Cao Zhi often uses plants as metaphor symbols. In "Wang Biao", the white horse "Zhuanpeng" symbolizes a wandering wanderer, and "Duckweed" symbolizes a sad woman whose life experience is wandering and helpless. Although "Elegy for Couples" is sung, it metaphors his life experience of wandering abroad, contains grief and indignation that he has never met before, and triggers a rich and profound imagination.
Especially in "The Poem of Abandoning a Wife", the poet sighed and sang: "Pomegranate is planted in the vestibule, and the green leaves shake pale green. Danhua is burning and brilliant. Glorious leaves are displaced, and you can be in a beautiful place. Birds come and go, flapping their wings and moaning. What is a sad husband? Danhua can't do it. "
Pomegranate is sung throughout, but its profound and rich meanings are all beyond words: beautiful pomegranate flowers can be used to describe the beautiful and delicious appearance of beautiful women, and does the gaudiness of pomegranate symbolize the tragic fate of beautiful women being abandoned because they have no children? Further exploration: personal experience, hardships, life thinking and emotional sadness all reside in it.
It can be seen that the description of people, things, things and scenery in Cao Zhi's works lies not in itself, but in the meaning of life it carries, and the poet's thinking and anxiety about himself, his nation and even the fate of mankind. This is the so-called aesthetic image in ancient literary theory.
Cao Zhi s Influence on Five-character Poems;
Cao Zhi was the first literati who wrote five-character poems vigorously. He has more than 90 poems, including more than 60 five-character poems. His poems not only embody the elegance of The Book of Songs, but also contain the profound and strange interest of The Songs of the South. It not only inherits the brushwork of reflecting reality in Han Yuefu, but also retains the warm and sad artistic conception of 19 ancient poems.
Cao Zhi's poetry has its own distinctive and unique style, which has completed the transformation from Yuefu folk songs to literati poems. This is the cause of an era, but it was completed through Cao Zhicai.
Cao Cao transformed Wuyan Yuefu and created the generous and tragic style of Wuyan's poetry. Cao Pi enhanced the lyricism of Wuyan's poems and promoted the formation of his gorgeous style. Cao Zhi consolidated his position and created many schools of Wuyan poetry, which had a great influence on the emergence of specialized poetry later.