Best Ancient Chinese Music - Pipa Song by Qi Ran & Shen Yuren [Eng Sub]

Описание: Song: Pipa Song / Pipa Xing [ 琵琶行 ]
Singers: Qi Ran & Shen Yuren [ 奇然 & 沈谧仁 ]
Ancient chinese music has a lovely melody and sadness in it's music, one of my favorite kind of music.
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Original:
In 815 I was demoted from the Capital to a local Officer of Jiujiang Prefecture.
One autumn night of the following year, while seeing off friends on a boat leaving Penpu harbor on the Yangtze River, I suddenly heard a pipa tune being played from the neighboring boat.
The music style was clearly from the capital. Being totally surprised, I made an inquiry and learned that the musician was a lady who used to be a famous star in the Capital. She studied the pipa with the great Masters Mu and Cao.
Then her glorious years past with the time as her beauty faded. Finally she had to lower herself to marry to a merchant. I then invited her to my boat, had the table re-set, and asked her to perform for my friends and myself. When the concert ended, I asked her why she was so sad. She told me of her splendid youth and how she lost her fame and lived a life of a merchant¡¯s wife.
I had not myself felt depressed since my own departure from the capital. But after I heard her story, that night, the reality of my own demotion sank in. And I could not help but write for her this "Pipa Song", a long poem of six hundred and sixteen characters
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