At the age of sixteen, Cai Wenji married Wei Zhongdao, a gifted scholar, and they were very affectionate. Unfortunately, it backfired. Not long after, Wei Zhongdao got lung disease, coughed and vomited blood all day, and died less than a year after marriage. After Wei Zhongdao's death, Cai Wenji returned to his family.
At that time, it was at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the world was in chaos. In the third year of Xian Di Chuping (192), Dong Zhuo was killed soon, and Cai Yong was arrested and imprisoned for being implicated, and died in prison soon. Hu Bing, who was alone, was abducted by the army, and went to the South Xiongnu (in the area of Yikezhao League in Inner Mongolia), where she was left as a princess. After Cao Cao pacified the north, he learned that Cai Wenji lived in South Xiongnu. In the eighth year of Jian 'an (2003), he sent Zhou Jin as an envoy to carry a pair of gold and white jade and redeemed her. Cai Wenji married Dongsi, a wasteland captain from a noble family in Liu Chen.
Cai Wenji is unfortunate. He just turned 30 and has been married three times, but there are still unfortunate things waiting for Cai Wenji. Soon, Dongsi committed a capital crime and was beheaded. After Cai Wenji learned the news, in the cold winter, the Beatles went barefoot to ask Cao Cao for forgiveness. Cai Wenji was moved by emotion, and Dongsi was pardoned. Dong Si resigned, and the couple lived in seclusion and had a good home.
According to legend, when Zuo was accepted as a princess, they were very loving, lived together for 12 years and had two sons.
During his twelve years living in the southern Xiongnu, Cai Wenji not only did not neglect poetry creation, but also learned the local foreign languages with a solid foundation, and created Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia with his own musical talent.
The lyrics of Hu Jia's eighteen beats are divided into eighteen chapters, one for each beat. The main content of the first shot is to point out the background of "disorderly separation", the second shot is to write about her homesickness, and the twelfth shot is to dissect the contradiction between homesickness and real life. On the thirteenth shot, I turned to the narrative that I couldn't bear to be separated from my children. The lyrics of the last paragraph are: Hu and Han are different, and heaven and earth are separated, so I complain bitterly. Although Liuhe is wide and wide, it is unbearable. At the end of the whole set of vocal music, feelings surged like a frenzy, which really made people cry!
It is said that Cai Wenji often played this song in Alakazam to express his homesickness. Later, Cao Cao recently sent Zhou to redeem it. After many days of ideological struggle, he bid farewell to Zuo and his two children with tears and embarked on the road to return home.
Hu Jia, a Alakazam Jia, was popular among nomadic people in Saibei and the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty. "Sword", shaped like a hairpin, is the main instrument in drum music in Han Dynasty. Hu Jia is good at expressing grief and penetrating, which accords with the strong personality of nomadic people and the characteristics of herding horses. There are many articles about "Jia" in history. Cai Wenji's Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia, by going up one flight of stairs, expanded the expressive force of "Jia".
Guo Moruo, an authoritative figure in modern literature and history, once made textual research on the lyrics in Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia from the perspective of literature and linguistics, and came to the conclusion that the creator must be Cai Wenji, which is regarded as the most commendable lyric poem since Qu Yuan's Li Sao.