"A gifted scholar and a beautiful woman" comes from "The History of Chang Tan". The original meaning of "gifted scholar" is to describe Cao Zhi's outstanding literary talent. A literary talent in the world is always * * * a stone, and he accounts for eight fights.

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Cao Zhi (192 -232 65438+27 February) was born in Peiguoqiao County (now Bozhou City, Anhui Province), the third son of Cao Cao and the younger brother of Cao Pi. China was a writer, poet and musician in the Three Kingdoms period. ?

Young Cao Zhi, early wisdom. When he was in his teens, he read hundreds of thousands of words of poems and songs. He can also write and is deeply loved by Cao Cao. He almost wanted to be a prince, but in the end he fell out of favor because of willfulness and alcoholism.

After Cao Cao's death, Cao Zhi's life has also undergone tremendous changes. In the following ten years, he was forced to move many times, first sealing the plain and then moving to Linzi. After Cao Pi and Cao Cao proclaimed themselves emperors one after another, they were persecuted repeatedly, and they wrote seven-step poems which were popular at that time to express their sufferings and resentment. Later, he was demoted to Anxiang Hou and moved to Wang Chen. Eventually, he died of depression because he could not display his talents.

Cao Zhi has made great achievements in Jian 'an poetry circle. On the basis of the ancient poems of Yuefu in Han Dynasty, he made important contributions to the development of five-character poems. There are seventy or eighty existing poems, which are the most among Jian 'an poets. The early poems represented by White Horse are full of optimism and romance, and full of confidence in the future.

In the later period, the sudden change of life led to the change of poetic style, from the relaxed and optimistic and romantic mood to anxiety, sadness, depression and pain, such as Wang Biao for a White Horse. In addition to poetry creation, Cao Zhi's prose and ci-fu creation have also made great achievements, and he has written such famous articles as "A Letter to Yang Dezu", "A Letter to Wu Ji" and "A Form for Self-examination".

Literary and artistic achievements

Cao Zhi's creation is divided into two periods in 220 years (twenty-five years of Jian 'an). His early poems mainly praised his ideals and ambitions, filled with optimism and romance, and full of confidence in the future; Later poems mainly express the grief and indignation caused by the contradiction between ideal and reality.

His poems not only embody the elegance of The Book of Songs, but also contain the profound and strange interest of The Songs of the South. It not only inherits the brushwork of reflecting reality in Han Yuefu, but also retains the warm and sad artistic conception of 19 ancient poems. Cao Zhi's poetry has its own distinctive and unique style, which has completed the transformation from Yuefu folk songs to literati poems.