Cao Zijian is Cao Zhi, whose name is Zijian. Cao Zhi was a famous writer in the Three Kingdoms period. As one of the representatives and epitomizers of Jian 'an literature, he was promoted to the position of an article model in the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties.
His representative works include Ode to Luoshen, White Horse, Seven Sorrow Poems and so on. Later generations called him "Three Caos" together with Cao Cao and Cao Pi because of his literary attainments. His poems are famous for their vigorous brushwork and colorful ci, and there are 3 volumes left, which have been lost. Today, the Collection of Cao Zijian is compiled by Song people.
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Cao Zhi's creation is divided into two periods, with the year of 22 (twenty-five years of Jian 'an) as the boundary. The early poems mainly sang his ideals and ambitions, filled with optimism and romance, and full of confidence in the future; Later poems mainly express the grief and indignation aroused by the contradiction between ideal and reality.
His poems not only embody the elegance of the Book of Songs, but also contain the profound wonders of The Songs of the South. It not only inherits the pen power of the Han Yuefu to reflect the reality, but also retains the sentimental appeal of Nineteen Ancient Poems. Cao Zhi's poems have their own distinctive and unique style, which completes the transformation from Yuefu folk songs to literati poems.
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