Pipa Xing original text

Pipa Xing

[Author] Niu Shu ? [Dynasty] Tang Dynasty

Who? The first time I saw a piece of wood, three feet of spring ice five sound foot. A play breaks the real pearl bag,

bursting off the gold plate sound intermittent. The air is floating in the air and the air is cold, and the bugs and bugs are coming out of their hibernation, and the gods and ghosts are scared.

The autumn hawk calls for a couple of black clouds, and the orangutan cries at night, but the moon is bright.

The green mountains fly up, and the wild water flows in.

The mountain is a great place to be, and it is a great place to be, and it is a great place to be. The yellow warbler is calling out to each other, and the jade tree *** flowers bring rain.

The mountains are heavy where the two consorts are crying, and the clouds are dissolving after the two consorts are gone.

The night is deep with frost and dew locking up the empty temple,

The wind of the scattered clumps of bamboos. The first time I saw it, the grass was green in the garden of the Golden Valley, and Shih Chong made a song about it.

At that time, twenty-four friends, the hands of the golden cup to listen to insufficient.

This is not as good as this tune, which has a new sound, a new sound, a new sound, a new sound, a new sound, a new sound.

They were introduced to the mountains, and the beasts could not walk. The song is a great example of this.

I realize that this is not possible, and that everything on earth is done with both hands.

I have to play it again and again for me,

but I have to give it away to the flowers.

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Translation of Pipa Xing

I don't know who sharpened this pipa with a knife, as rare as three feet of spring ice, and all five tones.

But when it is played, it is as if the bag of real beads is torn, and the real beads burst down into the gold disk with intermittent mellow sounds.

The strings drifted and made a cold sound, the dormant insects woke up, and the gods and ghosts were startled to hear it.

Like the Autumn Hung chirping and shouting, the clouds of the northern Daiji turn black, and like the orangutan crying at night, the moon of the southern barbarian land becomes brighter.

The sound of the bubbles bubbling up is not fixed, and the language is not clear, like the Hu people in the north learning Chinese.

It is like the sound of the drums in Chang'an when the moon eclipses.

Listening to it, you will feel that the green mountains are flying up, but there is no sense of oppression, and it sounds like wild water flowing, a kind of wetting people's feelings.

In the tune, it sounds sadly reminiscent of the Southern Dynasty's Chen Houzhu, who danced in the Spring Palace while half-full of wine, looking at a thin-waisted woman.

It is also like a hundred yellow warblers singing to each other, and there are tears of sadness like rain on the jade tree *** flowers of the Empress Dowager.

Feeling that the two consorts of E Huang and Ying crying at the mountain heavy, E Huang and Ying died after the cloud momentum grand flip.

The night deep frost and dew is very big to E Huang female Ying empty temple sealed, leaving only a clump of bamboo swaying in the wind.

Shi Chong's Golden Valley Garden in the early spring grass color just green, like a section of his homecoming song.

The twenty-four friends of the Golden Valley Garden in those days, and the golden cup in their hands were not enough to listen to.

It is also like a merchant walking along the road of Shu, with a lot of chimes ringing in the empty mountains.

In a short while, this tune is like a deer singing, birds singing, the noise of the crowd, the birds singing.

The sound of the music was heard in the mountains, and the beasts stopped and did not want to go away.

The sound of playing floated to the water, the fish listen to the fascination and forget to swim.

Now I realize that this kind of playing skill is not available elsewhere, and many things on earth are done by a pair of skillful hands.

I'll play a few more songs for you. I'll give you a glass of wine in front of the flowers.

Notes on Pipa Xing

1.? : To cut with a machete, axe, or other tool.

2, Ding Ding: describes the sound of felling wood, playing chess, playing the piano and so on.

3. Autumn Hong: a. Autumn wild geese. It is often used to symbolize parting in ancient texts. b. Guqin music.

4, hu chick: a, hu people small children; hu people boy servant. b, the contemptuous name of hu people.

5, Chen Houzhu: Chen Shubao (553 AD ~ 604 AD), that is, Chen Houzhu, the last emperor of Chen in the Southern Dynasty, the word Yuanxiu, the small word Huangnu. Wuxing Great Wall (now Zhejiang Changxing East) people. He reigned for eight years. He was the eldest son of Chen Xu, Emperor Xuan of Chen. Taijian fourteen years (AD 582) succeeded to the throne, Zhenming three years (AD 589) Sui destroyed Chen, was captured, Sui Renshou four years (AD 604) died of illness in Luoyang.

6, Jade Tree *** flowers: was made by Chen Houzhu. Jade tree *** flowers" is known as "the voice of the dead". Later there was Du Mu's "Parking in the Qinhuai": the smoke covered cold water and the moon covered sand, the night parked in the Qinhuai near the restaurant. The girl does not know the hatred of the dead country, the river is still singing "*** flowers".

7, two consorts: refers to the legendary Shun's wife E Huang, female Ying. After their deaths, they became the gods of Xiangshui.

8, zebra bamboo: a kind of bamboo with purple-brown spots on the stem, also known as Xiangfei bamboo. Jin Zhang Hua Museum Zhi Volume 8: "Yao's two women, Shun's two consorts, said the Xiangfu, the emperor died, the two consorts cried, with snot wave bamboo, bamboo all spots."

9, Jingu Garden: refers to Jin Shi Chong in the Jingu Jian built in the garden. Shi Chong had written a poem of the Jingu preface to remember the event.

10, twenty-four friends: twenty-four people in the Western Jin Dynasty literary group. Pan Yue, Shi Chong, Ouyang Jian, Lu Ji, Lu Yun and other twenty-four people, called 'twenty-four friends."

"Pipa Xing" author Niu Shu introduction

About the Middle Tang later. He was good at writing long songs and lines. Two poems exist in All Tang Poetry, both of which were published in Volume III.34 of Literary Garden Yinghua.

Other works by Niu Shu

○ Fong Rang Song

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