Cao Cao deserves to be the core figure of Jian 'an literature, and his poetry and prose creation has achieved a generation of ethos. He wrote current events with the ancient poems of Yuefu, which not only created a new style of Yuefu poetry creation, but also provided important experience and enlightenment for the further development of later poems. In the five-character era, he made the four-character poems glow again, which had a positive impact on the creation of four-character poems by Ji Kang, Tao Yuanming and Han Yu.
Cao Pi's Song of Yan adopts the first-person narrator, and the whole poem uses seven words, each sentence rhymes, which occupies an important position in the development history of China's seven-word poetry. Cao Pi is also good at prose and ci-fu. His exposition in Dian Lun is longer than the discussion. His representative works are Yu Wu Shu and Yu Wu Shu.
Cao Zhi was the first writer to write a five-character poem vigorously. Zhong Rong called him "with extraordinary character and words of Hua Mao". Cao Zhi pushed the development of literati's five-character poems to an unprecedented peak, marking the complete maturity of literati's five-character poems. Zhong Rong called it "the outstanding person in Jian 'an". Luo Shen Fu is his masterpiece. In addition, there are "emphasizing books and Wuji", "books and Yang Dezu" and "seeking self-test table".
Kong Rong's prose collections include On Xiaozhang Sheng's Book and Praise Mi Fei's Table. Liu Xie called RoyceWong the "crown of seven sons", among which three are the most famous, and Ode to the Building is the most famous. Chen Lin has Drinking Horses in the Cave of the Great Wall. Ruan Yu has "driven out of the north gate". Liu Zhen's To My Brother is the best. Xu Gan is the author of On China.