The "Ji" in Cao Cao's famous saying "The old man is in trouble and aims at thousands of miles" is a horse.
Laoji Fufu means aiming for a thousand miles:
Ji: a good horse, a thousand-mile horse; Ji: a manger, a place where horses are raised. Although the old thousand-mile horse lies beside the manger, its ambition is still to gallop a thousand miles. It is a metaphor that an ambitious person still has great ambitions even though he is old. The saying comes from Cao Cao's "The Turtle is Longevity" in the Three Kingdoms Wei Dynasty: "The old man is still in trouble, but his ambition is thousands of miles." It is a metaphor that although an ambitious person is old, he still has great ambitions.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao led his army to eliminate Dong Zhuo, the Yellow Turban Army, Lu Bu, Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao, Liu Biao and other local forces, and controlled the northern territory. Yuan Shao's son defected to Wuhuan in the north. The 53-year-old Cao Cao personally led an army to completely conquer the 200,000 Wuhuan people. After his triumphant victory, he wrote "Stepping out of Xiamen": "I am an old man, but I am ambitious for a thousand miles.
Martyr In his old age, ambition is endless. "The middle volume of Gao Yang's "The Complete Biography of Hu Xueyan: Stepping into the Clouds": "'The old man is ambitious and has great ambitions.' Fourth brother, if you have such ambition, there is an opportunity before you to do something good."
Cao Cao (155-March 15, 220), whose courtesy name was Mengde, whose last name was Geely, and whose nickname was Ahao, was from Qiao County, Peiguo (now Bozhou, Anhui), and was of Han nationality.
An outstanding statesman, military strategist, writer and calligrapher in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The founder of the Cao Wei regime in the Three Kingdoms, in the name of the Emperor of Han, he conquered the four directions, internally eliminated the separatist forces such as Yuan, Lu Bu, Liu Biao, and Han Sui, externally surrendered the Southern Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Xianbei, etc., and unified northern China.