Original text:
Boil beans and burn beans, and the beans cry in the pot.
We are born from the same root. What's the hurry?
Seven-step Poetry is from Shi Shuo Xin Yu, which is said to be a famous work of Cao Zhi, a famous scholar of Wei State in the Three Kingdoms period. 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 brothers who killed their younger brothers, vividly and simply reflecting the cruel struggle within the feudal ruling group and the poet's own difficult situation, depressed and angry thoughts and feelings. [ 1]
But whether this poem was written by Cao Zhi is still controversial. [2] Therefore, it is only recorded in Shi Shuo Xin Yu, and whether the historical facts remain to be verified. Moreover, this poem is not included in Cao Zhi Ji, and whether it was written by Cao Zhi is also controversial. Some people think that the five-character quatrains in the Six Dynasties were not popular in the literary world, and the seven-step poems were written by later generations. Another view is that this poetic style is not a five-character quatrain, but perhaps a popular five-character style in Jian 'an literature.