Cao Pi was a great emperor in the ancient history of China. In the history of thousands of years in China, there are many emperors and great writers, but few people can combine them, among which Cao Pi is the most representative.
The Three Kingdoms is a very special era, because of political turmoil, a large number of people were displaced, and heroes from all walks of life ran on the road. However, in this chaos, literature has made extraordinary development. Especially in the Cao Wei regime, this phenomenon is more obvious. Because in previous times, the north of China was the economic, political and cultural center at that time, and many places in the south were underdeveloped. Cao Wei's regime not only occupied the central area of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but also gave great protection to literature because of the earliest reunification of the northern region. Cao Cao himself was a very great writer. At that time, many scholars scrambled to go to the place ruled by Cao Cao. Cao Pi was born and grew up in this extremely strong cultural atmosphere. He was surrounded by the best writers in China at that time every day. Because of cleverness and acquired training, Cao Pi was very literate when he was very young. When he grew up, Cao Pi wrote many articles and poems with new themes.
Cao Pi was the first great poet in the Three Kingdoms period and the first literary criticism monograph in the history of China literature, which was ahead of the times. His works not only show a lot of national spirit, but also describe the love between men and women, and even describe the thinking of women in boudoir, covering a wide range.
When Cao Pi was king of Wei, he devoted himself to literary research. In order to show his superior talent in front of Cao Cao, he wrote a collection of essays involving national society, morality and politics. One of them has been handed down since the income of later generations, and the contents of other essays have been lost.
The collection of essays is called Dian Lun, and one of them is called Essays. There are several viewpoints in Dian Lun.
First, about the use of literature. He believes that the role of literature is no less than other methods of governing the country. This concept is an impact on the old tradition, breaking the previous situation of belittling literature. Cao Pi's thought is the literary consciousness of ancient literati. Although there is no more content in the paper, it is still very meaningful to put forward opinions.
Secondly, he believes that the style of writing is the core of the article, and all kinds of styles are exquisite, and they cannot be falsely piled up and demanded. Majestic and gentle and quiet are two different styles, and the personality style of the article can be roughly divided into these two directions. It is pointed out that literature should have style and personality, specifically, the article should reflect personal style and personality characteristics, for example, Cao Cao and his son also have different styles, which is also in line with the characteristics of Cao Wei literati advocating nature at that time. This view is very famous. These theories, which emphasize literati and personality, still have educational significance.
Thirdly, he criticized the bad habits in ancient times, thinking that we should not blindly respect the ancient and belittle the present, criticizing the habit of mutual exclusion between scholars and scholars, and thinking that scholars and scholars should learn from each other.
Before Cao Wei, the development of literature was restricted by Confucian classics. Even the Han Fu in its heyday was degraded by the current dynasty.
The thought in Cao Pi's classical theory is actually a sublimation of literature, and he links his creation with the value of personal life character. Cao Pi warned literati to abandon the idea that literature only benefits money and material things, and that literature should not serve utility, but should strive to improve personal cultural accomplishment.
Before this, ancient literature may still be in a state of chaos, and many ideas are only scattered and there is no systematic theory. This collection of essays by Cao Pi expounds the methods of literary criticism in a true, objective and professional way.
Cao Pi's famous sentences
Cao Pi was a great writer in ancient China. Even as an emperor, it does not affect his position in the history of literature. On the contrary, Cao Pi used his special status to make friends with a large number of literati.
When Cao Pi was very young, in order to cultivate him, Cao Cao found several gifted children to learn from Cao Pi, and later slowly invited some teachers with high attainments in the field of literature to teach Cao Pi. In the process of growing up, Cao Pi's friends were also some famous literati at that time, such as RoyceWong and Serina Liu, who were very famous in history.
Cao Pi's talent was extremely high, and he was constantly influenced by such a strong cultural atmosphere, so Cao Pi later became a very famous writer in history. His achievements in literature surpassed those of many very prestigious people of his time. Later generations called Cao Pi, Cao Zhi's younger brother Cao Zhi and Cao Pi's father Cao as "Three Caos" to commemorate their position in the history of literature.
In Cao Pi's short life, he created a large number of works covering a wide range. In his works, he not only expresses patriotic feelings and national spirit, but also describes a lot of love between young men and women. He can write from the perspective of a country and a scholar, or from the perspective of a young man with low social status. He not only created a new field of literature, but also made great achievements in the traditional field of literature.
In his works, a large number of famous sentences have emerged: articles, great cause of governing the country, immortal events; Scholars despise each other since ancient times; There are cliffs in the mountains, branches in the trees, worries, and people don't know.