2. "An old horse lurks, aiming at a thousand miles" is the motto used by almost all elderly people in China to encourage themselves. "An old horse crouches, aiming at a thousand miles" comes from Cao Cao's "Although a turtle lives long". Meaning: Metaphorically, an ambitious person is still ambitious even when he is old. This poem was written at the beginning of 208 AD, after he put down the Wu Huan Rebellion and wiped out the remnants of Yuan Shao, but before he conquered Jing and Wu in the south. Cao Cao thought: Although Yuan Shao and Ta Dun in the north made peace, Sun Quan and Liu Bei in the south still stood on one side. The great cause of the motherland's reunification has not yet been realized.
At this time, Cao Cao is 53 years old, but the important task of history is on his shoulders, and the mission of reunifying the motherland is still calling him.
3. "Singing to wine, what is life geometry?" Singing through the ages, the strings are endless. "What is life for drinking wine?" It also comes from "short melody" and belongs to "harmony melody and flat melody". It means: life is too short to sing in the face of good wine. Just like the morning dew is fleeting, there are too many lost days! There are two short songs by Cao Cao, and this is the first one. This article expresses the poet's desire for virtue and ambition to unify the world through the singing of banquets.