Meaning: When cooking beans to make bean soup, I want to filter out the residue of the beans and leave the bean juice for making soup. The bean straw is burning under the pot, and the beans are crying inside the pot. Beans and bean straw originally grew from the same root. How could the bean straw cook the beans so urgently?
Original text of "Poetry in Seven Steps"
Poem in Seven Steps
Cao Zhi
Boil the beans to make a soup, and strain the bean sprouts to make the juice.
The leaves are burning under the cauldron, and the beans are weeping in the cauldron.
Since they originate from the same root, why rush to interfere with each other? Comments on "Seven Steps of Poetry"
⑴ Hold: used.
⑵Gang: Paste food made from meat or vegetables.
⑶ Roll: filter.
⑷Shu (soybean): beans. This sentence means to filter out the residue of the beans and leave the bean juice for soup.
⑸踁: The remaining stems of legumes after threshing.
⑹cauldron: pot.
⑺Ran: Burn
⑻Cry: Cry quietly
⑼Ben: Originally, originally.
⑽Jian: suffering, here refers to persecution.
⑾He: Why bother. Appreciation of "Seven Steps Poetry"
This poem uses the roots of jus and beans to describe brothers with the same father and mother, and uses the beans fried to describe the brother Cao Pi who is the same flesh and blood brother and harms his younger brother. It expresses strong dissatisfaction with Cao Pi, vividly and profoundly reflects the cruel struggle within the feudal ruling group and the poet's own difficult situation, depressed and angry thoughts and feelings.
This poem uses fried beans as a metaphor to accuse Cao Pi of cruel persecution of himself and other brothers. The tone is tactful and deep, and there are reminders and exhortations in the sarcasm. On the one hand, this reflects Cao Zhi's intelligence, on the other hand, it also reflects Cao Pi's cruelty in persecuting his brothers. The beauty of this poem lies in its clever metaphor and clear meaning. Beans and bean straw grow from the same root, just like brothers. When the bean straw burns, the beans in the pot turn over and "cry". This is a very appropriate and touching metaphor for brothers killing each other.
The creative background of "Seven Steps of Poetry"
In the first month of the first year of Huangchu (220), the sixty-six-year-old Cao Cao died of illness, and Cao Pi was promoted from the crown prince to the king of Wei; in October of the same year, Han Dynasty Emperor Xian was forced to abdicate the throne, and Cao Pi ascended the throne and proclaimed himself Emperor Wen of Wei. Because Cao Pi couldn't let go of the experience of fighting for the title of crown prince, he still harbored grudges against Cao Zhi after he became emperor. He was worried that his knowledgeable and politically ambitious younger brother would threaten his throne, so he thought of ways to get rid of him. Cao Zhi knew that his brother had deliberately framed him, but he could not excuse himself, so he had to write a poem in seven steps in extreme grief and anger. Introduction to the author of "Seven-Step Poetry"
Cao Zhi, courtesy name Zijian, was born in Qiaojun, Peiguo (now a native of Bozhou, Anhui). Writer during the Three Kingdoms period. He is Cao Cao's fourth son, Cao Pi's half-brother, and is named King Chen. Because of his talent and learning, he was favored by Cao Cao in his early years and wanted to make him a prince. When Cao Pi and Cao Rui became emperors, they were highly jealous and died in depression.
He is an outstanding representative of Jian'an literature. He has more than 90 existing poems, most of which are five-character poems. Cao Zhi's poems make good use of metaphors and have eloquent diction. They relatively comprehensively represent the achievements and characteristics of Jian'an literature and have an important influence on the development of five-character poetry.