Our Chinese history and culture is really broad and profound, no wonder countless foreigners envy us, such as tea culture, porcelain culture, bronze culture, musical instrument culture, today we will talk about a very forked musical instrument, this instrument is absolutely a unique product, but unfortunately this instrument is not collected in our country's museum, but is collected in Japan, for this reason experts also bluntly said that it is impossible to get it back.
Do you know what instrument was played with that very bullish "Ten Faces Ambush"? Yes, it is the pipa, which can be said to be a very old instrument in China and is also recognized as one of the most difficult instruments to learn, but strictly speaking, the pipa is not a 100% pure Chinese instrument, and it also has many foreign bloods.
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, a four-stringed musical instrument was passed down in the Western Regions, and then a "Hu Pipa" was transmitted in Central Asia, and finally we combined it perfectly, that is, the pipa we see in modern times.
Are the lutes you see now all four strings? In fact, this is indeed the case, but in fact, there is a five-string lute in this world, and it is an absolute orphan product, it is the "spiral rosewood five-string pipa".
Seeing the name of this "spiral rosewood five-string pipa", you will feel very unsimple, and the fact is that it is very not simple, and very valuable, absolute national treasure, but this "spiral rosewood five-string pipa" is not collected in our country, but is stored in the north courtyard of the Imperial Household Agency Shosoin in Japan.
In fact, the "spiral rosewood five-string pipa" is a royal object from the court during the Tang Dynasty, so how did it spread to Japan? It is reported that it was because of the chaotic period of the Tang Dynasty that it was accidentally brought to Japan, and the "spiral rosewood five-string pipa" became the beloved object of Emperor Shengwu of Japan, and it was not until after the death of Emperor Shengwu that this "spiral rosewood five-string pipa" was placed in the Shosoin Temple for collection.
So what is the difference between the "spiral rosewood five-string lute" and the general four-string lute? One less string is a lot worse, it is true, it is reported that the fifth string of the "spiral rosewood five-string pipa" can make the range of the pipa more extensive when it is played, and even imitate the timbre of other instruments, if this is the case, it is indeed a god.
Of course, as our Chinese experts, we are also very eager for this "spiral rosewood five-string pipa" to return to the embrace of the motherland, but this is indeed impossible, to know that the cultural relics that were robbed by the Japanese in modern times are not willing to return, let alone the Tang Dynasty period was taken away by them, so it is indeed never possible to get it back.
Because of this, later our Chinese Musical Instrument Museum once imitated a "spiral rosewood five-string pipa", which can be regarded as making up for some regrets!