About Cai Wenji in history.

Cai Yan, Wen Xi, Evonne. The year of birth and death is unknown. Li was the daughter of Cai Yong, a great writer in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The first time I married Wei Zhongdao, my husband died and went home. Later, due to the invasion of Xiongnu, Cai Yan was abducted by Xiongnu Zuo, married to Xiongnu, and gave birth to two children. Twelve years later, Cao Cao unified the north, redeemed Cai Yan with a large sum of money, and betrothed her to Dong Si.

Cai Yan is also good at literature, music and calligraphy. Sui Shu Jing Ji Zhi contains a volume of Cai Wenji Ji, which has been lost. The only works that Cai Wenji can see now are Hu Jia's Two Mourning Poems and Eighteen Beats.

The life of the character

Cai Wenji is well-read and proficient in music. He married Wei Zhongdao in Hedong in his early years. Wei Zhongdao died early, they had no children, and Cai Yan went home.

In the second year of Xingping (195), Dong Zhuo and Li Jue made an insurrection in Guanzhong of the Central Plains, and the Huns took the opportunity to plunder, and Cai Yan was taken away by the Huns. Cai Yan lived in the north for twelve years and gave birth to two children. ?

In the 11th year of Jian 'an (207), Cao Cao always loved literature and calligraphy, and often had literary and calligraphy exchanges with Cai Yan's father Cai Yong. When Cao Cao saw that Cai Yong had no children, he redeemed Cai Yan from the Huns with resplendence and married Cai Yan to Dong Si.

Then Dong Si committed a capital crime, Cai Yan went to intercede with Cao Cao, and Dong Si also went. At that time, Cao Cao was hosting a banquet for officials and celebrities and said to all the guests, "Cai Yong's daughter is outside. Let everyone meet her today. " Cai Yan's long hair and bare feet, kowtowing and confession, clear words and sour emotions touched all the guests.

However, Cao Cao said, "However, the documents for reducing the crime have been sent out. What should we do? " Cai Yan said, "There are thousands of good horses in your stable and countless brave foot soldiers. You also set aside a fast horse to save a dying life? " Cao Cao was finally moved by Cai Wenji and pardoned Dong Si. ?

Cai Yan wrote two sorrowful poems after returning home. Since then, there has been no record of Cai Yan, and the date of death is unknown.

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Personality achievement

literature

After Cai Yan returned to Han Dynasty, she wrote two poems of mourning and anger, one in five words and one in Sao style. Among them, Wuyanben, which focuses on Sentimental Parting, is an emotional narrative poem and the first autobiographical long narrative poem written by literati in the history of China poetry.

Zhang Yugu, a poetic theorist in the Qing Dynasty, once wrote a five-character poem praising Cai Yan: "Wenxi only wants to crush Wen Jun, and' grief and indignation' is long. The old Du family lived in the Seventh Division of Cao Cao, and the incense can also reach the hairpin skirt. " Cai Yan's talent overwhelmed Zhuo Wenjun, a talented woman in the Han Dynasty, and the five-character narrative poems of Cao Zhi and Du Fu were also influenced by Cai Yan.

Sorrow and indignation poems, written in Sao style, are aimed at expressing emotions. The first and second sections briefly describe the experience of Hu and his son being captured in Han Dynasty, and in the middle, a large part of natural scenery is used to render Cai Yan's sad mood of leaving his hometown. In these descriptions of scenery and human feelings, Chae Yeon talked about their differences from her hometown of China, in order to describe her deep sadness and indignation in this different environment from China. ?

music

"Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia" is a lyric of China ancient Yuefu with 1297 words, and it is a vocal suite composed of 18 songs. The original issue of Guo Maoqian's Poems of Song Yuefu (Volume 59) and Zhu's Comments on Chu Ci (Volume 3) are slightly different.

Lu Shiyong, a Ming Dynasty man, said in "A General Theory of Poetry and Mirrors": "When the wind in Tokyo wanes, Cai Wenji will become a talent in Ying Ying. Reading "Hu Yiyin" can make people feel shocked, and the wind and sand are flying, which is really fierce. "

calligraphy

Cai Yan's father, Cai Yong, is a great calligrapher. He created eight-point fonts. Cai Yan's handwriting is also very good. Han Yu once said: "The corps commander (Cai Yong) has a woman who can carry on the family line." Cai Yan once wrote ancient books silently at the request of Cao Cao, saying that he could write both portrait books and cursive scripts.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Cai Wenji (a talented woman in the Three Kingdoms period at the end of Han Dynasty)