Seven-step Poetry: Ancient Poems by Cao Zhi 1 Seven-step Poetry
Author: Cao Zhi
Boil beans for soup,
Think of it as juice.
The mash burns under the pot,
The beans are crying in the kettle.
Originally born from the same root,
Why are you in such a hurry to blow each other up?
To annotate ...
Taste: Try it.
Hold: Used.
Gēng: Make mushy food with meat or vegetables.
Lu: Filter.
Drum (G incarnation): beans. Filter out the bean dregs and leave the bean juice to make soup.
Wax: the stem left by threshing beans.
Kettle: pot.
Burning: burning.
Ben: So, so.
Frye: Torture.
Xiangjian: refers to mutual destruction of the whole poem, expressing Cao Zhi's dissatisfaction with Cao Pi.
Cry: Cry quietly.
H: why?
translate
Boil the beans in a pot, filter out the bean dregs, and leave the bean juice as paste food. The beanstalk burns under the pot, and the beans cry in the pot. It says: We are born from the same root. How can you torture me in such a hurry?
(This poem uses melon seeds and beans of the same root to compare the mother and brother of the same father, and uses melon seeds and beans to compare the brothers of the same flesh and blood to kill their younger brothers, which shows the author's dissatisfaction and disgust at bullying and killing each other between brothers. )
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This poem is written in a purely metaphorical way with simple language. The meaning is clear and needs no further explanation. Just a little dredging in individual words and phrases, its significance is self-evident. The author's clever metaphor and clever language blurted out in an instant, which was really amazing. For thousands of years, the phrase "We are born from the same root, so why should we fry each other" has become a common language for people to persuade them to avoid killing each other, which shows that this poem is widely circulated among the people.
Through the daily phenomenon of burning beans and boiling beans, Cao Zhi's inner grief and indignation were expressed.
Truth degree
The authenticity of the seven-step poem has always been controversial. Among them, Guo Moruo's theory is more reasonable. He thought of Cao Zhi's seven-step poem: "Look closely, I'm afraid there are many collateral components." This novel was created because later generations sympathized with Cao Zhi and were dissatisfied with Cao Pi. In fact, if Cao Pi wants to kill Cao Zhi, why use forcing him to write poetry as an excuse? It's not that he doesn't know. And if you really want to kill him, you can still kill him after writing the poem. Why should we be "deeply ashamed" just because we are laughed at? So the authenticity of this poem is really less. But because of writing this poem, Cao Zhi maintained sympathy for thousands of years, and Cao Pi was excluded for thousands of years. This is really the so-called' who is behind'. " However, some people questioned his statement. Some people say that Cao Pi made Cao Zhi's seven steps into a poem just as an excuse to kill him. He thought that Cao Zhi would never succeed, but he didn't expect Cao Zhi's talent to be so outstanding. At that time, even Cao Pi himself was a little touched. In order to keep his reputation and stabilize the world, Cao Zhi was released.
Seven-step Poems Two Wishes of Cao Zhi's Ancient Poems
Cao Zhi (Three Kingdoms Wei)
Boil beans and burn beans, and the beans cry in the pot.
We are born from the same root. What's the hurry?
To annotate ...
1. pot (f incarnation): ancient pot.
2. Fried: suffering, metaphorical persecution.
Brief analysis
According to Shi Shuo Xin Yu Literature, Cao Zhi's brother Cao Pi wanted to persecute Cao Zhi after he proclaimed himself emperor, so he ordered Cao Zhi to write a poem in a short time and see if he could do it. As a result, Cao Zhi sang this seven-step poem. The poet used the metaphor of fried beans to accuse Cao Pi of cruel persecution of himself and other brothers.
The first two sentences, "Boil beans and burn beans, and beans cry in the kettle", describe the sharp contradiction between "beans" and "beans" and the cruel persecution of beans by beans. The last two sentences are "born from the same root, why speculate with each other!" Make the finishing point and prompt the theme of the poem. The word "the same root" is a pun. On the surface, it means that "glutinous rice" and "beans" grow on the same root. Actually, they were born to the same parents as xelloss, and asked xelloss why he was so anxious about his younger brother and sister.
The metaphor of this poem is very apt, simple and vivid. Although it is still difficult to determine whether this poem itself is really written by Cao Zhi, it reflects the internal contradictions of Cao Wei's ruling group with vivid images, and it is indeed a good poem.