Source: Cao Cao, author of two short songs.
Full text:
Singing to wine, life geometry! For example, morning dew is much more difficult to go to Japan. Be generous, and your troubles will be unforgettable. How to solve your worries? Only Du Kang.
Qingqing is your collar, YY is my miss. But for your sake, I've thought it over. A herd of deer, yo, ate mugwort in Ye Yuan. I have a group of good guests, playing the piano and playing the piano.
As clear as the bright moon, when can I forget it? The troubles come from this and cannot be cut off. The weirder, the more useless. Talk about it? I miss the elegance of the past.
There are few stars on the moon, and blackbirds fly south. Turn around the tree three times, what branches can you rely on? The mountain is never too high, and the sea is never too deep. The duke of Zhou vomited, and the world returned to the heart.
Translation:
Singing to wine, life is short and the sun flies. Just like the morning dew is fleeting, there are too many lost days! The songs on the table are passionate and generous, and melancholy has filled my heart for a long time. By what to alleviate depression? Only binge drinking can set you free. Blue-collar students, you make me miss you day and night. It is because of you that I have been chanting deeply to this day.
In the sunshine, the deer are chirping on the green slope and eating leisurely. Once talented people from all over the world come to our home, I will entertain guests in blowing sheng. When can I pick the bright moon hanging in the sky? My long-standing worries and resentment suddenly poured out and merged into a long river. Guests from afar came to visit me one after another on the field path.
Meet again after a long separation, have a good chat and try to tell old feelings. There are few stars in the moon, and a group of nesting blackbirds fly south. Fly around the tree for three weeks without breaking your wings. Where can you live? The mountains do not hesitate to look at the towering rocks, but the sea does not abandon the trickle to see the grandeur. I would like to be as courteous as the Duke of Zhou, and I would like the heroes of the world to submit to me sincerely.
Cao Cao (155-0315,220) was born in Mengde, a lucky man and a small character, Asan, from Peiguoqiao County (now Bozhou, Anhui Province). At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was an outstanding politician, strategist, writer and calligrapher, and the founder of the Cao Wei regime in the Three Kingdoms.
Cao Cao served as the prime minister of the Eastern Han Dynasty and later named Wang Wei, which laid the foundation for the establishment of Cao Wei. After his death, posthumous title became King Wu. After his son Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor, he was honored as Emperor Wu, with the temple name Mao.
The extended information "Two Short Songs" is two poems written by Cao Cao, a politician and writer at the end of Han Dynasty, with the theme of ancient Yuefu. The first poem expresses the poet's desire for virtue and ambition to unify the world through the singing of banquets. The second song praises Zhou Wenwang, Qi Huangong and Jin Wengong's adherence to the history of the Minister's Day, indicating that they only have the ambition to help the Han Dynasty, but have no intention of representing the Han Dynasty's independence.
These two poems are elegant, solemn, profound and full of emotion. Their political content and significance are completely integrated into the rich lyrical artistic conception, which fully shows Cao Cao's personality, knowledge, ambition and ideal, and his magnificent and elegant poems.
Creation background
There are roughly five theories about the creation time of the first poem in academic circles. 1. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, based on Su Shi's "Poem on Red Cliff", advocates that Cao Cao recite this poem "Drinking and Writing Songs" before the Chibi War, and the time is set at the end of the 13th year of Jian 'an (2008).
The second is the theory of seeking talents, which comes from Zhang Keli's Chronicle of Three Caos: "While seeking talents, we express our eager desire to recruit talents." The time was in the fifteenth year of Jian 'an (2 10).
Third, cross-strait harmony and singing originated from ten thousand. He believes that this poem was written in the first year of Jian 'an in Han Dynasty (196), and Cao Cao moved the Emperor Gaozu to Xudu, and Cao Cao made friends with his confidants and sang it.
Fourth, eat, drink, and be merry. The exact time has not been verified. This sentence is Shen Deqian's "The Source of Ancient Poetry" Volume 5: "A Short Song". It is also fun to say it in time. Fifthly, Wang Qing hosted Wu Wan Khan at a banquet in May of the 21st year of Jian 'an (2 16).
As for the second song, it is also difficult for academic circles to determine its specific creation time, which can only be roughly inferred as between the seventeenth year of Jian 'an (2 12) and the twenty-second year (2 17).
In the 16th year of Jian 'an (2 1 1), in the first month of spring, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty appointed Cao Cao and Cao Pi as corps commanders with five senses, and later appointed Cao Zhi and others as Hou. In the seventeenth year of Jian 'an (2 12), Xian Di ordered Cao Cao to "praise the nameless, not the dynasty, and go to the temple with a sword, such as the story of Xiao He"; In March of the 19th year of Jian 'an (2 14), Wei Gong and Cao Cao were appointed to the throne, and were awarded the titles of gold, red dragon and crown. In the 21st year of Jian 'an (2 16), Cao was appointed as Wei.
In the summer and April of the 22nd year of Jian 'an (2 17), Wang Cao was ordered to "erect a banner for the emperor and call it a warning sign. ..... In the winter of October, the son of heaven ordered Wang (Cao Cao) to take the second crown, ride a golden horse and six horses, set up an auxiliary car at five o'clock, and named Pi, a corps commander with five senses, as Prince Wei ". With the expansion of power and territory, people outside Cao Shi Group suspect that Cao Cao has the heart to stand on his own feet on behalf of the Han Dynasty.
At that time, Sun Quan of Soochow seized the opportunity and sent an envoy to the table to declare the surrender of destiny, with the intention of urging Cao Caodai, but Cao Cao was alert to a plot of Sun Quan and said, "This is what I want to do!" Cao Cao knew the danger of Gao Zhen, so he gave this song "Zhou Xibochang" as a token of his heart.
References:
Two short songs-Baidu Encyclopedia