What is the origin of the seven-step poem?

Seven Steps Poetry is a poem by Cao Zhi, a poet of Wei State in the Three Kingdoms period. In the first year of Huang Chu (220), Cao Pi became emperor Wei Wendi. Cao Pi couldn't let go of the experience of fighting for the Crown Prince. After he proclaimed himself emperor, he still held a grudge against Cao Zhi and tried to get rid of him. Cao Zhi knew that his brother had deliberately framed himself, but he could not excuse himself. He had to write a poem within seven steps in extreme grief and indignation.

This poem uses the seeds and beans from the same root to compare the half-brothers, and uses the seeds and beans to compare the flesh and blood brother Cao Pi who killed his younger brother, expressing strong dissatisfaction with Cao Pi, vividly and simply reflecting the cruel struggle within the feudal ruling group and the poet's own difficult situation and depressed thoughts and feelings.

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The original seven-step poem

Han Dynasty: Cao Zhi

Boiled beans are used as soup and fermented into juice.

Honey burns under the pot, and beans cry in the pot.

We are born from the same root, so why rush to speculate with each other?

Translation:

Boil the beans in a pot, filter the bean dregs, and leave the bean juice to make soup. The beanstalk burns under the pot, and the beans cry in the pot. Beans and beanstalks originally grew on the same root. How can beanstalk torture beans in such a hurry? !

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