pipa

Interpretation: Ming stringed instrument, made of wood, has four strings, the body is melon-seed-shaped, the upper part has a long handle, and the handle end is bent backwards.

Make sentences:

1) The gatekeeper widened his eyes in surprise and ran to the king. He reported, "There is a Xiao Lv sitting outside the door, playing the pipa as well as a musician.

2) Playing the pipa on the back makes the fairy sound beautiful.

Origin of pipa:

The so-called pipa in history not only refers to the musical pipa with a pear-shaped sounding box, but also refers to a variety of plucked instruments, whose names "Pi" and "Pa" are based on the right-handed techniques of playing these instruments. That is to say, the pipa and the arpeggio are the names of two playing techniques. The pipa is played forward by the right hand and the arpeggio is picked backward by the right hand. Therefore, the "pipa" at that time was similar in shape and different in size, such as yueqin and Ruan, which could all be said to be pipa instruments. Pipa is the main plucked instrument with a long history in China. After the improvement of the performers, the shape has become unified, and it has become a four-string pipa with six phases and twenty-four products. Pipa has a wide range, its playing skills are the first of national instrumental music, and its expressive force is the most abundant instrument in folk music. When playing, each finger of the left hand presses the string at the corresponding grade, and the right hand wears a fake nails plucked string made of celluloid (or tortoise shell) and other materials for pronunciation.

Around the Qin Dynasty, a round musical instrument with a long handle began to circulate. Because there are two main ways to play: to pop it forward and call it "batch", and to pick it up and call it "ba", people call it "batch ba". Later, in order to unify the writing with the instruments such as Qin and Qin at that time, it was renamed Pipa.