In the era of the Three Kingdoms, the world paid more attention to the strategy of the soldiers and the strategy of the soldiers, as well as the tendency of the king to defeat the intestines. In short, in the face of victory or defeat in war, culture is not so important, and the wind and snow will become a burden. Cao Cao's father and son are all unpleasant characters in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but some people say that they were born in the wrong era, and if they were born in the prosperous world, presumably each of them would be a great talent. It is no exaggeration to say that the poems written by Cao Cao's father and son, such as "LuoshenFu" and "Short Song Line", almost represented the highest level of cultural circles at that time.
However, compared with Cao Cao and Cao Zhi, Cao Pi's cultural level is obviously not so recognized, and his works have also been questioned a lot, in fact, Cao Pi is also very wronged, because compared with the other two, his contribution to the literary world is almost the greatest. Cao Pi was the first poet to write a seven-character poem, with rhyming sentences and ingenious brushwork, which left an extremely far-reaching impact on the creation of later generations, which can be said to be of epoch-making significance.
If Cao Zhi's poems are full of talent, then Cao Pi's poems are full of true temperament, and the world says that Cao Pi is cunning by nature, but his friendship with the seven sons of Jian'an is real. And in today's terms, Cao Pi is equivalent to the pusher behind the popularity of the seven sons of Jian'an, and it can be seen that Cao Pi is treating these friends with sincerity.
As a close friend in his life, Cao Pi was naturally very concerned about the affairs of these friends, for example, Wang Cang, one of the seven sons, liked to listen to donkeys very much before he died, so Cao Pi took his friends to Wang Cang's tomb to learn donkey calls in turn, which was a touching friendship. After the death of another friend, Ruan Yu, Cao Pi was touched by his friend's widow and wrote a controversial poem, which is the very famous "Widow Poem".
Ruan Yu is a rare close friend in Cao Pi's life, his death is a great blow to Cao Pi, in order to mourn his friends, he describes his state of mind in the tone of Ruan Yu's widow, fantasizing that he is a widow, putting himself in the shoes of a widow, describing the widow's mood, appearing more sincere. Every sentence of this poem is very level, and the feelings are deep, describing the widow's mood in detail, but it is insulted by many women.
It turns out that everything originated from the last sentence of Cao Pi's poem, "May it be from Junxi to the end, why worry about it for a long time", which means that I can't bear the pain of this yin and yang separation, so it is better to go with you. Because the feudal ritual number requires one from one to the end, in ancient times, women who were martyred for their husbands abounded. However, this is the poem written by Cao Pi according to his own inner thoughts, not the widow's real thoughts, so everyone thinks that he is a naked moral kidnapping.
It has to be said that Cao Pi's cultural level is very high, but due to the influence of the factors of the times, his thinking is bound to be somewhat backward, so the poems he created are somewhat contrary to the current ideas. The times are progressing, and when we study the culture of the ancients, it is best to selectively remove its dross and take its essence.