Tang Xiaofeng's Pipa playing "The Classic of the Pack of the White Horse"

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Tang Xiaofeng's pipa performance of "The Sutra on the Pack of a White Horse" comes from the album "Music Book: Pipa - Tang Xiaofeng".

A golden celestial god came to Mingdi's dream, it was a strange spring night, clothed in sunlight, flying in front of the temple, and vacated to the west. The next day, Taishi Fu Yi interpreted the dream for Emperor Ming, saying that this golden god who could fly with ease was the Buddha from the Western world. Emperor Ming immediately ordered people to go to the Western Regions to learn scriptures. At this time, the four counties of Hexi: Wuwei, Jiuquan, Zhangye, Dunhuang, the key points of the Silk Road have been opened.

Three years later, in the vast wilderness, white horses came to Luoyang from the western regions of Liaoyuan, carrying the "Forty-two Chapter Sutras" and Buddha statues. Soon, a temple was built outside the Dongyong Gate of Luoyang City. Because the scriptures and Buddha statues were carried back by a white horse, the name of the temple was Baima Temple, which is the ancestral courtyard of Buddhism in China. This is the eleventh year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty, about 1,500 years away from us.

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Tang Xiaofeng, Chinese contemporary pipa performer, associate professor of the Department of Folk Music of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, winner of Shanghai May 4th Youth Medal, Shanghai Outstanding Artist, Nominated for Shanghai Cultural New Talent, Director of Pipa Professional Committee of China Musicians Association, Shanghai Musicians Association Deputy Director of Pipa Professional Committee.
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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 It was originally made of silk thread, but now it is mostly made of steel wire, steel rope and nylon.

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