On The Culture Of Pipa

On the Culture of Pipa" tries to make an overall discussion of the place , the origin, the connotation and the aesthetic psychology of the culture of Chinese lute (Pipa) and of its music by the way of the national music study .In the first chapter , the author thinks that Chinese Pipa is a lute of a kind of long-neck lutes of stringed instruments of chordophophone category, Its main characters are to ring by strings and to play by bo with Xiang and Pin .In the second chapter , the author discusses the cultural origin of Chinese Pipa starting with its name , shape and making , the playing posture and the way to play . She makes conclusions that Pipa appeared in Qin and Han Dynasty first and then the foreign bent lute conies and that the modem Chinese Pipa is remade by the connection with Chinese and abroad .In the third chapter, the author discusses the cultural connotation of Chinese Pipa from the accumulations of period , region and schools.In the forth chapter, the author thinks that the cultural aesthetic psychology of Chinese Pipa has the main characters of the taste to both intelleturals and ordinary audience , of the pursuit of literature topic and programme music in the music and of the effective limited application of noise the playing skills.