Origin: Two Short Songs (Part I) written by Cao Cao, a politician and writer at the end of Han Dynasty, with the ancient theme of Yuefu.
The whole poem is as follows:
Sing to wine, life is geometric!
morning dew, for example, is more painful when you go to Japan.
be generous and worry is unforgettable.
how to relieve worries? Only Du Kang.
the green lady is leisurely in my heart.
but for your sake, I have pondered it so far.
yo yo Luming Literature, the apple of the wild.
I have a guest, blowing sheng.
when can it be as clear as the moon?
worry comes from it and can't be cut off.
the more you cross the street, the more useless you are.
talk openly? I miss the old grace.
there are few stars in the moon, and blackbirds fly south.
three turns around the tree, what branch can you rely on?
the mountains are never too high, and the sea is never too deep.
the duke of Zhou vomited and fed, and the world returned to the heart.
Singing while drinking, life is short and the sun flies. It's like the morning dew is fleeting, and there are too many lost days! The songs on the table are passionate and generous, and melancholy fills the heart for a long time. By what to relieve depression? Only binge drinking can relieve you. Those students in blue collars, you make me miss you day and night.
it's just because of you that I've been chanting with deep sorrow ever since. In the sun, deer are chirping and eating leisurely on the green slope. Once the talented people from all over the world come to our house, I will play blowing sheng to entertain the guests. When can I pick up the bright moon hanging in the sky? My long-held worries and resentments suddenly gushed out and merged into a long river
Distant guests came to visit me one by one on the field path. Meet each other after a long separation, have a heart-to-heart talk and have a feast, and strive to tell the old friendship. The moonlight is bright and the stars are sparse, and a group of nesting blackbirds fly south. Flying around the tree for three weeks without folding their wings, where can they live?
the mountains are majestic only when they don't bother with earth and stone, and the sea is magnificent only when it doesn't abandon the trickle. I would like to be as courteous to corporal Xian as Duke Zhou, and I hope that the heroes in the world will sincerely submit to me.
expanded information
Wei and Jin dynasties were a world of chaos and suffering, and handsome men came forth in large numbers. Cao Cao, the hero of the house. For thousands of years, everyone thought that Cao Cao was a cold-faced star killer, and everyone knew this famous short song.
unfortunately, it seems that not many people can really understand it thoroughly. If you thoroughly understand this short song, you will have a completely different understanding of Cao Cao!
this poem seems to be gloomy and desolate outside, and it has the so-called "Wei-Jin style", but it is permeated with gentle tenderness and lofty realm, surpassing coquettish, and it is really worthy of eternal farewell. The artistic conception of this poem is extremely grand and profound, and only great politicians can do it, not coquettish poets.
Short Songs is an old topic of Han Yuefu, which belongs to Xianghe Songs and Pingdiaoqu. This means that it was originally the name of a piece of music. The music "Short Songs" should have a corresponding lyric, that is, "Yuefu Ancient Lyrics", but the ancient lyrics have been lost.
Cao Cao's "A Short Song" is a quasi-Yuefu. The so-called "quasi-Yuefu" is to fill in new words by applying old Yuefu songs and then sing them for musicians. Therefore, the "quasi-Yuefu" that appeared in the Han Dynasty was the beginning of the so-called "lyrics" later.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Two Short Songs