Chongqing Youth Plucked Orchestra Pipa Night Concert: Young people from all over Chongqing gather, pipa sounds echoed by the Jialing River

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On the evening of August 17, Chongqing Youth Plucked Orchestra held a unique pipa night concert in Jiangtan Park on Beibin Road. Several students from Chongqing, Henan, Sichuan and other places joined hands with the teachers on stage to perform a number of classic pipa songs and modern works. They will be full of enthusiasm and sincere feelings into beautiful notes, across thousands of mountains and rivers, gathered into a song of praise to the motherland.

Chongqing Youth Plucked Orchestra Pipa Night Concert: Young people from all over Chongqing gather, pipa sounds echoed by the Jialing River

The lute plays gently, and the melodious melody blends into the gorgeous night scenery of Chongqing. A song "China in the Light" in Hongya Cave lights up slowly sounded, as if the entire Chinese family lights bright moment condensed in this corner of the mountain city. Mr. Xiao from Sichuan resonated with the passionate music and couldn't help but take out his mobile phone to record the moving moment, "It is really very moving to hear the pipa playing in this form. In the music and bustling night scene, I can't help but feel for the good life now." Xiao also said that he hopes that after the trip, the children in his family will also have access to traditional Chinese Musical Instruments and carry forward Chinese culture.

At the end of the pipa song, the lingering sound is curling up, and everyone is intoxicated with the distant melody. As one of the organizers of the event, Ye Minmin, deputy secretary general and permanent director of Chongqing Pipa Special Committee, said that the children gathered in Chongqing during the holiday to express their love for the motherland and hometown in such a way, hoping that this platform can become a stage for them to promote in-depth exchanges and show their style, and hope that they can work together. The charm of the pipa, a traditional musical instrument, is widely carried forward.

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Pipa (pinyin: pí pa), the first plucked instrument, is a traditional plucked instrument in East Asia, a plucked stringed musical instrument. Made of wood or bamboo, the speaker is half-pear-shaped and has four strings on the top. It was originally made of silk thread, but now it is mostly made of steel wire, steel rope and nylon.

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