Source: Ge Yanxing by Cao Pi and Wei Wendi in Wei and Jin Dynasties.

Excerpt from the original:

Short songs cannot be long.

The bright moon shines on my bed, and it's still early for the stars to flow west.

Cowherd and Weaver Girl look at each other from afar, and you are alone in the river beam.

Translation:

I took the guqin and fiddled with the strings, but my heart was very sad. The short song sang softly, as if it were still broken.

The bright moonlight shines on my empty bed, the milky way flows west, and the sleepless night is long.

Cowherd and Weaver Girl, facing each other from a distance. What crime did you commit? It was blocked by Tianhe.

The extended message "The autumn wind is bleak, the weather is cool, the grass and trees shake the frost, and the geese return to the south." The first three sentences are about a chilling scene in late autumn, preparing for the heroine's appearance. The image here is visual, auditory and sensory, giving people a feeling of emptiness, loneliness and decline. This scene is consistent with the inner feelings of the upcoming heroine.

"I miss you, your heart is broken, and you are homesick. How can you send it to stay for a long time? " In the windy and rainy autumn night that has been described before, the heroine stepped onto the stage: she was sad, lonely and affectionately looking at the distance and talking to herself. She said: You have been away from home for so long, I miss you so much.

"I'm a concubine, and I'm worried about you, even if I can't forget it. I don't feel tears in my clothes." These three sentences describe the heroine's life at home: she lives alone in an empty room, works as a private server all day and often tears her clothes.

On the one hand, it shows her loneliness and boredom with life; On the other hand, it shows the heroine's infinite loyalty and love for her husband. Although her life is so bleak and lonely, she thinks of nothing but her husband and hopes for his early return.

"With the help of the piano, the strings are clear and short songs cannot be long." The Qingshang Festival is extremely short, the sound is extremely subtle, and the clouds can't last long. On this autumn night, the heroine is very sad. Holding a lyre, she tried to express her inexpressible feelings by playing A Qing Commercial Songs, but all her words were short and plaintive, and she could never sing a soft Long song.

"The bright moon shines on my bed, and it's still early for the stars to flow west. Cowherd and Weaver Girl face each other from a distance, why are they confined to the river beam alone? " The heroine misses people far away sadly. Sometimes she sighs in the breeze, sometimes she sings softly and wanders around, and I don't know how long it will take.

The ideas expressed in the works are not complicated, and the theme is not particularly novel. However, Cao Pi, as an upper-class figure of the ruling class, can care about such a matter involving thousands of families, and he has placed such deep sympathy in his poems, which is commendable. In art, he vividly described the feelings and psychology of the lyric heroine. She is elegant and dignified, fiery and reserved, eager and dignified.

The work skillfully combines the lyrical description of the scenery, the narration of the characters and the monologue of the heroine, forming a tragic style. Its rhetoric is gorgeous, and it also uses a lot of things from predecessors, but all this seems to be completely unintentional, without any traces of carving.

This is the characteristic of Xing, and it is also a typical characteristic that Cao Pi's poems are different from other poets in Jian 'an. Cao Pi is a politician, but from his works, he often can't see his father Cao's bold spirit of taking the world as his duty, nor can he find his younger brother Cao Zhi's positive and eager thought of serving the country.

About the author: Cao Pi (187-226), that is, Cao Wei's great-grandfather, a famous politician and writer in the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao's eldest son Pei Guoqiao (now Bozhou City, Anhui Province) and his wife Bian. He is both civil and military, good at riding and shooting, good at fencing, familiar with ancient and modern classics, and familiar with hundreds of theories.

After Cao Cao's death, Cao Pi succeeded Wang Wei as prime minister. After Cao Pi abdicated to the throne, Wei ended the rule of the Han Dynasty for more than 400 years. During his reign, he settled the border dispute. Repel Xianbei, make friends with Xiongnu, Bianyi, Qiang and other foreign nationalities, and restore the establishment of the Han Dynasty in the western regions.

Apart from military and political affairs, Cao Pi was a good writer since childhood and made achievements in poetry, prose and literature. He is especially good at five-character poems. He, his father Cao Cao and his brother Cao Zhi are also called "Three Caos", and there are two volumes of Wei Wendi Collection.

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