The poems of those who have an important position in history have special significance.
Today we will talk about Cao Cao and his famous poems.
Cao Cao was a famous "adulterer" in the Three Kingdoms period of the later Han Dynasty. This figure who was vilified by the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms is actually a versatile hero in real history, and his poems represent the heroic mentality of that great turmoil era.
Even, through Cao Cao's poems, we can basically understand the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms in the Later Han Dynasty.
Cao Cao wrote in Hao Li Xing: "Bones are exposed in the wild, and there are no crows in a thousand miles."
This poem was probably written around A.D. 190, just after the Yellow Scarf Uprising, followed by the struggle for hegemony in troubled times. Because of the war and famine, the once rich and stable Central Plains became a hell on earth, and the population of China dropped by 90%, leaving ten rooms and nine vacant rooms, starving everywhere. Cao Cao's poems have great realistic elements. This poem is not a literary exaggeration, but a true portrayal of the scene of the Central Plains at that time.
That is, from this time on, Cao Cao changed from a middle-level official in a system to a lean one who was committed to ending troubled times.
Cao Cao wrote in another of his famous poems "Watching the Sea": "A trip to the sun and the moon is just what it is. Xinghan is brilliant, if it is unexpected. "
This poem was written in 207 AD. At that time, after years of hard work, Cao Cao finally pacified the north and wiped out the nomadic Uhuan beyond the Great Wall. At this time, he made a great contribution to the world. Today, when his class returned to Korea near Qinhuangdao, he climbed the mountain and looked at the Bohai Sea happily, so he wrote this famous poem.
For another example, Cao Cao wrote in "Short Songs": "When drinking, life is geometric! For example, morning dew is much more difficult to go to Japan. Be generous, and your troubles will be unforgettable. How to solve your worries? Only Du Kang. Qingqing is your collar, YY is my miss. But for your sake, I've thought it over. . "
This shows the image of a gentleman with lofty sentiments and generous elegies. It can be seen that Cao Cao is in troubled times and has a high position, but he is not a heartless and heartless rogue, but an affectionate and polysemous person. He has romantic feelings and even sees through the free and easy of the world of mortals.
From another poem of Cao Cao's "Walking to the West", we can feel his sadness: "The fox died in the first hill, so the native land can be forgotten."
The meaning of this poem is: before the fox dies, he has to face the hill where he was born. How can people forget their hometown?
In our opinion, can this passionate and sad feeling be explained by a simple traitor?
Cao Cao and Liu Bei were born before the turmoil in the Han Dynasty, and they saw the last prosperity and afterglow of the Han Dynasty. At the same time, they experienced the great turmoil at the end of the Han Dynasty, and saw that the bustling city was in ruins, and countless people lay there and died, even their relatives and friends died.
In this era of rich life experience, it is not difficult for us to understand the characteristics of Cao Cao's poems that are sad and he who sees through the world. But at the same time, Cao Cao's poems are not blindly pessimistic. Behind his sadness, there is new hope. This may be the mental journey of Cao Cao's generation in that troubled times. Although the violent social unrest and ups and downs of life have affected them, they have not given up hope, and they are changing the world in their own way.