Cao Cao (155-0315,220), whose real name was Geely, was the secretariat of posthumous title Mengde and Yuzhou (now Bozhou, Anhui). At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, outstanding politicians, military strategists, writers and calligraphers laid the foundation for the Cao Wei regime.
In artistic style, 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.
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There are more than twenty poems by Cao Cao, all of which are Yuefu poems. The content can be roughly divided into three categories. One is related to current affairs, the other is mainly to express ideals, and the other is poetry about immortals.
His works related to current affairs include Lu Luxing, Good Li Xing, Bitter Cold Travel, Walking Out of Xiamen, etc. , expressed their political ambitions, reflected the tragic life of the people at the end of the Han dynasty, magnificent, generous and sad.
Two songs, Autumn Journey and Good, were written in the early years of Jian 'an. The foregoing reflects that He Jinmou murdered eunuchs, and Dong Zhuo went to Luoyang for insurrection. The second article is about the states and counties in Kanto, each with its own ambitions, fighting with each other, and keeping pace with each other in content. Poetry writes this historical process in concise language, so it is known as "a true record of the late Han Dynasty, an authentic work of poetry history".
Cao Cao likes to express his political ambitions and reflect the sufferings of people's livelihood with poems. He is a representative figure of Wei and Jin literature, and Lu Xun praised him as "the founder of reforming articles". At the same time, Cao Cao is good at calligraphy, and Zhang Huaiguan's Broken Tang Book rated Cao Cao's Cao Zhang as a "wonderful work".
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