The first floor: "Du Kang sings wine alone." Sigh about life.
Second floor: "Qingqing lac, advocating sheng." Miss talented people.
The third floor: "Like the moon, I miss the old grace." Hungry for talent.
The fourth floor: "The moon stars are rare, and the world returns to the heart." Sincerely Nash.
Short Songs is two poems written by Cao Cao, a politician and writer in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, with the theme of ancient Yuefu. The first poem expresses the poet's desire for virtue and ambition to unify the world through the singing of banquets. The second song praises Zhou Wenwang, Qi Huangong and Jin Wengong's adherence to the history of the Minister's Day, indicating that they only have the ambition to help the Han Dynasty, but have no intention of representing the Han Dynasty's independence.
These two poems are elegant, solemn, profound and full of emotion. Their political content and significance are completely integrated into the rich lyrical artistic conception, which fully shows Cao Cao's personality, knowledge, ambition and ideal, and his magnificent and elegant poems.
Appreciation of the whole poem:
Cao Cao's four-character poem is unique after the Book of Songs. His four-character poems have neat sentence patterns and obvious sense of rhythm. However, this second poem, A Short Song, is different. This poem mainly uses four sentences, but there are some changes, such as a small number of five and six sentences, and many prose sentences. This shows that Cao Cao is not confined to the form of poetry, but can change flexibly at any time according to his expressed thoughts and feelings.
Cao Cao's Two Short Songs and Chanting to Wine are about remembering. When drinking at the wedding scene, he worshipped a song. He was excited by the scene at that time, expressed his feelings at the scene, and thought of the world for thousands of years. In the long and gloomy anxiety, he aroused the generosity of resisting ambition and expressed his desire for talents in order to rebuild Wang Ye as a great man.
Zhou Xibochang is an epic poem with straightforward writing. It praised Zhou Wenwang, Qi Huangong and Jin Wengong's great virtues of sticking to the Minister's Day and benefiting the world with small things, and declared that they only had the ambition to help the Han Dynasty with all their strength, but never represented the heart of self-reliance in the Han Dynasty. The perfect combination of the two poems fully shows Cao Cao's personality, education, ambition and ideal, and his poems are magnificent and elegant.