Cai Wenji is the daughter of Cai Yong, a famous ancient writer, calligrapher and musician. Cai Yong once enjoyed a long reputation for composing five piano pieces. Under his influence, his daughter Cai Wenji showed amazing musical talent from an early age.
According to historical records, Cai Yong accidentally broke a string while playing the piano. At the age of six, Cai Wenji immediately judged that this was the first string. Cai Yong was very surprised and deliberately broke the fourth string. As a result, Cai Wenji's answer is still accurate.
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Cai Wenji's literary attainments
Cai Wenji's father is not only a great writer, but also a great calligrapher. He is also good at astronomy, mathematics and physics, and he is a leader in Luoyang literature. Cai Wenji grew up in such a scholarly family. She was very knowledgeable from an early age, good at writing, proficient in poetry and songs, and became a very famous talented woman at an early age.
Cai Wenji's literary achievements mainly include his Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia, which is praised by Guo Moruo as the most pleasant lyric poem since Qu Yuan's Lisao.
The whole poem consists of eighteen paragraphs and eighteen complete sets of songs. Guo Moruo said that in Turkic, the word "first" is called "beat", and eighteen beats are eighteen songs. Because this poem was written by Hu Jia for crying, it was named "Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia" or "Hu Jiaming".
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