There are Wuxi Pipa, Pinghu Pipa, Pudong Pipa, Chongming Pipa and Wang Pipa.

1. Wuxi School: In the early Qing Dynasty, pipa was divided into two schools: Southern and Northern. The Southern School, that is, the Zhejiang School, is represented by Chen Mufu, who uses his lower body to draw the wheel. The music he is good at includes "Haiqing", "Removal of Armor", "Moon High", "Pu'an Curse", "General's Order", "Navy Army Drill", "Chen Sui", "Wulin Yiyun", etc. The northern sect, that is, the Zhili sect, is represented by Wang Junxi, who uses Chulun. The music they are good at includes "Ambush from Flying Daggers", "Sunset Flute and Drum", "Xiao Pu'an Curse", "Yan Yue Zhengsheng", etc. Wuxi Hua Qiuping and Hua Zi together learned from the North and South Schools and compiled "North and South Music". The three-volume "Secret Book of the Second School of Pipa Music" uses Gongchi music and has relatively complete fingering records. It is the earliest Pipa music book published in my country. The school taught by Hua was called the Wuxi School.

2. Pinghu School: The Pinghu School is represented by Li Fangyuan. The Li family is a pipa family and has played the piano for five generations. Li Fangyuan’s father often took the piano to socialize and visited famous masters. Under the influence of his family, Li Fangyuan praised himself as " Not only did he have outstanding skills, but he also compiled the "New Score of Daqu Pipa of the Northern and Southern Schools", which was published in the 21st year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. Later generations called it the "Li Family Music Score", and the school taught by Li was called the Pinghu School.

3. Pudong School: Puyue School originated from Ju Shilin, and was passed down by Ju Shilin, Ju Maotang, Chen Zijing, Ni Qingquan, Shen Haochu and other teachers. There are "Ju Shilin Pipa Score", "Chen Zijing Pipa Score" and "Chen Zijing Pipa Score". Yangzhengxuan Pipa Score" and so on.

4. Chongming School: Chongming is located in the northeast corner of Shanghai. It is taught from the pipa music of "Yingzhou Ancient Diao". Since it originated from Chongming Island, later generations called the Chongming School. The Chongming School has been passed down from generation to generation by Jiang Tai, Huang Xiuting, Shen Zhaozhou, Fan Ziyun, and Fan Shaoyun, and is famous for its meaningful and beautiful style of literary music. The Chongming style pipa can be traced back to the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty more than 300 years ago. At that time, the northern style pipa was introduced to the Tongzhou area close to Chongming, and there were people such as Bai Zaimei, Zi Yuru and his son, Fan Huapo, Yang Tingguo and others. The early Chongming style pipa inherited the Northern style pipa from Bai Zaimei. The evolution of its style was influenced by local customs and customs.

5. Wang School: Wang School, also called Shanghai School, is an important pipa school in the history of music development in my country since the 20th century, and is also the only school named after an individual. The formation of the Shanghai School set off the third climax in the history of the development of pipa in my country. Wang Yuting's pipa skills were inspired by Wang Huisheng. Later Wang Huisheng taught Chen Zijing pipa music to Jiang. Later, he was taught by Ni Qingquan and Cao Jinglou of the Pudong School and Yin Jiping of the Pinghu School. They incorporated the traditional pipa music into a performance score based on the actual performance of the flower tones, which was widely taught.