Cao Cao's Walking Out of Xiamen to View the Sea
Jieshi is in the east to view the sea.
where there is water, there are mountains and islands.
there are many trees and plenty of herbs.
the autumn wind is bleak and the waves are surging.
the trip to the sun and the moon, if out of it.
if the star is brilliant, it will come out of it.
fortunately, even! Sing with ambition.
in the twelfth year of Jian' an (27), Cao Cao led a great army to conquer Wuhuan, a great disaster in the northeast at that time. This is an important war in Cao Cao's great cause of reunifying the north. On the way to the expedition, he wrote the Yuefu poem "Walking out of Xiamen" (belonging to "Harmony Song, Sediao Qu"). This group of poems consists of five parts, beginning with the word "Yan", that is, a preface poem. The following articles are named after the poems respectively, which are Guancanghai, Winter in October, He Shuo Han (also called "Different Soil") and Guithough Shou. From the perspective of music melody, the five parts are a whole, and from the perspective of lyrics content, the four parts can be independent.
"Watching the Sea" was written in September this year when Cao Cao climbed Jieshi Mountain on the way to Wu Huan's victory class. This four-character poem depicts the grandeur of the motherland's rivers and mountains through the natural scenery seen by the poet climbing mountains and looking at the sea. It not only depicts the moving image of the mountains and the sea, but also expresses the heroic and optimistic enterprising spirit of the poet. It is a famous work describing natural scenery in the Jian 'an era, and it is also one of the earliest masterpieces in Chinese classical landscape poems. In the first two sentences, "Jieshi is in the east to see the sea", the poet came to the foot of Jieshi Mountain and climbed to see the sea at the time of his northern expedition. Jieshi Mountain was originally located in the southwest of Laoting County, Hebei Province (in the northwest of Changli County, Hebei Province). It was still on land in the Han Dynasty and faced the Bohai Sea. Due to geological changes in the Six Dynasties, it sank into the sea. When the poet climbed Jieshi Mountain and looked down at the sea, he saw: "Where is the water, where are the mountains and islands?". Lian, water waves are turbulent. The towering appearance of the island. The poet climbed high and looked far, and all he could see was an endless sea, and the islands in the sea stood high. What a vast and spectacular sight it is! In history, Qin Shihuang and Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty visited here, carving stones and watching the sea. Now, the poet is standing in the place where Qin Huang and Hanwu travel, commanding, looking at the vast sea connected by water and sky and the towering islands in the sea, thinking that the Central Plains region has been pacified, the northern expedition to Wuhuan has also won a decisive victory, and the reunification of the north is about to be realized. How excited he is! At this time, the poet's eyes were fixed on the island at sea, and there was a scene full of vitality in front of him: "There are many trees and many herbs. The autumn wind is bleak, and Hongbo surges. " The trees are full of grass, and they grow very luxuriantly. A bleak autumn wind blows, and the waves surge on the sea. Although the bleak autumn wind gives people a sense of sadness and killing, the vigorous grass shows its heroic nature; Hongbo is surging, and the more you see its life! This is a true description of the natural environment and a concrete portrayal of the poet's subjective feelings. After Cao Cao won a series of wars, he felt that his great achievements were as full of vitality as the trees and flowers, and he was also full of vitality for the surging sea. Below, the poet expanded his rich imagination, further describing the magnificent spirit and broad mind of the sea, which embraces the sun and the moon. "The trip to the sun and the moon, if out of it; Xinghan is brilliant, if it is out of it. " The movement of the sun and the moon seems to haunt the embrace of the sea, and the brilliant galactic stars seem to be wrapped in the mother's belly of the sea. Look, this is the spirit of the sea, the mind of the sea. It's so spectacular and magnificent.
The poem "Looking at the Sea" is full of scenery, in which there are no words to express feelings directly, but reading the whole poem can still make people feel the poet's feelings deeply entrusted by it. Through the poet's vivid description of the rough sea, we seem to see Cao Cao's great ambition and grand mind to forge ahead and unite the country, and touch the flow of his thoughts and feelings in a typical environment as a poet, politician and strategist. The whole poem is simple in language, rich in imagination, magnificent, desolate and tragic, which has been greatly appreciated by readers of all ages. Shen Deqian commented that this poem "has a cosmic atmosphere" in "The Source of Ancient Poetry". This is very accurate.
Cao Cao (155-22): Wei Wudi. Politician, strategist and poet in the Three Kingdoms. The word Meng De, nicknamed A Yun, was born in Peiguo Qiaoxian County (now Bozhou City, Anhui Province).
at the beginning, Xiao Lian was appointed as the northern commandant of Luoyang, and moved to Dun. Later, in the war of suppressing the yellow turban insurrectionary uprising and crusade against knowing Zhuo, the military strength was gradually expanded. In the third year of Chuping (A.D. 192), it was a part of Qingzhou Yellow Scarf Army, which was divided and lured by Zhou state animal husbandry, and was compiled as "Qingzhou Army". In the first year of Jian 'an (196), he welcomed the Emperor Xu (now Xuchang, Henan). From then on, he gave orders in his name and successively flattened the separatist forces such as Lu Bu. After the battle of Guandu broke Yuan Shao, a separatist force in Hebei, the northern part of China was gradually unified. In the 13th year of Jian 'an, he took the position of Prime Minister and led the army south, which was defeated by the allied forces of Sun Quan and Liu Bei in Chibi. Seal Wang Wei. The son Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor, and pursued him as Emperor Wu.
He cultivated land in the north and built water conservancy projects, which solved the problem of shortage of rations and played a certain role in the recovery of agricultural production. Employ people on their merits, attract the middle and lower classes of the landlord class, restrain the strongmen and strengthen centralization. The social economy of the ruled area has been restored and developed. The method of elite soldiers, the author of "Sun Tzu's brief explanation", "The Book of War" and other books. Good poems, such as "Journey in the Hao Li" and "Watching the Sea", express their political ambitions and reflect the miserable life of the people at the end of the Han Dynasty, which are magnificent, generous and sad. Prose is also neat and tidy. His works include "Wei Wudi Collection", which has been lost, and has been compiled by Ming people. There is a typesetting copy of Cao Cao Ji today. (Cihai, 1989).
Mao spent more than 3 years in the imperial army, and he never gave up his book. Books talk about military tactics, and nights think about classics. Climbing to the top must be endowed, and new poems and strings are made into movements. ("Wei Shu")
Shang Yahao's poetry and calligraphy works, although in the army, can't put it down. Every time I set a province, I calmly say: if people are less eager to learn, they will think professionally, and if they are long, they will forget; When I grow up, I can be a diligent scholar, just me and Yuan Boye. ("Dian Lun Zi Xu", Yuan Boye's famous legacy, Yuan Shaocong's brother. )
Cao Gong is ancient and straight, and he has a sad sentence. (Zhong Rong's "Poetry")