The Jian'an era was the most splendid period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with famous battles such as Guandu and Chibi, and at the same time, with the social turmoil caused by the war, many brilliant stars also emerged in the Jian'an literary circles, and the Seven Sons of Jian'an were a group of extremely bright constellations among the stars, among which Wang Cang was also a particularly prominent one.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the life of Wang Yue</h1>
Wang Yuezi Zhongxuan, one of the seven sons of Jian'an, was born from a famous and prestigious family, and the previous generations of the family held important positions in the dynasty. Wang Cang's great-grandfather Wang Gong and grandfather Wang Chang, both ranked as three dukes, were well-known celebrities at that time.
During the Chuping period, Dong Zhuo coerced Emperor Xian of Han to move west to Chang'an, and at this time the fifteen-year-old Wang Yue also went with Emperor Xian, during which time he met with Zuo Zhonglang's general Cai Yong. Cai Yong was already a well-known scholar in the world at that time, but when he first met Wang Yue, he decided that Wang Cang was a wizard, admitted in front of many disciples that he was inferior to Wang Yue, and was willing to give him all the books in his home.
However, in the more than ten years that Wang Cang then defected to Liu Biao in Jingzhou, he was not allowed to reuse Liu Biao, until Liu Biao died of illness and Liu Chun returned to Cao Cao, and Wang Cang was able to show his talent. Once, Cao Cao set up a banquet to entertain hundreds of officials, and Wang Yue was valued by Cao Cao for his words when toasting cao Cao.
In his toast, Wang Yue said that Yuan Shao of Hebei Seemed to be thirsty for talents, but he was very suspicious and refused to reuse talents, and these people with lofty ideals would eventually leave him, even if there were many soldiers and generals, they would not be able to seize the world.
Liu Biao of Jingzhou wanted to emulate King Wen of Zhou and recruit talented people who had taken refuge in Jingzhou, but he did not know how to make good use of them, and there was no doubt that he could not get the loyal service of the sages.
Wang Cang borrowed the shortcomings of Yuan Shao and Liu Biao to highlight Cao Cao's heroic qualities of being able to enable and the world to be subordinated, and later Wang Cang served as a military sacrifice wine, and the ghost guo Jia also held this position.
Later, Wang Yue was highly appreciated and reused, responsible for rebuilding Cao Wei's ceremonial system, and Cao Cao's two most outstanding sons, Cao Zhi and Cao Pi, were also friends with Wang Yue.
On the way back after Cao Cao's southern expedition to Eastern Wu, the accompanying Wang Cang unfortunately died of illness, because he loved to listen to donkeys before he died, at this time, Cao Pi, as the son of the world, took many of Wang Cang's friends at the funeral and learned to call donkeys to send off Wang Yue, which is the famous donkey singing funeral.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > on Wang Yue's five-word poem</h1>
In terms of poetry, Wang Cang's most outstanding is the five-character poem he composed, which is also a unique existence in the Jian'an era, and some masterpieces are not less than Cao Zhi, and they are "beautiful and qualitative" in the words full of sorrow.
In the first poem of "Three Poems of Seven Lamentations" composed by Wang Cang, he recorded in detail what he saw when he went to Jingzhou to escape the chaos of war, and recorded in detail in the form of poetry, "When you go out, you can't see anything, and the plains are covered with white bones" In ten simple words, it presents an incomparably desolate picture brought about by the war.
Then Wang Yue described a picture of a mother abandoning her son, "There is a hungry woman on the road, and a child abandons the grass." Gu Wen cried and waved his tears alone. "The hungry woman who abandoned her child as a last resort, the cries of the helpless baby, and the figure of the woman wiping away the tears, all tore at people's heartstrings.
"Drive the horse away, can't bear to listen to this" Wang Cang was not passively evading at this time, seeing that the disaster had occurred, Wang Yue could do nothing about it, and could only rely on lamentations and tears to express his sympathy.
This experience deepened his dislike of war, and after that he devoted all his efforts to the cause of stabilizing the people's livelihood, for which he was willing to help Cao Cao complete the unification so that the people of the world could live and work in peace and contentment.
When Wang Yue composed the second poem of the Seven Lamentations when he was under Liu Biao's account, it can be clearly seen that Wang Yue was full of sorrow and indignation because he did not meet huai cai, and the ambition in his chest could not be carried out. It was not until After Wang Cang returned to Cao Cao that he saw changes in his "Congjun Poems".
At this time, Wang Cang saw the hope of China's reunification from Cao Cao, compared with the previous thoughts that liu biao once wanted to go into hiding, at this time Wang Cang was in a state of active entry into the world. "There is bittersweetness in joining the army, but it is heard from whom." Marching under Cao Cao's tent in order to stabilize the world, Wang Yue's heart was full of fighting spirit, and he no longer had the idea of returning to the hidden mountains and forests.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Wang Yue's Jian'an poetry style</h1>
Jian'an poetry is not only the sad meaning contained in it, but more of the feeling behind the sadness, the most representative is Cao Cao's thought, the struggle for the unification of the world and the national peace, and the spirit of perseverance and tenacity behind it.
The most outstanding of the poets is Wang Yue, who shows the sadness and depression caused by the war in the "Seven Lamentations and Three Poems". The "Five Poems from the Army" also shows an optimistic and positive style, which is the whole picture of Wang Yue's poetic style in the Jian'an era, so he was rated as the first of the seven sons of Jian'an by relying only on 23 poems, and people called him "Cao Wang" together with Cao Zhi.
Among these poems made by Wang Cang, rarely use strange allusions, the whole poem is easy to understand and does not lose its literary style, simple and simple but extremely appealing. In Du Fu's poems, you can feel that there is a part of Wang Yue's consciousness, the bitterness and sorrow that drifted away at the wrong time, and the anxiety about the fate of the country.
If Wang Yue was no better than Cao Zhi in the Jian'an era in terms of poetry, then his endowment was definitely the crown of the time. Cao Pi also said that Wang Cang's achievements in this aspect of endowment far exceeded those of other genres, and even Zhang Heng and Cai Yong were far behind. It is only regrettable that Wang Yue's works have not been completely preserved, and only 25 articles have survived to this day, some of which are scattered in ancient texts.
bibliography:
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
"Wang Yue, the Head of the Seven Sons of Jian'an"
"On wang cang's poetic creation"
-Author-
Bai Chuan, willing to be a historian, wrote for five thousand years of China.