brief introduction
Cai Yan was an outstanding poetess and calligrapher in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Is the first female poet in China. Moon Hee, also known as Evonne, was born in Chen Liulai (now Qixian County, Henan Province) at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. She is the daughter of Cai Yong, a famous writer in the late Han Dynasty.
She was born in about 177- 178 (six to seven years of Emperor Han Ping Xi). She was extremely clever since she was a child, and she was nurtured by her family and taught by her father. Her accomplishments in literature, temperament and calligraphy have reached a high level.
Ye Fan, the author of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, called her "knowledgeable and well-behaved". There are two poems of grief and indignation today, and Hu Jia has 18 beats.
Cai Yan, Wen Xi, Evonne [1]. The year of birth and death is unknown. Li was the daughter of Cai Yong, a great writer in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The first time I married Wei Zhongdao, my husband died and went home. Later, due to the invasion of Xiongnu, Cai Yan was abducted by Xiongnu Zuo, married to Xiongnu, and gave birth to two children. Twelve years later, Cao Cao unified the north, redeemed Cai Yan with a large sum of money and married her to Dong Si.
Cai Yan is also good at literature, music and calligraphy. Sui Shu Jing Ji Zhi contains a volume of Cai Wenji Ji, which has been lost. The only works that Cai Wenji can see now are Hu Jia's Two Mourning Poems and Eighteen Beats.
The life of the character
Cai Wenji is well-read and proficient in music. He married Wei Zhongdao in Hedong in his early years. Wei Zhongdao died early, they had no children, and Cai Yan went home.
In the second year of Xingping (195), Dong Zhuo and Li Jue made an insurrection in Guanzhong of the Central Plains, and the Huns took the opportunity to plunder, and Cai Yan was taken away by the Huns. Cai Yan lived in the north for twelve years and gave birth to two children.
In the 11th year of Jian 'an (207), Cao Cao always loved literature and calligraphy, and often had literary and calligraphy exchanges with Cai Yan's father Cai Yong. When Cao Cao saw that Cai Yong had no children, he redeemed Cai Yan from Xiongnu with Jin Bi and married Cai Yan to Dong Si.
Then Dong Si committed a capital crime, Cai Yan went to intercede with Cao Cao, and Dong Si also went. At that time, Cao Cao was hosting a banquet for officials and celebrities and said to all the guests, "Cai Yong's daughter is outside. Let everyone meet her today. " Cai Yan's long hair and bare feet, kowtowing and confession, clear words and sour emotions touched all the guests. However, Cao Cao said, "However, the documents for reducing the crime have been sent out. What should we do? " Cai Yan said, "There are thousands of good horses in your stable and countless brave foot soldiers. You also set aside a fast horse to save a dying life? " Cao Cao was finally moved by Cai Wenji and pardoned Dong Si.
Cai Yan wrote two sorrowful poems after returning home. Since then, there has been no record of Cai Yan, and the date of death is unknown.
literature
After Cai Yan returned to Han Dynasty, she wrote two poems of mourning and anger, one in five words and one in Sao style. [7] The first five-character poem, with the theme of "sentimental separation", is a sentimental narrative poem and the first autobiographical long narrative poem created by a literati in the history of China poetry. Zhang Yugu, a poetic theorist in the Qing Dynasty, once wrote a five-character poem praising Cai Yan: "Wenxi only wants to crush Wen Jun, and' grief and indignation' is long. The old Du family lived in the Seventh Division of Cao Cao, and the incense can also reach the hairpin skirt. " Cai Yan's talent overwhelmed 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.
Sorrow and indignation poems, written in Sao style, are aimed at expressing emotions. The first and second sections briefly describe the experience of Hu and his son being captured in Han Dynasty, and in the middle, a large part of natural scenery is used to render Cai Yan's sad mood of leaving his hometown. In these descriptions of scenery and human feelings, Chae Yeon talked about their differences from her hometown of China, in order to describe her deep sadness and indignation in this different environment from China.