Just recently, on October 25, Tesla's market value soared, becoming another trillion-dollar company, and the "arrogant" Musk's net worth also rose, with a net worth of nearly $290 billion to secure the throne of the world's richest man, even more than Buffett and Bill Gates combined.
If the Nobel Prize adds a "Special Contribution To Entrepreneurs Award", I am afraid that some entrepreneurs will vote for Elon Musk - the Mars explorer, Iron Man walking on earth, hair loss transplanter, Dogecoin manipulator, the master of global money.
Yesterday, Musk posted a Chinese character five-character poem on his social media account under the title of "Humankind", Cao Zhi's "Seven Steps Poem":
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Some speculate that the cause is last week's forced donation by the United Nations Food Programme, calling on the super-rich to help solve the problem of world hunger, and has publicly named Musk, and this "Seven Steps" is a response to the forced donation of $6 billion.
Since then, Tesla's U.S. stocks have continued to rise, with a market value of more than $1.2 trillion, and more netizens joked, "Iron Man has become cultured." ”
If we want to talk about culture, about our own five-word poems, we must study it carefully. The "Seven-Step Poem" first appeared in Liu Yiqing's compilation of "The New Language of the World", which is equivalent to a story meeting, mainly containing some anecdotal stories.
The book says that after Cao Pi ascended the throne, he wanted to get rid of this younger brother who had once competed with him for the world and was quick-witted, so he ordered him to recite a poem within seven steps, otherwise he would be sentenced to capital punishment. Cao Zhi was worthy of being known as the "Immortal Talent" of the two thousand years of poets of the Han and Wei Dynasties, and then recited this "Seven-Step Poem":
Boiled beans are held as a soup, and wet as juice.
The beans burned under the kettle, and the beans wept in the kettle.
Born from the same root, why is it too urgent to fry?
This version, when I was in junior high school, I only read it: what to make boiled beans, what to think of juice. And Musk's version, which should be our common version, is simple and easy to understand, and it is not like a recipe, getting rid of the suspicion of a recipe about cooking beans translated by foreign netizens with a translator on Twitter.
Everyone rejoiced.
It is estimated that the only one who does not like it is Cao Pi, because the book records that Cao Pi has shame after listening to it, presumably regretting it, why is it that there are ten thousand ways to kill you, but he chose the seven-step poem?
Whether Cao Zhi really wrote the "Seven-Step Poem" has always been questioned, but regarding Cao Zhi's literary achievements, the evaluation of later generations is very high, for example, Xie Lingyun said: The talent of the world is a total of one stone, Cao Zhi occupies eight buckets, I occupy one bucket, and the rest, all people are divided. Among them, one stone is equal to ten buckets, and the idiom of eight buckets is derived from here.
It's just that it seems that we read Cao Zhi's poems very little, except for this "Seven-Step Poem" and then "Roselle Endowment", but there are even fewer people who really see the end completely from the beginning, one because it has not been compiled into the textbook, and the other because there are too many strange words.
I don't understand.
For example, in the Roselle Endowment, it can be said that the figure of a woman can be described as "flying like a frightening, correct as a dragon", from a distance to see "if the sun rises in the morning", from a close point of view, "burning if the fur is out of the green wave", describing the appearance of "Dan lips outside Lang, bright teeth inside fresh, bright eyes, Jing Fu chengquan", describing the conversation "words are not spitting, breath like Youlan". Or the sentence in "Three Kingdoms Killing" that Zhen Ji nagged: "fǎng fú is like a light cloud covering the moon, fluttering like a flowing wind and snow".
In short, the writing is too good, there are many places worth plagiarizing, and many martial arts novels are not borrowed?
But the difficulty is, you have to figure out what it means first. For example, what does hibiscus mean? In fact, it is a kind of lotus, which is a water lily. We are more familiar with the Tang poems and Song Ci in the nine-year compulsory education, and we do not have much understanding of the five-character poems and Lefu folk songs, and even read them a little awkwardly.
So in the end, when we mention Cao Zhi, we can only think of a "seven-step poem", and it is still a simplified version. But this does not affect our appreciation of this poem, even if we can't read it, we can't directly appreciate Cao Zhi's talent from the verses, and we can also feel his talent from the time limit of the seven steps to make poetry.
It seems that Musk also feels the charm of Zi Jian's seven steps into poetry, as to whether it is a recipe, it does not matter, it is always important that it is a story.
The story is timeless, and the classic chants are passed down.
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