Cai Yan (about 174-239), Wen Ji, also known as Zhao Ji, was a writer of the Eastern Han Dynasty. She was versatile and proficient in music. She was one of the four most talented women in ancient China.
One is a scholarly family, shining on you
Cai Wenji’s father is the famous Cai Yong. Cai Yong performed well at that time, even in history.
1. Cai Yong was a famous official in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
In his early years, Cai Yong refused to be recruited by the imperial court, and later joined the army as a Situ, serving as a river chief, doctor, and debater.
After Dong Zhuo came to power, he forced Cai Yong to offer sacrificial wine. He once served as history minister, library master, history minister, middle school official, and Zuo Zhonglang General. It was named the hometown of Gaoyang and was known as "Cai Zhonglang" by the world.
2. Cai Yong is a great writer.
Cai Yong was the last master of Ci and Fu in the Han Dynasty. Most of his poems are short poems, with rich materials, close to life, fresh language, often expressing his own feelings, full of social sentiments and artistic appeal. His representative work is "Shu Dao Xing Fu".
Cai Yong's prose is good at inscriptions, neat and elegant. He used to organize couplets, which was very valued in the old society. Cai Yong wrote more than 400 poems.
3. Cai Yong is a great calligrapher.
Cai Yong's official script and official script, especially the official script, are famous for their neat text structure, sharp pointillism and changeable style.
Created "Fei Bai Shu". This style of calligraphy, line drawing, seems to be written with a dead pen. It is a unique style of calligraphy that has a great influence on later generations. When Zhang Tang Huaiguan commented on Cai Yong's "Baifei" in Shu Dao, he once said, "Baifei is wonderful, it combines magic".
4. Cai Yong is also good at astronomy, mathematics, and music.
The Wei Jiao Qin (made of burnt paulownia wood) made by Cai Yong is one of the famous pianos in ancient China.
Cai Wenji I was born in such a family and have been exposed to it since I was a child. In addition, I am talented, knowledgeable, and educated. I am good at poetry, eloquence and rhythm.
2. Emotional experience
1. In 1888, Cai Wenji married Wei Zhongdao (the Wei family was a famous family in Hedong). The next year, Wei Zhongdao died of illness and they had no children, so Cai Yan returned to his home.
2. In 1995, Dong Zhuo and others from the Central Plains made trouble in Guanzhong. The Xiongnu took the opportunity to plunder, and Cai Yan was taken away by the Xiongnu Zuo Wangxian. Cai Yan lived in the north for twelve years and gave birth to two children.
3. In 2007, Cao Cao had a literary and calligraphy exchange with Cai Yong, the father of Cai Wenji. When Cao Cao saw that Cai Yong had no children, he used gold to redeem Cai Wenji from the Huns and married Cai Wenji to Dong Si (Cao Cao's farm surname).
Three Talents Ascend
1. Literature: There are two "Poems of Sorrow and Indignation", one in five-character style and one in Sao style.
"Five Words of Sorrow and Indignation" with the theme of "sentiment and separation" is a narrative poem with emotion as the theme. It is the first autobiographical long narrative poem written by a literati in the history of Chinese poetry.
Zhang Yugu, a poetry critic in the Qing Dynasty, once wrote a hymn: "Yueji wants to suppress Wenjun, and she writes a long poem of sorrow and anger." The old Du Jiazong took Cao Qibu with him. She can handle both incense and hairpins. skirt. Cai Yan's talent surpassed that of Zhuo Wenjun, a talented woman in the Han Dynasty, and the five-character narrative poems of Cao Zhi and Du Fu were also influenced by Cai Yan.
The purpose of Sao-style poems of grief and indignation is to express emotions. In the first and second stanzas, the experience of being captured by Hu and others and returning to the Han Dynasty is relatively brief. The large piece of natural scenery in the middle is used to exaggerate Cai Yan's sadness of leaving his hometown. In these descriptions of landscapes and people, Cai Yan talks about their differences from her hometown in Middle-earth, thereby describing her deep sorrow and anger in this environment that is completely different from Middle-earth.
2. Music: Compose Hu Jia’s eighteen beats.
This is the lyrics of ancient Chinese Yuefu Qin music, a vocal suite composed of eighteen songs. Originally published in Guo Maoqian's "Collection of Yuefu Poems" in the Song Dynasty.
Lu Shiyong of the Ming Dynasty said: "Tokyo style is declining, Cai Wenji is Yingying." Reading Hu Jiayin can make you sit in shock, and the sand will fly by itself. Really intense hugs. "
3. Superb memory: write ancient books silently.
Cai Wenji went to Cao Cao to plead for Dong Si when Dong Si committed a capital crime. Cai Yan's father, Cai Yong, once collected many ancient books. Cao Cao asked Cai Yan: "I heard that your family has many ancient books. Do you remember them now? Cai Yan said: "My father originally left me more than four thousand volumes, but due to the displacement during the war, very few books have been preserved." Now I can only write more than 400 books. "So Cai Wenji wrote down his ancient book and gave it to Cao Cao without any mistakes.