汤应曾,明末清初人,因擅长弹奏琵琶,人们都叫他“汤琵琶”。他的生卒年月未见记载,仅从王猷定1651年所写的《汤琵琶传》,约可推知他生活在十六世纪末到十七世纪中叶。他生长在江苏邳州,家境贫苦, Tang should have been, late Ming and early Qing dynasty, because of good playing pipa, people call him “soup pipa.” His years of birth and death have not been recorded, only from Wang Tuan Ding written in 1651 << soup Pipa >> about to infer that he lived in the late sixteenth Century to the mid-seventeenth Century. He grew up in Zhuozhou, Jiangsu Province, poor family,