Pipa Pavilion

On an autumn night in the 11th year of the Yuanhe reign of the Tang Dynasty (816), Bai Juyi, the military governor of Jiangzhou, was Complimentary at the Xunyang River when he suddenly heard the sound of a pipa from a neighboring boat, which moved his heart. He moved his boat to meet her, and found that she was a singing girl from the capital. Bai Juyi prepared wine and food again, and asked the woman to play a song again to listen to her wonderful music. While she was telling his life story, he learned that the singing girl "married a merchant when she was old" and "went back and forth to guard an empty boat at the mouth of the river." Bai Juyi associated the unfortunate life story of the pipa girl with his own rough experience, and he was overwhelmed with emotions, and sighed, "We are both people who have fallen into the world, why do we have to know each other when we meet?" He wrote a poem based on his emotions, and wrote the eternal masterpiece "Pipa Xing".

In order to commemorate the poet, the people of Jiangzhou built the Pipa Pavilion at the place where he "Complimentary at night at the head of Xunyang River". For more than a thousand years, the Pipa Pavilion was repeatedly built and destroyed. It was rebuilt in the spring of 1988. The rebuilt Pipa Pavilion is located on the east side of Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge, covering an area of ​​3,300 square meters. It is an imitation Tang garden building. The main building, the Pipa Pavilion, is located on a granite foundation more than two meters high. The pavilion is hexagonal and double-layered, with green tiles and red columns, upturned corners and double eaves, and is surrounded by white stone railings, giving people a sense of dignity and stability. The huge plaque with three golden characters "Pipa Pavilion" was written by contemporary art master Liu Haisu. On the pillars is a couplet by Dong Yunyan, a literati in the Qing Dynasty: "One shot of flowing water and one shot of the moon, half in the river and half in the clouds", which integrates the sound of water, wind, river and sky, clouds, and late moon around the Pipa Pavilion. There are paintings in the couplet, which is thought-provoking. The pavilion exhibits Bai Juyi's poems and pictures of his whereabouts in Jiangzhou. On the base is a 3-meter-high white marble statue of Bai Juyi. The poet nods his head in deep thought, looking elegant. The stele corridors on both sides of the Pipa Pavilion are inlaid with poems and essays written by many literati since the Tang Dynasty to commemorate the ancient Pipa Pavilion.