Cao Cao.
Cao Cao (155-22) was a politician, strategist and writer in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The original name is Xiahou, the word Meng De, and the nickname A Yun. He is a native of Pei Guoqiao County (now Bo County, Anhui Province) and was born into a big bureaucratic landlord family, the eldest son. Because his father, Cao Song, is the adopted son of Cao Teng, a regular servant in China, he changed his surname to Cao. Because of this relationship, Cao Cao had the opportunity to contact the children of bureaucrats since childhood.
Yuan Shao, the future arch-rival, is also a friend of Cao Cao when he was young. Cao Cao is seven feet long, with fine eyes and long beard. Since childhood, I have been unrestrained, but I am very talented, resourceful and good at improvising. At that time, there was a famous person in Runan who was good at commenting on characters, named Xu Shao, who commented on Cao Cao as "a capable minister in managing the world and a treacherous man in troubled times".
"Short Songs" Han Dynasty: Cao Cao
When drinking is a song, life is geometric! Morning dew, for example, is much harder to go to Japan. Be generous, and worry is unforgettable. How to solve your worries? Only Du Kang.
the green lady is leisurely in my heart. But for your sake, I have been thoughtfully so far. A group of deer, yo, ate the Mugwort in that yuan ye. I have a batch of good guests, playing the lute and playing the lute.
when can it be as clear as the moon? Worry comes from it and cannot be cut off. The more strange it is, the more useless it is. Talk about it, and remember the old grace. (Talk about a work: Talk about a banquet)
There are few stars in the moon, and blackbirds fly south. Three turns around the tree, what branch can you rely on? The mountains are never too high, and the sea is never too deep. The duke of Zhou vomited and fed, and the world returned to the heart. (Hai Yi Zuo: Water)
Translation
Singing while drinking, life is short, and the sun and the moon fly like a shuttle. It's like the morning dew is fleeting, and there are too many lost days! The songs on the table are passionate and generous, and melancholy fills the heart for a long time. By what to relieve depression? Only binge drinking can relieve you.
Those students wearing blue collars (the costumes of Zhou Dynasty bachelors), you make me miss you day and night. It's just because of you that I've been chanting deeply ever since. In the sun, deer are chirping and eating leisurely on the green slope. Once the talented people from all over the world come to our house, I will play blowing sheng to entertain the guests.
When can I pick up the bright moon hanging in the sky? My long-held worries and resentments suddenly gushed out and merged into a long river Distant guests came to visit me one by one on the field path. Meet each other after a long separation, have a heart-to-heart talk and have a feast, and strive to tell the old friendship.
The moonlight is bright and the stars are sparse, and a group of nesting blackbirds fly south. Flying around the tree for three weeks without folding their wings, where can they live? The mountains do not hesitate to see the towering rocks, and the sea does not abandon the trickle to see the grandeur. I would like to be as courteous as Duke Zhou, and I hope that the heroes in the world will sincerely submit to me.
Extended information:
The writing period of this poem is different, which can be attributed to two ways: one is before Battle of Red Cliffs. There is a description of Cao Cao's poems in the 48th chapter of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. After Cao Cao pacified the north, he led a million heroes, drank horses from the Yangtze River and fought a decisive battle with Sun Quan. It was a bright moon at night, and he set wine and music on the river to celebrate the generals.
When the wine is full, Cao Cao takes a spear and stands at the bow, singing generously. Second, after Battle of Red Cliffs. The first statement is based on Zhang Hui's novels and is unreliable. The second statement has no history and politics. Therefore, the creative background of this poem is still inconclusive.
Short Songs is an old topic of Han Yuefu, which belongs to Xianghe Songs and Pingdiaoqu. This means that it was originally the name of a piece of music. The original ancient words have been lost. There are 24 songs with the same name collected in Yuefu, and the earliest one is Cao Cao's.
the theme of this short song is very clear, that is, the author hopes to have a large number of talents for his own use. In his political activities, in order to expand his ruling base among landlords in commoners and crack down on reactionary hereditary powerful forces, Cao Cao once strongly emphasized that "meritocracy is the promotion", and for this reason, he successively issued the orders of seeking talents, promoting scholars and seeking escape.
In fact, "A Short Song" is a "song for seeking the virtuous", and it is precisely because it uses the form of poetry and contains rich lyrical elements that it can play a unique infectious role, effectively publicize his insistence and cooperate with the government decrees issued by him.
Just like Cao Cao's other poems, such as Hao Li Xing, Duijiu, Kuhan Xing, etc., Short Song Xing is a highly political poem, mainly serving the political line and strategy implemented by Cao Cao at that time. However, its political content and significance are completely fused in the rich lyrical artistic conception, and the whole poem gives full play to the specialty of poetry creation, and accurately and skillfully uses the metaphor technique to achieve the purpose of combining reason with emotion and affecting people.
In Cao Cao's time, he was able to achieve the expected social effect according to the special laws of lyric poetry, and this creative experience is obviously worth learning. At the same time, because Cao Cao's emphasis on "meritocracy" at that time had certain progressive significance, his highly artistic performance on the theme of "seeking talents" should also be affirmed by history.
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