The guqin is a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family. The most widely known sentences of this poem are describing the sound of pipa – the bold strings rattled like splatters of sudden rain, the fine strings hummed like lovers’ whispers, chattering and pattering, pattering and chattering, as pearls, large and small, on a jade plate fall (大弦嘈嘈如急雨，小弦切切如私语，嘈嘈切切错杂弹，大珠小珠落玉盘). It was written by a famous poet called Bai Juyi and it depicted a pipa performance during a chance encounter with a female pipa player on the Yangtze River. From then on, Zhaojun acquired the nickname “fells geese” or “drops birds.” Later, the melody she played on the saddle was regarded as Zhaojun’s Lament (昭君怨) and the stringed instrument was commonly depicted as a pipa.Ī poem called Pipa xing (琵琶行) is also well known in China. A flock of geese flying southward heard the music, saw the beautiful young woman riding the horse, immediately forgot to flap their wings, and fell to the ground. As she sat on the saddle, she began to play sorrowful melodies on a stringed instrument.
She left her hometown on horseback on a bright autumn morning and along the way, the horse neighed, making Zhaojun extremely sad and unable to control her emotions. It is said that Wang Zhaojun began a journey northward to marry a nomad ruler. The most prevalent one is about a beauty called Wang Zhaojun (王昭君). In China, many music and stories are related to this instrument. The pipa is one of the most popular Chinese instruments and has been played for almost two thousand years in China. Sometimes called the Chinese lute, the instrument has a unique pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets ranging from 12 to 26. The pipa is a four-stringed Chinese musical instrument, belonging to the plucked category of instruments.
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