"White Horse" is a lyric poem of the zaju "Seven Stars", also called "Ranger", because it describes the loyalty and courage of a frontier ranger. The author always has the ambition of "I would rather die than go to a hard place" and the experience of joining the army. It may also be his own situation to write about the ranger. This poem describes and praises a young hero in the border area who has high martial arts skills and loves his country and people. One refers to his brother Cao Zhang, and the other refers to Huo Qubing, a general in title of generals in ancient times in the Western Han Dynasty. In order to express the author's ambition to serve the country.
The heroic image in this poem is not only the poet's self-portrayal, but also embodies and shines with the glory of the times, which is an important representative work of Cao Zhi in his early period. Youth is powerful. The tortuous poems created a vivid and touching image of a young patriotic hero.
Cao Cao:
Cao Cao (155-0315,220), a native of Guo Peiqiao County (now Bozhou, Anhui Province), was a politician, strategist, writer, calligrapher and poet at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the son of Qiu Cao Song and the founder of Cao Wei regime. Cao Cao was born in a eunuch family. After the Three Kingdoms called him Cao Can, Cao Cao's father Cao Song was the adopted son of eunuch Cao Teng, and Cao Teng served four generations of emperors, which was quite famous.
When Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty was appointed, Cao Song succeeded Cao Tenghou and became a courtier of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty. In his youth, Cao Cao was resourceful, alert, resourceful, chivalrous, unruly and unlearned. Therefore, people at that time did not think that he had any special talents. Only Qiao Xuan and others in the beam think he is different. Qiao Xuan said to Cao Cao, "There will be chaos in the world, and people who are doomed can't help it. Who can be safe? "