till first her brother left for the war, and then her aunt died, and evenings went and evenings came, and her beauty faded, with ever fewer chariots and horses at her door and so that finally she gave herself as wife to a merchant. Till first her brother left for the war, and then her aunt died, and evenings went and evenings came, and her beauty faded, with ever fewer chariots and horses at her door, so that finally she gave herself as wife to a merchant, this sentence describes the bleak situation of pipa girls after their old age and decline in color. Looking back, it is not the same year. The author of Pipa Xing is Bai Juyi.