The theme of this short song is very clear, that is, the author hopes to have a large number of talents for his own use. 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.
Short songs are an old topic in Han Yuefu, which belongs to harmony songs and melodies. In other words, it was originally the name of a piece of music. Now, of course, I don't know how to sing this kind of music.
However, in Yuefu's Harmony Tune, there are "long tunes" as well as "short tunes". In the Tang Dynasty, Wu's Interpretation of Ancient Poems in Yuefu quoted Fu Xuan's ancient poems such as Long Cao Bu Xing, Xing and Duh, Come to Long song to continue short songs, and thought that Long song was fierce.
At present, we can only understand the musical characteristics of "short songs" according to this little material. Of course, this song "Short Song" originally had corresponding lyrics, that is "Yuefu Ancient Ci", but this ancient ci has been lost. The earliest short line that can be seen now is Cao Cao's quasi-Yuefu short line.
The so-called "quasi-Yuefu" is to make up new words with old Yuefu songs. There are two short songs written by Cao Cao, and here is the best one.
Brief introduction of Cao Cao
Cao Cao (155 -2 Gengzi in the first month), whose real name was Meng De, a native of Geely, and a native of Guo Pei (now Bozhou, Anhui), was of Han nationality. An outstanding politician, strategist, writer and calligrapher in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. After the founder of Cao Wei's regime in the Three Kingdoms, his son Cao refused to proclaim himself emperor, he was honored as Emperor Wu, with the temple name Taizu.
Cao Cao is good at poetry, expressing his political ambitions and reflecting the miserable life of the people in the late Han Dynasty. His charm is magnificent, generous and sad, and his prose is neat, which opened and prospered Jian 'an literature and left valuable spiritual wealth to future generations. He was known as a Jian 'an figure in history, and Lu Xun rated him as "the founder of transforming Wen Jing".
At the same time, Cao Cao is good at calligraphy, especially at decorating grass. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang named it a "wonderful product" in Sichuan.