Cao Cao's poems are unpretentious and unpretentious. They won with deep affection and charm. Poetically, it is characterized by generosity and sadness.
Generosity and sadness, originally the keynote of Jian 'an literature, are the most typical and prominent in Cao Cao's poems. In terms of poetic genre, Cao Cao's Yuefu poems did not copy the rules of Han Yuefu, but developed.
For example, Lu Luxing and Good Li Xing are both elegies in Han Yuefu, but he uses old topics to express new contents. Cao Cao initiated the tradition of writing current affairs with Yuefu, which had far-reaching influence.
2. Cao Zhi
Cao Zhi's creation is divided into two periods in 220 years (twenty-five years of Jian 'an). His early poems mainly praised his ideals and ambitions, filled with optimism and romance, and full of confidence in the future; Later poems mainly express the grief and indignation caused by the contradiction between ideal and reality.
His poems not only reflect the sadness and elegance of The Book of Songs, but also contain the graceful and profound curiosity of The Songs of the South. It not only inherits the realistic brushwork of the Han Yuefu, but also retains the sentimental sentiment of nineteen ancient poems. Cao Zhi's poetry has its own distinctive and unique style, which has completed the transformation from Yuefu folk songs to literati poems.
3.cao pi
Cao Pi's poems are diverse, with five or seven words as long, popular language and folk song spirit. The technique is euphemistic and meticulous, and he is an expert in describing the love between men and women and the theme of wandering women.
Ge Yanxing was written during Cao Cao's northern expedition to Wuhuan County in the 12th year of Jian 'an, which was the highest achievement of Cao Pi's poetry. It is written in the form of seven-character rhyme, and it is the earliest and most complete seven-character rhyme in existence. From the perspective of "thinking about women", Ge Yanxing reflects the present situation of war and displacement in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and expresses the inner resentment and melancholy of men and women who were forced to separate.
The words used in the whole poem are not carved, the syllables are graceful and graceful, and the feelings flow. Some of Cao Pi's works praised by later generations were written to Wang Wei during his tenure as a corps commander of the five senses. His poems are delicate, clear and touching.
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At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the society was in turmoil. Cao Cao, a native of Guo Pei (now Bozhou) in Han Dynasty, set up Qingzhou soldiers, supported the Han Emperor, unified the north, and the society had a relatively stable environment. Both Cao Cao and his son have high literary accomplishment, and because of their advocacy, once-declining literature has a new vitality.
Cao Cao and his sons Cao Pi and Cao Zhi had a great influence on the literary world at that time. They are representatives of Jian 'an literature, and later generations collectively refer to them as "Three Caos".
In Yecheng, the capital city at that time (so the address is now Linzhang County, Hebei Province), a large number of literati gathered. New breakthroughs have been made in poetry, prose and prose creation. Poetry, in particular, absorbs the advantages of folk songs in the Han Dynasty, is full of love and words, has a generous and sad artistic style, and truly reflects the social reality and the thoughts and feelings of literati in the late Han Dynasty.
Under the impetus of Cao Cao and his son, Jian 'an literature, represented by San Cao, was formed, which was called Jian 'an style in history and left a glorious stroke in the history of literature.
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