2. The author compares himself to "Duke Zhou", encourages himself with the spirit of corporal ceremony of Duke Zhou, and expresses the author's broad political mind and insatiable pursuit of virtue.
"Short songs" is an old topic in Han Yuefu, which belongs to "harmony and flat tone". This means that it was originally the name of a song. The singing of this piece has been lost.
However, in Yuefu's Harmony Tune, there are "long tunes" as well as "short tunes". Jason Wu's Interpretation of Ancient Poems in Yuefu in Tang Dynasty quoted the ancient poems Long song in Full swing, Ge Yanxing and Short Songs Can't Grow by Wei Wendi Cao Pi, Ge Yanxing and Ge Yanxing by Fu Xuan in Jin Dynasty, and The Governor came to Long song to continue short songs.
Now we can only understand the musical characteristics of "short songs" according to this material. The music "A Short Song Line" originally had the corresponding lyrics, that is, "Yuefu Ancient Ci", but this ancient ci has been lost. The earliest "short song" that can be seen now is Cao Cao's "Two Short Songs", which is a quasi-Yuefu (adding new words with old Yuefu songs).
The theme of the extended material "Short Song" is very clear, that is, the author hopes to have a large number of talents for his own use. In his political activities, in order to expand his ruling base among civilian landlords and crack down on reactionary hereditary forces, Cao Cao once strongly emphasized "meritocracy", and for this reason, he successively issued orders to seek talents, recruit scholars and escape.
The "short song" is actually a "song of seeking virtue", and because it adopts the form of poetry and contains rich lyrical elements, it can play a unique infectious role, effectively publicize his persistence and cooperate with his decrees.
There are six explanations in a short song (that is, six paragraphs), and this poem "Singing to Wine" can be divided into four paragraphs according to the poem.
Generally speaking, this poem, like Cao Cao's other poems, such as Good Li Xing, Duijiu and Ku Hanxing, is a highly political poem, mainly serving the political line and strategy implemented by Cao Cao at that time. However, its political content and significance are completely integrated into the rich lyrical artistic conception.
The whole poem gives full play to the characteristics of poetry, accurately and skillfully uses metaphor, and achieves the goal of combining reason with emotion and touching. At that time, Cao Cao was able to achieve the expected social effect according to the special laws of lyric poetry, and this creative experience is obviously worth learning from later generations.
At the same time, because Cao Cao's emphasis on "meritocracy" at that time had certain progressive significance, his highly artistic performance on the theme of "seeking talents" should also be affirmed by history.
Cao Cao (155—220) was born in Peiguoqiao (now Bozhou City, Anhui Province). Politically and militarily, Cao Cao eliminated many separatist forces, unified most of northern China, and implemented a series of policies to restore economic production and social order, which laid the foundation for the founding of Cao Wei.
In literature, under the impetus of Cao Cao and his son, Jian 'an literature represented by three Cao Cao (Cao Cao, Cao Pi and Cao Zhi) was formed, which was called "Jian 'an Style" in history and left a glorious stroke in the history of literature. After the establishment of Wei Dynasty, Cao Cao was honored as "Wei Wudi" and the temple name was "Taizu". For the deeds, see Volume 1 of the History of the Three Kingdoms. There are 30 volumes that have been lost. The Ming Dynasty compiled the Collection of Wei Wudi, and now there is the Collection of Cao Cao.
References:
Two short songs-Baidu Encyclopedia