Bright and clean as the sunrise, fresh as the new lotus blooming between the blue waves.
This sentence comes from Cao Zhi's Luo Shen Fu.
Luo Shen Fu is a masterpiece of Cao Zhi, a writer of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms period. Cao Zhi imitated the description of Wushan Goddess in Song Yu's Goddess Fu in the Warring States Period and told the story of his meeting with Luoshen on the bank of Luoshui River. He used the Song Fu for reference in story plot and character description. This poem fictionalizes the author's own meeting with Luo Shen and their yearning and love for each other. The image of Luo Shen is absolutely beautiful, and the love between man and god is vague, but it can't be combined because of the different ways of man and god, and finally expresses infinite sadness and disappointment. The whole article can be roughly divided into six paragraphs: in the first paragraph, when the writer returned to the fief from Luoyang, he saw "beauty" Fu Fei standing on the cliff; The second paragraph is about the beauty of Fu Fei's clothing. In the third paragraph, the author loves Luo Shen very much. She knows manners and is good at words. Although the author has expressed her true feelings and gave her a token, she is worried about being cheated and loves her very much. In the fourth paragraph, I wrote about the situation after Luo Shen felt sincere about the "king"; The fifth paragraph is the meaning of the whole article; In the sixth paragraph, the author wrote goodbye and missed Luo Shen. All the poems are colorful, delicate in description, rich in imagination, full of emotions, and full of sustenance.
About the author:
Cao Zhi (192-232 65438+February 27th) was born in Dongwuyang (now Shenxian), Bozhou, Anhui. He is the third son of Cao Cao and Empress Wu Xuan. He was Wang Chen. After his death, posthumous title was also called "Si".
Cao Zhi was a famous writer of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms period. As one of the representatives and epitomizers of Jian 'an literature, he was promoted to the position of a model article in the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. His representative works include Luo Shen Fu, White Horse, Seven Wounded Poems, etc. Because of his literary attainments, later generations are called "Three Caos" with Cao Cao and Cao Pi.
His poems are good at vigorous brushwork and thrush, and have been lost in 30 volumes. Today, The Collection of Cao Zijian was compiled by Song people. Cao Zhi's prose also has the characteristics of "appealing to both refined and popular tastes and elegant style", and its genre is rich and diverse, which makes him make outstanding achievements in this respect. Xie Lingyun, a writer in the Southern Song Dynasty, commented that "there is only one stone in the world, and Cao Zijian monopolizes eight fights". Zhong Rong, the author of "Poetry", also praised Cao Zhi for his "extraordinary personality, colorful words, elegant feelings and resentment, literary talent, overflowing in the present and standing out from the crowd." As the highest-ranking poet in the book "Poetry" and the founder of China's lyrical character, he has the historical position of "a generation of poets" in the history of poetry. Wang Shizhen evaluated the poets who have lived for two thousand years since the Han and Wei Dynasties as "immortals", including Cao Zhi, Li Bai and Su Shi.