Cao Zhi was a figure in the Three Kingdoms Cao Wei at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Cao Zhi (192-December 27, 232), courtesy name Zijian, was born in Qiao County, Peiguo (now Bozhou City, Anhui Province). He was born in Dongwuyang (now Shen County, Shandong Province). Juancheng), the third son born to Cao Cao and Empress Wu Xuan Bian, was King Chen during his lifetime, and was given the posthumous title "Si" after his death, so he was also called King Chen Si.
Cao Zhi was a famous writer during the Three Kingdoms period. As one of the representatives and masters of Jian'an literature, he was respected as a model of articles during the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties. His representative works include "Luo Shen Fu", "White Horse Pian", "Seven Sorrow Poems", etc. Later generations named him, Cao Cao and Cao Pi the "Three Caos" because of their literary attainments.
His poetry had a great influence on later generations, and his talent was highly praised by later generations of poets. Together with his father Cao Cao and his brother Cao Pi, he was known as the "Three Caos". However, unlike his father and brother, Cao Zhi did not hold important military and political positions throughout his life. Because he was granted the title of King Chen and given the posthumous title Si, he was often referred to as King Chen Si or King Chen in later articles.
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Due to the favorable circumstances in Cao Zhi's early period, his poems were full of high spirits and the tone was cheerful and heroic. The work has more than enough elegance, but not enough flesh and blood. In the later period, his ambition was thwarted, and he was suppressed and persecuted. His poetic style turned into a sad and angry, generous and unfair poem, showing his resentment towards the oppressors and his strong spirit of seeking liberation.
Cao Zhi's works are "extraordinarily high-spirited". He constantly pursued the ideal of making contributions throughout his life, and was good at expressing generous and tragic feelings, depression, sadness and indignation with images that are full of vigor and vitality, yet magnificent and majestic. intersection.
Cao Zhi's works are included in "Cao Zijian Collection". The 10th volume of "Collected Works of Cao Zijian" contains Cao Zhi's poems and poems. Among them, there are more than 80 relatively complete poems, more than half of which are Yuefu poetry styles. His representative works include "Seven Sorrowful Poems", "White Horse Pian", "Giving the White Horse to Wang Biao", "Guests from Thousands of Miles Away", etc.
It is said that the origin of China's native chanting is that when Cao Zhi, King Chensi of the Cao Wei Dynasty, visited Yushan (in today's Dong'e County, Shandong Province), he heard the sound of heavenly music and chanting in the air. It was wonderful and had profound artistic conception. I was deeply impressed, so I recorded the syllables, combined them with the "Prince Ruiying Benqi Sutra", wrote the text and made the music, and composed "Ode to the Prince" and "Ode to the Bodhisattva". This was the beginning of the creation of Sanskrit chants that were combined with Chinese Sanskrit music.