The earliest performer of pipa music in Chu and Han Dynasties was named Tang Yingzeng.

Tang Yingzeng, a native of Pizhou, nicknamed "Tang Pipa", was a famous pipa player in the north after the Wanli year of the Ming Dynasty. ?

According to Wang Youding's "The Biography of Tang Pipa": Tang Ying once lived in poverty all his life, never married a wife, and was extremely filial to his mother. He was very sensitive to music when he was young. He cried when he heard singing. After he learned to sing, he cried again after singing. His mother asked him why he was so sad. He said that he was moved by the song.

Tang Ying once accompanied the army in Jiayyu, Zhangye, Saquan and other places in his early years, and was familiar with military life. He performed very profoundly when playing "Chu-Han" (namely "Ambush from Flying Daggers"). At the end of the Ming Dynasty, he returned to his hometown in Jiangsu and lived in Huaipu (now west of Lianshui, Jiangsu) and Taoyuan (now Siyang, Jiangsu), but his whereabouts are unknown. There is no record of his birth and death.

In traditional Chinese pipa music, wenqu and martial arts are important components. Wenqu expresses profound inner thoughts and feelings with its beautiful and lyrical melody. And the immersive artistic realm has been loved by people.

Before the Sui and Tang Dynasties (581-618), pipa was the collective name for the plucked instruments. The plucked instrument was called pipa when it was popped forward, and the pipa was called when it was pulled in backward. The Quxiang pipa originated in Persia and was introduced to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China around the middle of the sixth century AD. It was played with a wooden plectrum in the Tang Dynasty and gradually improved to finger playing. It has rich expressive colors and difficult playing skills.