Cao Cao led the "Seven Scholars" and "Three Caos" to establish the "Jian 'an Style": their poems showed the spirit of the times, had a generous and sad masculine style, inherited the realistic tradition of folk songs in Han Yuefu, and generally adopted the five-character style, which set off the climax of literati poetry for the first time.
Cao Cao also recalled Cai Wenji from Xiongnu.