Pipa Pavilion, Jiujiang, Jiangxi 江西九江琵琶亭
The Pipa Pavilion stands on the Yangtze bank northwest of central Jiujiang, Jiangxi, and takes its name from Bai Juyi's "Song of the Pipa". Demoted to a minor post in Jiangzhou, Bai was seeing off a friend by the river when he heard a former Chang'an singer, stranded here, play the pipa, and wrote: "We are both outcasts at the edge of the world; why must people who meet have known each other before?" The pavilion has been destroyed and rebuilt many times; the present one is a later reconstruction.
