Social unrest at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty caused great damage to productivity. People with lofty ideals are worried about the country and the people, dissatisfied with the warlords' melee, and sympathetic to the disasters suffered by the people. Therefore, Jian 'an literature has formed social contents such as paying attention to people's livelihood, worrying about the country and the people, and aiming at making contributions. Its artistic style is generous, sad and full of vitality. Writers such as Cao and his son, seven sons of Jian 'an (Kong Rong, Chen Lin, RoyceWong, Xu Gan, Angelababy and Serina Liu) inherited the realistic literary tradition with profound knowledge and good cultivation, and took the sufferings of society and people during Jian 'an years as the theme, which made literary creation enter the conscious stage. Cao Cao wrote it? Bones are exposed in the wild, and there are no crows in a thousand miles? Poetry, such as A Record of the Last Years of the Eastern Han Dynasty. ? The old horse crouches, aiming at a thousand miles? Such as poetry, embodies the vigorous spirit and unremitting struggle in his later years, and establishes the "flag of Jian 'an character" with great vigour.
The unprecedented achievements in Jian 'an literature have created a large number of outstanding poets, initiated a new era of literary creation, and produced far-reaching literary works, which enabled Chinese poetry, a literary form, to enter the art hall from the folk, especially the creation of five-character poems, to reach a perfect level, making poetry the most creative literary genre, blooming in the garden of classical literature, and having a positive impact on poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the new Yuefu movement in the middle Tang Dynasty from the aspects of theme, genre and writing skills.
Taking the death of Cao Cao as the boundary, Cao Zhi's poems are obviously divided into two periods. In the early stage, he expressed his lofty ideals and ambitions, and White Horse is a typical example. Early poems expressed their ambitions, but they also had a desolate and generous meaning.
In his later works, he mostly expressed his depression, the typical representative work is Prince Charming Wang Biao. The whole article is full of sad words and angry voices.
Cao Zhi's early poems are full of high spirits, while his later poems are generous and sad. The change of poetic style is due to the change of its political status, which leads to the change of theme and artistic technique. Cao Zhi was very talented in his early years, so his poems often praised his ideals and ambitions of making contributions, and also wrote some works of feasting and having fun, which were full of romantic optimism. In the later period, he was deeply suspicious, so he mainly wrote about his grief and injustice of being condemned and abandoned, or about his friends and his resentment of being persecuted, or used the traditional theme of in my heart forever to express his mind, or expressed his mind, or borrowed the gods to dispel his inner anguish. A large number of metaphors and symbols are used to express the poet's spirit of resisting persecution.