Pipa is a very traditional musical instrument in my country. Pipa can be found in many of our literary works and unearthed cultural relics. Until today, for many friends who learn musical instruments, Pipa is also one of the most popular music in folk music. an important instrument.
And the pipa we are going to talk about next is an indelible regret or unwillingness in the hearts of our people. This is the Luodian red sandalwood five-string pipa, a cultural relic from the Tang Dynasty in my country, and the only pipa with five strings left in the world.

This pipa was originally a special musical instrument in the imperial palace in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, but for some unknown reason, it was passed down to Japan during that historical period, and has been well preserved until now as a national treasure of Japan. Qinghui personally thinks that it may have a lot to do with some cultural exchanges between my country and Japan at that time (such as things like Jianzhen's eastward crossing), after all, at that time, the Tang Dynasty was a kingdom of heaven for Japan. General existence, many technical arts and objects have been passed down to Japan, which naturally includes some musical instruments.

At that time, Emperor Shomu of Japan loved this five-stringed lute so much that he carefully preserved it. After the death of Emperor Shomu, this five-stringed lute has been kept in Shoso-in, Nara, Japan for collection. It has become a sacred object in Japan, and for us, this five-stringed pipa has gradually declined since the end of the Tang Dynasty, and it has become extinct.

So for us today, if we want to see what the five-stringed pipa in ancient my country looked like, in addition to the Japanese five-stringed pipa, we can only look at the Tang Dynasty in the murals in Dunhuang. It looks like the five-stringed lute in the painting. Among the frescoes left in the Tang Dynasty, the pipa held by the goddess of the sky is the five-string pipa. It is said that it can play the sound of the sky and go around the beam for three days, which is extremely shocking.

Later, our country also built another one specially modeled on the five-stringed pipa, but after all, it is only an imitation and cannot replace the treasure. But it also more or less made up for some of the regrets in our hearts. However, although this five-stringed pipa is in Japan, strictly speaking, it is very different from the cultural relics they looted through war, because we have mentioned earlier that this pipa was in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. , it has already spread to Japan, and it can be regarded as a witness of cultural exchange. Although it is indeed a cultural relic of the Tang Dynasty in my country, it is also an extremely precious treasure in the process of their cultural history for Japan. If it were not so, they would not display this five-stringed pipa as their national treasure. and careful collection.