Seven-step Poetry is a famous work by Cao Zhi, a famous scholar of Wei State in the Three Kingdoms period. This poem uses the seeds and beans from the same root to compare the half-brothers, and uses the seeds and beans to compare the brothers who killed their younger brothers, vividly and simply reflecting the cruel struggle within the feudal ruling group and the poet's own difficult situation and depressed and resentful feelings.
The original "Seven Steps Poetry" boiled beans as soup, and Cao Zhi's "Seven Steps Poetry-Western Oil Painting"
Think of it as juice. Honey burns under the pot, and beans cry in the pot. We are born from the same root, so why rush to speculate with each other? "Seven Steps Poetry" was abbreviated as boiling beans and burning beans by later generations, and the beans cried in the kettle. This is the same root, killing each other.
Version 1 (original version by Cao Zhi): beans are cooked in a pot, and the residue of beans is filtered, leaving bean juice and making paste food. The beanstalk burns under the pot, and the beans cry in the pot. It says: We are born from the same root. How can you torture me in such a hurry? Version 2 (later abbreviated version): When cooking beans, use beanstalk as fuel, and the beans cry in the pot. We are brothers. Why are you so anxious to hurt me? (This poem uses seeds and beans from the same root to compare half-brothers, and uses seeds and beans to compare brothers of the same flesh and blood to kill their younger brothers, which shows the author's dissatisfaction and disgust at the oppression and cannibalism between brothers. )
This allusion comes from Liu Yiqing's Shi Shuo Xin Yu Literature in the Southern Dynasties: trying to get Dong to write a seven-step poem, and if it fails, implementing Dafa. The answer is a poem: "Boil beans as soup and soak them as juice. Glutinous rice is burned in the kettle, and beans weep in the kettle; This is the same root, why rush to speculate with each other? " The emperor was deeply ashamed. Cao Zhi, the fourth son of Cao Cao, was gifted since childhood and loved by his father. After Cao Cao's death, his younger brother Cao Pi became the emperor of Wei. Because Cao Zhi and Cao Xiong (the fifth son) didn't visit Cao Cao when they died, Cao Pi asked them again. Cao Xiong committed suicide because of fear. But Cao Zhi was brought into the imperial court. Finally, Bian Shi, the mother of four brothers Xelloss, began to plead, and Xelloss reluctantly gave Cao Azhi a chance to blurt out a poem within seven steps, otherwise he would be killed without forgiveness. Cao Zhi wrote this seven-step poem. Cao Pi understood the truth in Cao Zhi's poems: if he killed Cao Zhi, he would be laughed at by the world, so he let Cao Zhi go.