"Don't forget the first grass, play the piano and how hurtful it is, now beizi xi return to his hometown, the old grievances are flat and the new grievances are long, the weeping blood looks up and complains to the cangs, and Hu Weisheng is alone to urge this disaster."
This is the lyrics in the ancient music house piano song lyrics of the eighteen beats of hu jia, which reflects the author's sad and uneven state of mind, and the author of the lyrics is Cai Wenji, a famous talented woman at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China.
Cai Wenji's father was the famous writer and calligrapher Cai Pipa at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Cai Wenji experienced the hardships of war in her life, and was once taken captive to the Southern Xiongnu and later redeemed by Cao Cao. She was a famous talented woman at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and she composed many lyrics and literary works in her lifetime, and only the famous five-character "Poem of Sorrow and Indignation" and the lyrics of the piano song "Hu Family Eighteen Beats" remained.
"Cai Nu used to make a hu eggplant sound, a bullet of ten has eight beats, Hu people shed tears to the side grass, Han made the broken intestines sigh back to the guest."
This is a poem written for Cai Wenji by the Tang Dynasty poet Li Qi, reflecting the tragic fate and life of Cai Wenji throughout her life.
Cai Wenji's life was ill-fated, and she had three marriages. Although he is knowledgeable and talented, he cannot dominate his own life.
Cai Wenji married the Hedong Wei family for the first time, and lived with her husband for a year and became a widow.
Her first husband, Wei Zhongdao, was a scholar who was too learned, but unfortunately the good times were not long, less than a year later, Wei Zhongdao died of lung disease, the two people still had no children, the People of the Wei family believed that Cai Wenjike had killed her husband, so they were very disgusted and excluded from her, and her mother-in-law scolded her every day for being a mourning star. Cai Wenji could not stand the anger of her in-laws, and despite her parents' objections, she took it upon herself to return to her mother's house and became a widow.
Abducted by the Xiongnu, the second marriage was forced to marry the Xiongnu King Zuoxian as a concubine.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, wars abounded, and the Xiongnu often went deep into the Central Plains to plunder property and women. Cai Wenji was also taken captive by Xiongnu soldiers to the Xiongnu territory. The Xiongnu king Zuoxian saw that Cai Wenji was very talented and liked her very much, so he forced Cai Wenji to be his own concubine. Cai Wenji could only succumb to the arrangement of fate, endured the life of the Xiongnu and the foreign race, and also had to force a smile to please King Zuoxian. Cai Wenji lived in the Xiongnu for twelve years, not only bore two sons for King Zuoxian, but also learned the language of the Xiongnu and could play instruments such as the Huns' huja.
After returning to the Eastern Han Dynasty, the third marriage married Dong Qi, a tuntian lieutenant who did not like him.
After Cao Cao became chancellor, he heard that a generation of talented daughters Cai Wenji had been plundered by the Xiongnu to the Xiongnu, and remembering that Cai Wenji's father, Cai Pipa, had been kind to Cao Cao in that year, he sent envoys to the Xiongnu to redeem Cai Wenji. In order to settle down in Cai Wenji's life, Cao Cao also personally chose a family affair for her. Dong Qi, a lieutenant of Tuntian, was ordered to marry Cai Wenji. At that time, Dong Qi was young and promising, physically strong, and in the midst of a prosperous period, he did not look up to cai Wenji, who was older than him in his teens, and had married many times and had children. However, due to Cao Cao's power, he had no choice but to marry Cai Wenji. He has also been snubbed after marrying her. Cai Wenji looked at Dong Qi's face every day impatiently.
However, there were unexpected storms in the sky, and people had bad luck and misfortune, and did not want Dong Qi to offend Cao Cao, and was sentenced to death by Cao Cao. Cai Wenji sacrificed her life to intercede with Cao Cao, who was in a rage, and Cao Cao released Dong Qi's way to life. Since then, Dong Qi's gratitude to Cai Wenji has become somber, so the couple's personal married life has become more and more normal.
After that, Dong Qi and Cai Wenji went up along the Luoshui River, lived in the land of beautiful mountains and rivers, and spent the rest of their lives peacefully.
Cai Wenji's piano song lyrics "Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia" have high artistic value. Lu Shiyong, a Ming Dynasty man, commented in the "General Treatise on Poetry Mirrors":
"In the decadence of the Tokyo style, Cai Wenji is talented and heroic, reading "Hu Jia Yin", can make the shocked puff sit up, the sand and gravel fly by itself, it is really fierce into the embrace. ”