Yan Ge Xing Cao Pi
The autumn wind is bleak, the weather is cool, and the vegetation is shaking and the dew turns to frost.
The flock of swallows bid farewell and return to Yan Nanxiang, thinking about you and leaving you heartbroken.
I miss my hometown so much, why should I leave it somewhere else?
The humble concubine stays alone in the empty room. She worries about you and misses you.
Unconsciously, her clothes are stained with tears.
The sound of the piano and strings are used to clear the business, but the short songs and slight chants cannot be long.
The bright moon shines brightly on my bed, and the stars are drifting west into the night.
The morning glory and the weaver girl look at each other from a distance, how can you live alone in the river?
This is the first of two songs in Cao Pi's "Yan Ge Xing". "Yan Ge Xing" is a Yuefu title, which belongs to the "Ping Tiao Song" in "Xiang He Ge". It is similar to "Qi Yu Xing" and "Wu Chu Xing". They all reflect the life of their respective regions and have their own characteristics. Musical characteristics of the tune. Yan (Yān) was the name of a vassal state from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It governed the area around present-day Beijing, northern Hebei, and southwestern Liaoning. This is the border area between the Han people and the northern ethnic minorities. Wars have often occurred since the Qin and Han Dynasties. Therefore, the rulers over the years have sent heavy troops to guard here. Of course, there are also a lot of various kinds of military services such as building cities and transferring transportation. . Taking recent facts as an example, Cao Cao's Northern Expedition to Wuhuan in the twelfth year of Jian'an (207) took place in the northern part of the ancient Yan Kingdom in the present-day Xingcheng area of ??Liaoning Province. Novels, poems, and literary works that reflect the suffering of war and labor in this region. As early as the Qin Dynasty, there was a folk song like "Be careful not to raise a boy when you give birth to a girl, and use your breasts to feed a girl. When you don't see the Great Wall, the bones are supporting each other." In the Han Dynasty, there was even a famous "Drinking Horse Great Wall Cave". Cao Pi's "Yan Ge Xing" is the inheritance and development of this kind of literary novels and poems in terms of ideological content. Guo Maoqian's "Collection of Yuefu Poems" quoted from "Yuefu Jietie": "The two songs of Emperor Wen of Wei, 'Autumn Wind' and 'Farewell Day', are about changing the time sequence and not returning from the service. The woman complained about the absence and had nothing to complain about." He also quoted from "Yuefu Guang". "Title" said: "Yan is the name of a place. It is said that a good man served in Yan, and this is why he sang it." This way of understanding the content of novels, poems and literary works is correct. There are no ancient lyrics in "Yan Ge Xing", so this tune may have been originated by Cao Pi. This novel, poetry, and literary work reflects the historical phenomenon of the four hundred years since the Qin and Han Dynasties, and it is also the social reality of the Jian'an period in which he lived. It shows the author's concern and sympathy for the sufferings of the lower class people.