Pipa (China Lute) Music And Its Cultural Inner Intension

Pipa is a Chinese ancient and excellent folk musical instrument, can show endless artistic charm by its rich playing skill and music expressive force, which makes Pipa music an important integral part in Chinese folk music and contains rich cultural inner intension.The tone of Pipa is very beautiful with both clear-cut grain-like sound and rich song-like music style. The Pipa music is soft and rigid as well, is of the characters of softness in rigidity and rigidity in softness and a combination of inflexibility and yielding. As a plucked stringed musical instrument, Pipa music is of melody character and for expresses the melody lines by dots in performance. Also Pipa music shows richness and variety, and Pipa is a representative one in Chinese folk instruments by its rich playing skill, various music themes, and unique lingering charm and artistic style.Pipa music contains rich cultural intension. Lasting for two thousand years, Pipa itself bears so many music culture of human beings, wisdom and idea of musicians. Years of years of musicians'painstaking care on Pipa music leaves many excellent Pipa musical compositions, which become important cultural inheritance in artist treasure house of Chinese folk music. Nearly each traditional Pipa music contains rich cultural intension in traditional Pipa music. From ancient years, the love and attention paid by literary men makes Pipa music contain cultural nature of literary men's music. On the other hand, the popularization and spreading among people make the Pipa music of the characters of common customs and folk music. So Pipa becomes an instrument suitable for both refined and popular taste and of many natures.The text is to expose the cultural intension of Pipa to give a restricted view on natural characters of Chinese folk music by description of Pipa and its musical characters.