Extensive knowledge, good at literature, music and calligraphy. I married Wei Zhongdao for the first time and went home after my husband died. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Central Plains was in chaos, and the southern Xiongnu, who had originally surrendered to the Han Dynasty, took the opportunity to rebel. Cai Wenji was captured by Xiongnu Zuo and gave birth to two children. After Cao Cao unified the north, he spent a lot of money to redeem and marry Dong Si.
The Annals of Sui Shu's Classics contains a volume of Cai Wenji Collection, which has been lost today, except for Two Poems for the Past and Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia. The story of Wenxi returning to Han is widely circulated.
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After Cai Yan returned to Han Dynasty, she wrote two sorrowful and indignant poems, one in five words and one in Sao style. ?
Among them, Wuyanben, which focuses on Sentimental Parting, is an emotional narrative poem and the first autobiographical long narrative poem written by 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 his five-character narrative poems were all influenced by Cai Yan.