but also a source of frustration.

The newest addition to the list is the newest addition to the list, the newest addition to the list, the newest addition to the list, the newest addition to the list.

The first time I saw the movie, it was a little bit of a joke.

The big strings are as noisy as the rain, and the small strings are like whispers.

Noisy and confused, big pearls and small pearls fall from the jade disk.

The warbler's words are slippery on the bottom of the flower, and it's hard to get down from the ice in the pharynx.

The ice spring is cold and the strings are frozen.

Otherwise, there is a secret sorrow and hatred, but at this time there is no sound than sound.

The first time a bottle of water is broken, the iron rider protrudes from the sword and spear.

At the end of the song, the dial is drawn to the center of the heart, and the four strings sound like cracking silk.

The east boat and the west boat are silent, and the only thing you can see is the white moon in the center of the river.

The song is a very beautiful one, but it's not the same as the song.

The first time I heard this, I said that I was a woman from the capital, and that my family lived under the toadstools.

The pipa is the first of the 13 pipa schools, and it is the first of the workshops.

The first time I saw her was when I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and when I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley.

The first time I saw the lute was when I was a young man, and the first time I saw it was when I was a young woman.

The first year is the next year, and the second year is the next year, and the third year is the next year, and the third year is the next year.

I've been in the army for a long time, but I've never seen the same color.

The oldest man was married to a merchant woman.

The businessman is more interested in profit than in parting, and he went to buy tea at Fu Liang in the month before last.

The boat is empty, and the moon is bright and the river is cold.

The night was deep and I dreamed of my youth, and I cried tears of red.

I heard the pipa already sighed, and then heard the words again chirping.

The first time I saw this was when I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and the second time I saw it was when I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley!

I resigned from the emperor's capital last year, banished to Xunyang City.

Xunyang is a remote place with no music, so I don't hear the sound of silk and bamboo.

The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of a long journey, and I was in the middle of a long journey.

What do you hear at night and day? The first is the sound of the azalea and the blood of the apes.

Do you have a mountain song or a village flute?

The first time I heard this was when I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley.

I've heard you speak on the pipa tonight, and it's like listening to the music of the immortals.

I would like to play one more song for you.

I am very happy to hear your words, but I am very happy to hear your words.

It's not like the sound of the past, but it's like the sound of the future, and you can hear it all over again.

Who wept the most?

The most popular of these is the one who weeps the most in the audience.

Pipa Xing is a long narrative poem written by Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. The narrative and lyricism of the poem are closely integrated, creating a complete and distinctive image of the characters; the language is well-proportioned, beautiful and harmonious, especially the description of the pipa's performance, the simile is apt, and it turns the virtual into the real, presenting a distinctive image of the music.

Through the description of the pipa woman's superb playing skills and her unfortunate experience, it exposes the unreasonable phenomenon of bureaucratic corruption in feudal society, people's livelihoods are withering, and talents are buried, and expresses the poet's deep sympathy for the pipa woman, and expresses the poet's resentment towards his own innocence of being deported.

This is a popular masterpiece of realism, the whole text to the character as a clue, both write the pipa woman's life, but also write the poet's feelings, and then in the "same end of the world," the two sentences on the convergence.

The tragedy of the singer is written in a very specific way, which can be regarded as the bright line; the poet's feelings permeate the lines, with the pipa woman playing the tune and her life changes and waves, which can be regarded as the dark line. This bright line and dark line, the real one and the imaginary one, make the plot rise and fall. It narrates the story twists and turns touching, expresses the emotion can cause people's **** song, language beautiful but not flashy, refined but not obscure, the content close to life and has a broad social, elegant and popular **** appreciation.

Translation of Pipa Xing

In the tenth year of Yuanhe, I was relegated to the position of Secretary of Department of Jiujiang County. The following autumn, to the mouth of the Penpu to see off the guests, heard the neighboring boat there is a woman in the night playing the pipa, carefully examined the sound, clanging quite a bit of the flavor of the capital. I inquired about her history, it turned out to be a Chang'an music play, once with Mu, Cao, the two pipa masters to learn the art, and then old age, married to a merchant as his wife. So I ordered a banquet and invited her to play a few tunes to her heart's content.

When she finished playing, she looked sad and recounted the joyful memories of her youth, but now she is wandering, emaciated, and wandering between the rivers and lakes. I have been a magistrate for two years now, and I have always been in a peaceful state of mind, but her words touched me, and I had the feeling of being banished this evening. So I wrote this seven-character song, chanting some to give her, a **** has six hundred and sixteen words, titled "Pipa Xing".

One night I went to the Xunyang River to see off a guest, and the autumn wind blew the maple leaves and the dirigible flowers.

The master and the guest dismounted and walked on the boat together, and they brought their cups to drink, but there were no strings to cheer them up.

The master and his guests dismounted from their horses and went on board the ship, and there were no strings to play.

The sound of the lute was heard on the river, and the host forgot to return to the guest, and the guest did not want to leave.

I was looking for the source of the sound and asked who was playing the lute.

The sound of the lute stops and you want to answer and a little hesitant.

The boat moved closer and invited her to meet us on the boat, and then we lighted the lights and added more food and wine and then organized a banquet.

After a thousand calls she slowly came out, still holding the lute in her arms to cover half of her face.

Turning the axle of the lute and strumming the strings to try to play two or three times, not yet into the tune of the form of the very sentimental.

The strings of the sad and mournful voice implied contemplation, seems to be telling her life's ambition;

She lowered her head with her hands and played continuously, with the sound of the piano to say all the infinite love affairs in the heart.

Gently caressing and slowly twisting and kneading the lower wipe and upward picking, first played the neon dress and feathers song and then played the six youngest.

The big strings are as noisy as a storm, the small strings are as gentle as a whisper, and the small strings are as quiet as a whisper.

The cacophony of sound is intertwined with the sound of playing, like a string of pearls falling from a jade disk.

The sound of Niko's warbler slipped away from under the flowers, and the water flowed hard under the ice.

As if the water spring cold lute sound began to condense, condensation and not smooth sound gradually stopped.

Like another kind of sadness and hatred secretly grows, at this time muffled and silent but more moving than the sound.

Suddenly it seems like a silver bottle crashed and splashed, and it seems like an iron armor cavalry fighting with swords and guns.

At the end of the song, she aimed at the center of the strings and plucked, and the four strings roared as if they had torn the silk.

The east boat and west boat people are quiet listening, only to see the center of the river is reflected in the white autumn moon.

She put away the plectrum and inserted it into the strings, and straightened her dress to show her solemn face.

She said that the original is the capital of the famous songstress, her hometown in Chang'an city southeast of the toadstools.

Pipa playing skills learned at the age of thirteen, the first team of the orchestra listed in my name.

Every time I played, I was admired by the masters of the art, and every time I made up, I was envied by my fellow courtesans.

Kyoto's rich and powerful children are eager to come and offer their colors, and after playing a song, they receive countless red silk.

The year after year is spent in laughter and jesting, and the good times are wasted in vain.

The family is already in ruins, and I'm getting old and tired.

The carriages in front of the door have been reduced and the customers are few and far between, so I have to marry a merchant as my wife.

The businessman is a man who emphasizes profit, not love, and often parted ways easily, and last month he went to Furlong to do tea business.

He went to leave me alone in the mouth of the river to guard the empty boat, the autumn moon and my companion around the cabin of the autumn water is cold.

Deeper and deeper into the night, I often dreamed of a teenager when I was happy and happy, and I woke up crying in my dream with tears staining my face.

I heard the sobbing lute sound has sighed, and heard her more sorrowful.

Both of us are the disillusioned people of the end of the world, and why should we ask if we have known each other before?

Since last year, I left the prosperous capital of Chang'an, was relegated to live in the Xunyang River often sick.

Xunyang this place is desolate and remote no music, all year round can not hear the sound of the orchestra.

Living in the low-lying and humid place of the Pen River, his house was surrounded by yellow reed and bitter bamboo.

What can be heard here in the morning and evening? It's all about the sad cries of the cuckoos and monkeys.

The spring river flowers towards the autumn river moonlit night such a good scene, but also can not help but often take the wine alone drink alone.

Is there no mountain song and village flute here? The only thing is that the tone is hoarse and coarse, and it's really hard to listen to.

Tonight, when I hear you play the pipa, it's like hearing the music of a fairy, and my eyes are bright and my ears are clear.

Please don't excuse yourself and sit down to play again, I will compose a pipa line for you.

Touched by my words, she stood for a long time, and re-seated herself, and turned the strings of the lute to tune the pitch sharply.

The sound is no longer as poignant as it was a moment ago, and the people in the audience all hid their faces and wept after hearing it again.

Who shed the most tears among the audience? Jiangzhou Secretary's green official robe has been wet.

1, Zuo Qian: demotion, demotion. It is synonymous with "banishment" as mentioned below. In ancient times, the right was honored by the left, so it was called "left relocation" for demotion.

2, clang clang: describes the sound of metal, jade and other percussion. Kyoto sound: refers to the sound of music popular in the capital city of the Tang Dynasty.

3, advocate female: songstress. Advocates, ancient song and dance artists.

4, good talent: the pipa master or the master of the general term. It means "capable".

5, entrusted: to the body, here refers to the meaning of marriage. For: to do. Jia (gǔ) people: merchants.

6.

7, pity: a sad look. The first one is "compassionate silence".

8.

9, out of the official: (Beijing official) out of the transfer.

10, tranquil: the appearance of calm and quiet.

11, move banishment (zhé): demotion or exile.

12, for (wéi): to create. Long lines: refers to seven-character poems.

13, song: to make a song, verb.

14, where: total ****. Six hundred and sixteen: All Tang Poetry, Bai's Changqing Collection are "six hundred and twelve". The word: word.

15, fate: name, title.

16, Xunyang River: according to the evidence, for the flow of water through the Xunyang City in the pen, that is, today's Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province in the Longkai River (has been artificially filled), through the Penpu mouth into the Yangtze River.

17, Ogi (dí) flowers: perennial herbaceous plants, born at the water's edge, long-shaped leaves, like reeds, purple flowers in the fall. 瑟瑟:Describes the sound of maple trees and reeds being blown by the autumn wind.

18, master: the poet refers to himself.

19, back to the light: re-lighting. A "shift light".

20, cover: cover, curb.

20.

21, intention: a "will".

22. The first is to play the game in the same way as the second. The first is to play the song in the same way as the second.

23, 拢: the fingers of the left hand push the strings inward (the middle of the pipa). Twist (niǎn): the same as "twist", the action of vibrating the strings. Wiping: the action of plucking with the downward hand. Picking: the action of plucking back with the opposite hand.

24, Nishang (cháng): the name of the song, that is, the "Neishang Yuyi Qu", originally a Western music and dance, the Tang Kaiyuan years of the Xiliang Festival Minister Yang Jingshu according to the song after the creation of sound into the Central Plains. Sixth: the name of the big song, also known as "Le Shi", "Green Waist", "Record to", for the song and dance. A "green waist".

25, big string: the thickest string on the lute. Cacophony: the sound is heavy and subdued.

26, small string: the thinnest string on the pipa. Che Che: describes the sound of the pipa as urgent and delicate.

27, between off: onomatopoeia, here to describe the sound of "warbling" (bird song).

28, the pharynx: curbed not smooth. Ice under the difficult: spring flow under the ice blocked difficult to pass, describing the sound of music from smooth to cold. Difficult, as opposed to slippery, with the meaning of astringent. A "underwater beach".

29, condensation: stagnation. The first one is "doubtful".

30, the dark hatred: hidden in the heart of the sadness.

31, burst: splash.

32, iron horsemen: cavalry with armor.

33, the end of the song: the end of the music. When the heart draws: use the pluck to cross the four strings in the middle of the lute, a right-hand technique often used at the end of a piece.

34, silk: the ancient general term for silk fabric.

35, boat: a "boat". Boat: boat.

36, see: a "have".

37, convergence: convergence (deep thought of grief and deep resentment) facial expression.

38, shrimp (há) toad mausoleum: in the southeast of Chang'an City, near the Qujiang River, was a famous amusement area. Shrimp, through the "clam".

39, the teaching workshop: the Tang dynasty management of the official office of the court band. The first part: as said the first regiment, the first team.

40, the autumn maiden: the name commonly used in the Tang dynasty song and dance prostitutes. Generally refers to the beautiful and artistic Geisha at that time.

41, five mausoleums: outside Chang'an, referring to the Changling, Anling, Yangling, Maoling, Pingling five Han Dynasty emperor's mausoleums, is the rich and powerful people living at that time. Wrapped head: with brocade and silk and other belongings to the singing and dancing prostitutes. Refers to the ancient reward to the singing and dancing women's wealth gift, the Tang Dynasty with silk, later generations with other property.

42, raw silk: fine and light silk fabric.

42, raw silk: fine and light silk fabric.

43, tin (diàn) head: the two ends of the hair grate filled with flower tin; silver grate (bì): a "cloud grate", decorated with gold and emerald jewels jewelry. Beat: to beat the beat. Originally, wooden or bamboo boards were used to beat the beat during songs and dances.

44, etc.: casually, easily.

45, color is old: the appearance of aging.

46, the oldest: refers to the older.

47, Furiang: ancient county name, Tang belongs to Raozhou, in today's Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province, producing tea.

48, go to come: after parting. Come, tone of voice.

49, dream cry makeup tears: cry in a dream, evenly powdered face with tear marks. A "cry makeup tears fall". The red appendage: tears and powder flow full of face.

50, heavy: again, again. Kiki: sighs.

51, resignation: a "away".

52, the ground is remote: a "small place".

53, the end of the year: the whole year.

54, day and night: morning and evening.

55, vomit and mute: sound word, describing the monotonous sound of music. (zhāo) twitter (zhā): describes the sound of the complicated, also as "twitter".

56, pipa language: pipa sound, pipa music played.

57, temporary: suddenly, all of a sudden.

58, turn: according to the music tune writing lyrics.

59, but sit: to return to the original place. The first is to tighten the strings. It means to prepare to play.

60, forward sound: just played the tone.

61, cover the tears: cover the tears.

62, green shirt: the color of clothing for the eighth and ninth grade civil officials in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi's official rank at that time was General Servant, from the ninth grade, so he wore a green shirt.

Background of Pipa Xing

In June of the 10th year of Emperor Xianzong Yuanhe of the Tang Dynasty (815), the clans of the Tang Dynasty sent assassins to kill Chancellor Wu Yuanheng and injure Peidu, a royal historian, on the streets of Chang'an, and there was a great uproar in the court, and the clans of the Tang Dynasty further demanded the dismissal of Peidu, so that the clans of the Tang Dynasty could be assured of the heart of the clans of the "opposite side". Bai Juyi's petition for the arrest of the murderer was suspected of "overstepping the bounds of his duty", and he also made a lot of satirical poems, which offended the nobles and powerful people in the court, so he was relegated to the post of Secretary of Jiangzhou.

Suma was the assistant to the assassin, and in the Middle Tang Dynasty, it was often used to house "criminal" officials, which was a disguised form of deportation. This incident had a great impact on Bai Juyi, and was a turning point in his ideological change; from then on, his early vigor for struggle gradually wore off, and his negativity grew. Yuan and eleven years (816) in the fall, Bai Juyi in the Xunyang River to send off guests, met a lute playing Chang'an advocate of the female, will be used as a theme, created this narrative poem "Pipa Xing".