One day, Cao Pi called Cao Zhi to him and asked him to write a poem within seven steps to prove his talent in writing poetry. If he can't write it, it will be tantamount to deceiving the emperor and putting him to death.
Cao Zhi was sad and angry when he knew that his brother was going to kill him. He fought back his grief and tried to think about it ... Sure enough, he wrote a seven-step poem and read it out on the spot:
Soak in the kettle, and the beans cry in the kettle.
We were born from the same root, so why should we speculate with each other!
Li Bai's story of reading:
Li Bai was a great poet in Tang Dynasty in China, but he didn't study hard when he was a child, and even had some fun. One day he went to a small river to play and saw an old woman grinding an iron bar. He went up and asked curiously, "Grandma, why are you grinding an iron bar?" The old lady told him that she was sharpening the needle. Li Bai said, "How can such a thick iron bar be ground into a needle?" The old man said, "As long as you work hard, iron bars can be ground into needles." . Li Bai was deeply touched, so he studied hard and became a generation of "poetic immortals".