For example: "short song"
The theme of this "short song" is very clear, that is, the author is thirsty for talents and hopes that all talents will come to him. 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 that "meritocracy means promotion", and for this reason, he successively promulgated the orders of seeking talents, promoting scholars and escaping.
In fact, the "short song" is a "song of seeking wisdom", and it is precisely because it uses the form of poetry and contains rich lyric elements that it can play a unique infectious role, effectively publicize his persistence and cooperate with his decrees.
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Appreciation: "Short songs" is an old topic in Han Yuefu, which belongs to "harmony and flat tone". This means that it was originally the name of a song. The original ancient characters have been lost. There are 24 songs of the same name in Yuefu, the earliest of which is Cao Cao's. How to sing this song, of course, is unknown now.
However, in Yuefu's Harmony Tune, there are "long tunes" as well as "short tunes". Jason Wu's Interpretation of Ancient Poems in Yuefu in Tang Dynasty quoted the ancient poems Long song in Full swing, Ge Yanxing and Short Songs Can't Grow by Wei Wendi Cao Pi, Ge Yanxing and Ge Yanxing by Fu Xuan in Jin Dynasty, and The Governor came to Long song to continue short songs. Now we can only understand the musical characteristics of "short songs" according to this little material.