Three Cao refers to Cao Cao and his sons Cao Pi and Cao Zhi in the Han and Wei Dynasties. Because the political status and literary achievements between their father and son had great influence on the literary world at that time, and they were all representatives of Jian 'an literature, so later generations collectively called them "Three Caos".
Cao Cao (a famous politician, strategist, writer and calligrapher at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the founder of Cao Wei regime in the Three Kingdoms period)
He was an outstanding writer in Jian 'an period, a pioneer in creating a new situation of Jian 'an literature, and created a new atmosphere of Jian 'an literature with a delicate style of writing. The main poems are Life of a Turtle, Short Songs and Looking at the Sea.
Cao Pi (a famous politician and writer in the Three Kingdoms period, the founding emperor of Cao Wei and the son of Cao Cao)
He is good at poetry and songs, and his representative works include Yan Ge Xing and Wu Zhi Shu. Among them, Yan Geling used seven words and rhymed every sentence, which played an important role in the development history of China's seven-word poems.
Cao Zhi (a famous writer of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms, a representative of Jian 'an literature, the son of Cao Cao and the brother of Cao Pi)
He was the first writer who created five-character poems vigorously, which pushed the development of five-character poems of literati to an unprecedented peak and marked the complete maturity of five-character poems of literati. His prose and ci-fu also show high ideological and artistic quality, among which "Ode to Luo Shen" is beautiful, "Rebuilding with Wu Ji" and "Writing with Yang Zu" are two famous prose poems.