"Short songs" is an old topic in Han Yuefu, which belongs to "harmony and flat tune". Cao Cao has two short songs. The first one is very famous. This poem expresses the poet's desire for virtue and ambition to unify the world through singing at the banquet in a calm and frustrated style. The whole poem is profound, solemn and elegant, and full of emotion, which is one of Cao Cao's representative works. "Long song" and "short song" refer to the syllable length of lyrics. Line is a genre of ancient poetry.
Chinese name: short song
Alias: "Two Short Songs"
Author: Cao Cao
Dynasty: Late Eastern Han Dynasty
Source: Selected Works
Literary genre: four-character poems
Alias of the work: two short songs
Source: Selected Works
Literary genre: four-character poems