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Dong Pipa's Musical Legend

Legend has it that in ancient times, floods were terrible and drowned all mankind. Only two brothers and sisters, Sean and Zhang Mei, sat in the gourd and let them go with the flow, and survived. The two brothers and sisters became husband and wife, thus giving birth to human beings. In memory of their ancestors, their descendant Peng Zu gathered 800 young people to play pipa and sing at the same time. The melody is beautiful and harmonious, which touched the seven fairies in the Heavenly Palace to play the piano and sing every day. Their songs enveloped the whole Dong people, thus teaching the whole Dong family to form such a perfect Dong pipa. ?

Dong people call the songs accompanied by pipa "pipa music". In the vast Dong area, everyone can play the pipa and sing the pipa song. Pipa is a treasure of Dong culture. It is said that there are more than 100 kinds of tunes, which are divided into major and minor. In addition to traditional tunes, pipa is mostly a lyric song praising love, and the lyrics are mostly improvised according to the tunes. Pipa not only accompanied the song, but also plucked the introduction and the introduction. Although this improvisation can be long or short, excellent pipa players can play extremely gorgeous and moving doors and intros. ?