Playing Pipa on the Xunyang River on the Moon

In the tenth year of Yuanhe, Bai Juyi was demoted to Jiangzhou. One autumn night, while seeing off guests at the head of the Xunyang River, he heard the sound of a pipa and invited a woman playing the pipa to meet him. She was once the leader of Chang'an Jiaofang, famous in Beijing; during the Anshi Rebellion, she wandered around the world, married as a merchant's wife, and guarded the empty ship alone. At the end of the song, everyone in the audience was in tears. Bai Juyi wrote "Pipa Xing". From then on, the fate of the two people was closely intertwined. The novel uses Bai Juyi's poems as its bones and the fate of the pipa girl Qiu Yanluo as its flesh and blood, unfolding a large picture from the prosperity of the Middle Tang Dynasty to its decline. From the song stage and dance pavilion in Pingkangfang, Chang'an, to the war smoke of the Anshi Rebellion; from the cold moon reed flowers at the head of the Xunyang River, to the banyan tree shade of the ruined temple in the Miasma Township of Lingnan - two people abandoned by the times, struggling in their own mud, unexpectedly became each other's salvation. She thought she could only survive in this life, and he thought he would never be able to write a poem again in this life. But when the sound of the piano meets the verses, springs gush out of the dry well, and the ashes of the dead rekindle into flames. They set up a music studio to teach orphans to play the piano, met and separated again and again on the road to relegation, and protected each other in the strife in the court. This writing takes fifteen years; this journey goes from black hair to gray hair. This is a story about a close friend - not just a close friend between a piano and a poem, but also the light of two souls recognizing each other in the darkness. This is a story about perseverance - beautiful things can be destroyed, but they cannot be eliminated. This is also a story about affection - when a person is more important than poetry, the poet's pen can truly find its home. We are both fallen people at the end of the world, so why should we have known each other before.