In his political activities, in order to expand his ruling base among civilian landlords and crack down on reactionary hereditary forces, Cao Cao once strongly emphasized "meritocracy", and for this reason, he successively issued orders to seek talents, recruit scholars and escape.
And "A Short Song Line" is actually a poem "Seeking Virtue". It is precisely because it uses the form of poetry and contains rich lyrical elements that it can play a unique infectious role, effectively publicize his persistence and cooperate with his decrees.
The whole poem gives full play to the characteristics of poetry, accurately and skillfully uses metaphor, and achieves the goal of combining reason with emotion and touching. At that time, Cao Cao was able to achieve the expected social effect according to the special laws of lyric poetry, and this creative experience is obviously worth learning from later generations.
At the same time, because Cao Cao's emphasis on "meritocracy" at that time had certain progressive significance, his highly artistic performance on the theme of "seeking talents" should also be affirmed by history.
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Cao Cao's Two Short Songs is a poem to remember. At the scene of the wedding ceremony with wine as a song, he was excited by emotion, lyrical on the spot, thinking about the Millennium with his heart in the world. In the long and gloomy anxiety, he aroused the generosity of resisting ambition and expressed his desire for talents to rebuild Wang Ye.
Zhou Xibochang is an epic poem with straightforward writing. It praised Zhou Wenwang, Qi Huangong and Jin Wengong's great virtues of sticking to the Minister's Day and benefiting the world with small things, and declared that they only had the ambition to help the Han Dynasty with all their strength, but never represented the heart of self-reliance in the Han Dynasty. The perfect combination of the two poems fully shows Cao Cao's personality, education, ambition and ideal, and his poems are magnificent and elegant.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Short Songs