Among them, Cao Cao was a famous politician, strategist, writer and calligrapher in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the founder of Cao Wei regime in the Three Kingdoms period. He was an outstanding writer in Jian 'an period, a pioneer in creating a new situation of Jian 'an literature, and created a new atmosphere of Jian 'an literature with a beautiful style. His main poems are Short Song, Watching the Sea, and Although the Turtle is Longevity. Cao Cao is good at four-character poems, which is called another peak of four-character poems after the Book of Songs. After him, four-character poems gradually declined. His poems are vigorous and solemn, praising ideals.
Cao Zhi's literary achievements are the highest, his five-character poems are well written, and people know the seven-step poems best. Later generations gave him the highest evaluation, which may also be related to his depressed life. Cao Pi's literary achievements are the lowest, but what makes later generations relish is his classic thesis, in which he puts forward a very important point, that is, scholars despise each other.
Cao Cao's sons Cao Zhi and Cao Pi
Cao Pi was a famous politician and writer in the Three Kingdoms period, the founding emperor of Cao Wei and the son of Cao Cao. He is good at poetry and songs, and his representative works include Yan Ge Xing and Wu Zhi Shu. Among them, Yan Geling used seven words and rhymed every sentence, which played an important role in the development history of China's seven-word poems.
Cao Zhi is a famous writer of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms, a representative of Jian 'an literature, the son of Cao Cao and the brother of Cao Pi. He was the first writer who created five-character poems vigorously, which pushed the development of five-character poems of literati to an unprecedented peak and marked the complete maturity of five-character poems of literati. His prose and ci-fu also show high ideological and artistic quality, among which Luo Shenfu is beautiful, a letter with Wu Ji and a letter with Yang Zu are two famous essays.