The first ten sentences of this poem outline such a historical picture: the generals of the counties in Guandong elected Yuan Shao, the governor of the Bohai Sea, as the ally leader, ready to attack Dong Zhuo, who burned the palace and destroyed the temple, held Xian Di hostage, and moved the capital to Chang 'an, which was decadent and shameful and brought disaster to the country and people. At that time, although the armies of various counties gathered together, they looked at each other, hesitated, and even had their own plans. They even kill each other for hegemony and personal gain. If the commandment fails, it will be followed by a pen attack. The poet mercilessly exposed the fact that the Yuan Shao brothers plotted to claim the title of emperor, cast seals, help the Han Dynasty in the name of Dong Zhuo and dominate the world, and felt sad and indignant at the war caused by it. The poem describes the split process of Kanto from aggregation to dispersion in extremely concise language, which becomes a true record of history. However, the success and value of Cao Cao's poem do not stop there. Since "armour begets lice", the poet has turned his pen and ink from recording the facts of warlords' disputes to describing the disasters brought by war to the people. While exposing the warlord's disaster to the country and the people, he showed infinite sympathy for the people and his concern and anxiety about state affairs, which made his poems transcend ordinary notes and reflected the poet's concern for the country and the people.
The following six sentences are written about the disaster brought by the war to the soldier goose and the author's feelings. "Armor gives birth to lice" describes the long war. Soldiers have been fighting for many years, and people don't understand armor, and horses don't unload their saddles. Its suffering can be imagined. "Wan Yan is Dead" is about people dying in the war, which shows the danger of war. "White bones are exposed in the wild, and there are no crows in a thousand miles." Describe a bleak and tragic picture in the war with concise language. From the visual experience, the white bones in the wild are so pale; Auditively speaking, the vast land is dead and silent, and there is no breath of life. The chicken barks and the dog barks. These ordinary farmers are deaf. As soon as the author turns his face, he will naturally be deeply grieved.
This poem reveals the causes of social disasters more profoundly than Lu Luxing, and more frankly shows his dissatisfaction with reality and sympathy for the people. Cao Cao himself really entered the political arena, starting with his and Yuan Shao's crusade against Dong Zhuo. So the facts written in the poem are all his own personal experiences. Compared with the things described in Lu Luxing, the poet has a more direct and emotional understanding, so the reality reflected in the poem is more real and the feelings are stronger. For example, the last two sentences are entirely the poet's sympathy for the world under the real situation that the people are in dire straits and sad everywhere. Commenting on Cao Zhi's father and son's poems, Liu Xie once said: "If you don't want to be ambitious, you can't leave your words without sorrow." (Wen Xin Diao Long Yue Fu) Zhong Rong commented on Cao Cao's poems and said: "Cao Gong is ancient and straight, and there are extremely sad sentences." (Under the Poetry) all point out the characteristics of gloomy feelings in Cao Cao's poems. Only with feelings can Cao Cao's poems have touching power to read; It is only because of his pathos that his poems are tragic and gloomy. This song "Good" is a typical example. Therefore, Chen Ruoming said: "Although Meng De's essays are not imitations of the past, they all start with writing about his homesickness, starting with worrying about poverty, then sympathizing with chaos, giving full play to the terrain, thinking about liberation and failure, and so on." (Selected Poems by Cai Jitang) It can be seen that the characteristics of expressing anxiety and expressing resentment in Cao Cao's poems have been valued by predecessors.
The poet criticized the social reality at that time in the form of folk songs. He not only expressed great indignation and sympathy for the people who were in dire straits because of the war, but also mercilessly exposed and lashed out at the culprit who caused the people's suffering. The style of the whole poem is simple, gloomy and tragic, which embodies the heroism and sense of hardship of a politician and strategist. The poetry anthology contains allusions, examples and descriptions, with concrete images and profound connotations, which embodies Cao Cao's unique writing style.