So basically all Cao Cao's poems are like this!
Ju Chi Shou
Although the tortoise has a long life, it still has its time.
A poisonous snake flew in the fog and was finally covered with dust.
The old horse crouches, aiming at thousands of miles;
The martyrs were full of courage in their later years.
The surplus and contraction period is not only in the sky;
Blessings that nourish grace can last forever.
Fortunately, even! Sing with ambition.
See the boundless ocean
On the east coast, climb Jieshi Mountain to see the vast sea.
The sea is so vast that the islands stand high on the sea.
Trees and paraquat are very lush. Autumn wind makes trees make sad sounds, and the sea is surging.
The movement of the sun and the moon seems to come from the vast ocean.
A trip to the sun and the moon, if unexpected;
Han is a talented star, if you take him by surprise.
Fortunately, even! Sing with ambition.
Poems such as "although your life is long" are like this! !
The poetic style "four-character poem" refers to a poem composed of four words. Four-character poem refers to a poem written in four sentences, which runs through the capital. This is reflected in the ancient songs and rhymes of Zhouyi. The Book of Songs, China's first poetry collection, contains three-character, five-character, seven-character, eight-character and nine-character sentences, but they are basically four-character.
So four fonts prevailed in the Western Zhou Dynasty. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were not many other poems except Chu Ci. There were many four-character poems in the Western Han Dynasty, such as Lin Yi. Although it was a poem, it was very poetic, similar to the Book of Songs. Yang Shen praised and lamented "quaint and mysterious" in Ming Dynasty. Although there are also five-character styles in folk songs in the Western Han Dynasty, four-character styles are still used in literati's works. Wei Meng's satirical poems can be taken as a representative. Liu Xie once praised it as "following the track of Zhou people" But after the Eastern Han Dynasty, five-character poems quickly replaced four-character poems. Zhong Rong's "Preface to Poetry" said that people talk about four words, "All bitter words are complicated and small, so it is rare to learn from them in past dynasties. The essence of the five words in literary works is that many works have flavor. " After that, there are not many four fonts handed down from generation to generation, and there are even fewer excellent works. Cao Cao's "Out of Xiamen", short songs, and Tao Yuanming's "Stop the Cloud" can inherit the heritage of the Book of Songs and can be called a four-word work. Repeated recitation in chapters is "only those who can blend words and meanings, and righteousness comes from temperament" (Wu Ne's Preface to Article Argument). In addition, Ji Kang's poem "Grief and Anger", Han Yu's poem "Yuanhe Shengde" and Liu Zongyuan's poem "Ping Huai Yi Ya" have also made some achievements, and were once considered as "stern and powerful, which is beyond the reach of future generations" (Preface to Article Argumentation). In the Song Dynasty, Hu Yigui also wrote four-character poems, but compared with the treasures in the Book of Songs, the taste of poems is quite different, and the length is long, so some of them are called four-character poems variants.
Four-character poem is the earliest poetic style in ancient times. Four-character poems are the basic genres in The Book of Songs, such as national style, Xiaoya and elegance. In other ancient books of the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, such as Mai Xiuge in Historical Records, Notes on Song Chengzi, and Zi Chanyong in Zuo Zhuan, etc. Four fonts are also dominant. It can be seen that from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, the most popular poetic style is four-character poetry, whether it is the upper or lower class of society, whether it is entertainment or sacrificial occasions.
After the Spring and Autumn Period, four-character poems gradually declined, but many poets still wrote four-character poems. For example, Cao Cao and his son in the Three Kingdoms period, Ji Kang in the late Wei Dynasty, Lu Ji and Lu Yun in the Western Jin Dynasty, and Tao Yuanming in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. At the same time, there have also been some excellent works, such as Cao Cao's "Walking out of Xiamen, Although the tortoise lives long": "The old horse crouches and aims at a thousand miles. In the year of martyrs, go forward bravely. " People have been chanting it ever since.