Boil beans and burn beans, and the beans cry in the pot.
We are born from the same root. What's the hurry?
Boiled beans are used as soup and fermented into juice.
Honey burns under the pot, and beans cry in the pot.
We are born from the same root, so why rush to speculate with each other?
Analysis: Speaking of Cao Zhi's poems, this seven-step poem is absolutely necessary. Friends who have seen the Romance of the Three Kingdoms must have a deep memory. Wei Wendi Cao Pi was dissatisfied with Cao Zhi and asked him to write a seven-step poem. If he fails, he will be punished. Cao Zhi answered and agreed. After seven steps, he made a poem, which was the first seven-step poem. After hearing this, Wei Wendi Cao Pi felt very ashamed. So, what is the seven-step poem about? The poem means that the beans are cooked in the pot, the beanstalk is burned at the bottom of the pot, and the beans are crying in the pot. Beans and beanstalks originally grew on the same root. How can beanstalk torture beans in such a hurry?
This poem uses metaphor, with simple language and clear meaning. You can understand without further explanation, and the meaning is self-evident. Cao Zhi expresses his inner grief and indignation through the daily burning of beans. Cao Zhi's metaphor is wonderful, the language is ingenious, and it is really amazing to blurt it out instantly. Especially these two sentences, born from the same root, what's your hurry? For thousands of years, it has become a common language for people to persuade brothers to avoid killing each other, which also shows that this poem is very widely circulated among the people from another angle.
2. White Horse Articles
White horse decorated with gold, flying northwest.
Excuse me, who is the family? You are a ranger.
Young people go to villages and towns, raising their voices and hanging in the desert.
I used to have a good bow, but my arrows were uneven.
If the string is controlled to break the left, the right hair will destroy the moon branch.
Raise your hand to catch flies and bend down to lay horseshoes.
Smarter than monkeys and apes, as brave as leopards.
There are many policemen in the border town, and the number of soldiers and riders is also moving.
Feathers come from the north, and horses climb the embankment.
The dragon drove to the Huns, and the left looked around and led Xianbei.
Give up your life on the blade, and your life will be safe?
Parents don't care, how can we talk about children and wives!
A famous person is a strong person, and he can't be selfish.
Give your life to the national disaster and feel like you're dying!
Analysis: This poem was learned from a Chinese textbook in senior high school. Described and eulogized a young hero in the border area with high martial arts and patriotism. There have been different views on this hymn singer. Some people say it's about his younger brother Cao Zhang, while others say it's about Huo Qubing, a general in title of generals in ancient times in Han Dynasty. But after reading this, I don't think it is. I should write my own book and encourage myself to kill the enemy bravely like Huo Qubing, a general in title of generals in ancient times in Han Dynasty.
Cao Zhi used this poem to express his ambition to serve the country. The heroic image in the poem is not only the poet's self-portrait, but also embodies and shines with the glory of the times, giving Cao Zhi's early important representative works a strong youthful atmosphere.
3. Seven Wounded Poems
The moon shines on the tall buildings, and the lights upstairs are swaying.
There is a sad woman sighing upstairs.
Who is the sigh upstairs? The answer is a wife in another place.
My husband has been away for more than ten years, and he is often timid alone.
My husband is like dust on the road, like mud in dirty water.
Floating dust and mud are different, when can we meet harmoniously?
Yes, I want to turn into a southwest wind and disappear into my husband's arms!
My husband's heart is no longer open to me. What can I rely on?
Analysis: After Cao Cao's death, Cao Pi succeeded to the Great System and was very wary of Cao Zhi. Cao Zhi is ambitious and has nowhere to display, but his brothers and sisters are wary of him everywhere, which makes Cao Zhi disheartened. Knowing that fame and fortune were hopeless, Cao Zhi pinned his sorrow on the sorrow of a dissatisfied wife who shared his joys and sorrows.
This poem is very sad. Cao Zhi compared himself to a slut, to the unfortunate experience of a deserted wife and to the situation of being excluded, and to the estrangement between himself and Emperor Cao Pi, compared to the divorce of his wife and husband, which was almost stranger than passers-by. Cao Zhi felt that the situation between him and his brothers was very different. He secretly spit out his heartfelt words about serving the country, but Cao Pi's ruthlessness made Cao Zhi indignant and showed infinite sadness. The whole poem begins with the sadness of an abandoned woman, and each sentence contains her own experience. On the other hand, Cao Pi's behavior shows that he is not confident in his own throne, and he mostly inherits Cao Cao's suspicious character.
4. Beauty products
The beautiful and quiet girl is busy at the fork of the country road.
Mulberry branches are soft and mulberry leaves fall.
The rolled-up sleeves are clearly visible in her hands, and a gold bracelet is worn on her white wrist.
She wears a sparrow gold hairpin on her head and an emerald green jade on her waist.
The pearls are shining, and corals and pearls are interspersed.
Silk rollers dance in the spring breeze, and thin skirts spin in the wind.
Her look back left a charming light, and the smell of her whistle was like the smell of orchids.
Everyone on the road stopped and refused to go away, and the rest were stupid enough to forget to eat.
Someone asked where the girl was, and her family lived at the south gate of the city.
The green painted tower is on the road, and two doors are tied to the big house.
The girl's face is like the morning sun. Who doesn't love her moving face?
What did the matchmaker do? Why not send a bride price in time to set off the engagement?
A girl must love a noble person, but a virtuous man is hard to find.
To put it bluntly, how do you know what kind of person she is looking for?
Youth bloomed in the boudoir, and in the middle of the night came the voice of her sigh.
Analysis: Cao Zhi is a man with great political ideals. He is eager to make a difference in politics. However, under the persecution of Cao Pi and his son, he lived like a prisoner, brilliant and didn't get a chance to put it to good use. So he wrote this song "Beauty".
The content of the poem is that a handsome girl is picking mulberry in the mulberry forest by the roadside. Her white wrist, golden bracelet, a golden hairpin on her head, and a blue veil fluttering in the wind are very beautiful. When she was picking mulberries, she whistled, and the breath flowed out like the fragrance of orchids. Pedestrians on the roadside, fascinated by it, stopped to watch. Who wouldn't want to have such a beautiful girl? However, girls just like virtuous people, but when they meet virtuous people, they can only lament in the boudoir.
This poem is profound in meaning and unique in metaphor. This poem is similar to that sung by Shang Mo.
Beauty loves a virtuous person and wants to find a virtuous husband, but it is really difficult. There is a metaphor here, that is to say, people with lofty ideals have ideals, but they are difficult to achieve. The ideal of a beautiful woman is beyond ordinary people's understanding, but there is a lot of noise and discussion, and they don't know what kind of person she likes. This is a metaphor that ordinary people don't understand the ideals of people with lofty ideals. The beauty was in the prime of her life, but she lived alone in the boudoir. She was so sad and angry that she couldn't sleep at night and let out a long sigh. This is a metaphor for the frustration of people with lofty ideals who have no talent. This poem compares beautiful women to people with lofty ideals and ambitions, and shows the talents of ambitious people by not marrying beautiful women. It is also Cao Zhi's own lament that it cannot be reused.
5, seven miscellaneous poems, one of them
The high platform is even worse, facing Rizhao Beilin.
The son is in Wan Li, and the rivers and lakes are vast and deep.
The ark is extremely safe, and it is difficult to leave your mind!
Lonely geese fly south, and the president mourns.
I long for people far away, and I want to express my last words.
Disappeared, which broke my heart.
Analysis: This is the first of seven miscellaneous poems written by Cao Zhi in Selected Works of Xiao Tong. This poem is a poem about missing relatives and friends far away. It means that a platform is often blown high on the platform, and the morning light shines in Beilin. At this time, the person I miss is thousands of miles away, and the rivers and lakes are far away and deep. How can this ship arrive smoothly? It's really hard to express my nostalgia. When I looked up, I saw the lonely geese flying south and flying over the courtyard. The long wail was really frustrating. Looking at the lonely goose, I was thinking, I want to let the lonely goose take a message, but the lonely goose flew by without paying attention, and the shadow made me feel even more sad.
It's like saying that I miss women far away. She is far away from me. I'd like to see her, but there is no direct train. I want the geese flying in the sky to bring a letter, but they don't care about me at all. I feel even more sad. At the end of the Han Dynasty, it was common for Wei Chu to be turbulent, displaced, far away from each other, or even not to meet each other. If a person walks on the road and is killed by a bad guy, he won't even know when he sleeps. In troubled times, human life is like dirt.
In addition, from a literary point of view, this poem seems simple and straightforward, but it has profound implications. The first six sentences are mainly fu style, but they seem to be bi xing; The last six sentences mainly focus on bi xing, but tend to fu style. This shows that Cao Zhi obtained the true biography of The Book of Songs and wrote a new poem with a new style of five words. Therefore, judging from the poet's works since Jian 'an, Cao Zhi's poetry should be regarded as a swan song.