Title: On the Frontier
Pipa Performance: Jia Ge
Arrangement: Jia Ge
Orchestration: Jia Ge
Mixing: Joseph Ma
“On the Frontier” is an ancient pipa song. The music expresses nostalgia and sadness, depicting Wang Zhaojun’s longing for her homeland, and her grief, melancholy, and sadness. Wang Zhaojun was known as one of the Four Beauties of ancient China. Born in Baoping village, Zigui county (in current Hubei Province) in the Western Han dynasty (206 BC–8 AD), she was sent by Emperor Yuan to marry Chanyu Huhanye of the Xiongnu Empire in order to establish friendly relations with the empire through marriage.
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