Eight reasons for having to worship Cao Cao.

Cao Cao is true, it is true.

Including his treachery, cunning, cruelty and tyranny, all showed calmness, grace, sincerity and calmness.

This is really an "atmosphere".

"Only heroes can be true, and celebrity romance is true." From this perspective, Cao Cao is a hero and a great hero.

Cao Cao's temperament is a kind of "atmosphere", a kind of magnanimity, regardless of the success or failure of life and death, and a kind of heroic spirit of the legendary swordsman.

Cao Cao is really atmospheric.

Reading his poems and essays, we can often feel his heroic momentum.

Even if it is handy, laughing and cursing, and arbitrary, it is not vulgar because of its atmosphere.

In particular, his "Looking at the Sea" is magnificent: "Jieshi looks at the sea in the east.

The sea is so vast that the islands stand high on the sea.

Trees and paraquat are very lush. Autumn wind makes trees make sad sounds, and the sea is surging.

The movement of the sun and the moon seems to come from the vast ocean.

A trip to the sun and the moon, if unexpected; Han is a talented star, if you take him by surprise. "Such a poem, it is not also do not to come out.

Zhong Rong said: "Cao Gong is old and straight, and there is a sad saying." This kind of sadness, as Liu Xie said, is not only "good things are scattered in the world, the wind decays but common grievances, and the ambition is deep and the pen is long, so it is generous and full of gas", but also related to Cao Cao's philosophical thinking on the life of the universe.

After all, Cao Cao is a hero in troubled times. He saw the destruction of life better than anyone else.

His feelings are more or less with ultimate concern.

Perhaps, it is this thorough understanding of life in the universe that makes Cao Cao face difficulties and twists and turns with a smile from beginning to end.

If you read the History of the Three Kingdoms? During the reign of Emperor Wudi, we will find that the words "laugh", "laugh" and "Mao Xiao" appear frequently.

Of course, Cao Cao's smiles are various.

There are laughter, laughter, self-deprecating wry smile, ridicule, ridicule, sneer, and even a sneer full of murder.

However, Cao Cao is always laughing.

Cao Cao also cried.

His comrades-in-arms died, his friends died, his relatives died, and they also cried.

But if he did something wrong, lost the battle and was humiliated by others, Cao Cao would never cry. He must be laughing.

Because Cao Cao is open-minded, cheerful and magnificent, he is a man of temperament and a real hero.

2. Beautiful

Cao Cao is very cute.

In life, Cao Cao often wears thin silk clothes, with a leather purse hanging around his waist to hold towels and other odds and ends, and sometimes wears a silk hat to welcome guests.

I have no scruples when talking to people. I can say whatever I want, and I can say whatever I want.

Speaking of happiness, he bent down with laughter and plunged into the cups and plates, leaving soup and water all over his hat.

These details were told to us by Cao Zang, a book that was not very friendly to Cao Cao. Its original intention is to label Cao Cao as "easy to lose but not strong" (easy to catch).

However, what I read from it is Cao Cao's frankness, humor and free and easy.

Cao Cao is really funny.

He likes joking and often jokes about serious things.

According to the reflection? In the Biography of Mao Jie, during the institutional reform in the seventeenth year of Jian 'an, some people asked for the merger of Cao Dong, in order to crowd out the selfless Cao Dong and slap Mao Jie.

Cao Cao's answer is humorous.

He said the sunrise is in the east and the moon is in the east.

Things, things, people always say the east first, then the west. Why do you want to merge Dongcao? As a result, it was Cao who was laid off.

This not only reformed the organization, but also protected Mao Jie.

Cao Cao on the battlefield is also very cute.

According to the reflection? Pei Songzhi quoted Shu Wei in "Ji of Emperor Wudi". In the sixteenth year of Jian 'an, when Cao Cao made a westward expedition to Ma Chao and Han Sui, he asked Han Sui to go to war.

When the soldiers in Han Sui heard that Cao Cao appeared in person, they all craned their necks to see him.

Cao Cao said loudly: Do you want to see Cao Cao? I tell you, like you, you are a human being, without four eyes and two mouths, but you have a little more wisdom! This is true, lovely and free and easy.

As a friend, Cao Cao is more lovely.

Cao Cao likes joking, and he also likes friends who can joke.

Qiu was the first person to admire Cao Cao, and he was regarded as "forgetting friends" with Cao Cao.

According to the reflection? According to Pei Songzhi's note in the Ji of Emperor Wudi, Cao Cao told a joke about offering sacrifices to Qiao Xuan in the article, saying that Joe had made a "leisurely pact" with him in those days: After I die, I will pass by my grave, but don't blame me if you don't offer a bucket of wine and a chicken.

This is much cuter than those red tape eulogies, and the feelings are much more real.

Step 3 tell the truth

The loveliest thing about Cao Cao is that he tells the truth.

Originally, it was inevitable to tell some lies in the political struggle, and to mix in the officialdom, at least to talk about officialdom rhetoric, not to mention that Cao Cao was a "traitor."

However, whenever possible, he tells the truth, or speaks like the truth without red tape.

His "Let the Duke of the County Know the Truth" (also known as "Shu") was originally an extremely important political proclamation, which can be called a "political program", but it was written in a down-to-earth and plain way, without bureaucratic jargon at all.

Cao Cao is really clever.

In an era when everyone tells lies, the best weapon is telling the truth.

This is not only because the truth itself has eloquent power, but also because once you tell the truth, the peep show will be exposed, and the scammers will be helpless and their play will not go on.

Of course, Cao Cao said this not entirely out of the strategy of struggle, but also because he told the truth every day.

Even if there is a set of falsehood behind these truths, there is also a false heart and hidden things behind the truth, which are naturally hidden and will not reveal the clues.

Even if you tell a lie, or say something half-true, or hide a lie behind the truth, you can speak it frankly, fluently and confidently.

It can be said that Cao Cao is a gorgeous lie even when he is lying.

4. Tolerance.

Cao Cao is a vengeful man, but he is also a generous man.

He spared many of his enemies and those who betrayed him.

Zhong Wei was originally the most trusted person of Cao Cao.

When Zhang Miao rebelled, many people rebelled and followed Zhang Miao, but Cao Cao said with great confidence: Only Zhong Wei won't betray me.

Who knows that Zhong Wei also ran away with Zhang Miao, and Cao Cao gnashed his teeth with anger: What a Zhong Wei! Even if you go to the ends of the earth, I won't spare you! But when Zhong Wei was captured, Cao Cao sighed and said, "Zhong Wei is a talent!" ! Appointed him the satrap of Hanoi.

When Bi Zhan's mother, brother, wife and children were all detained by Zhang Miao, Cao Cao said to him: Your mother's adult is at Zhang Miao's place, so you'd better go and find him! Bi Zhan knelt down and kowtowed, saying that he had no infidelity, which moved Cao Cao to tears.

Who knows BiZhan turned around and didn't even say hello, so he betrayed Cao Cao and defected to Zhang Miao.

Later, Bi Zhan was captured, and everyone thought he was dead this time.

Who knows that Cao Cao said: Can a filial person be unfaithful to you? This is the very person I am looking for everywhere! Not only did he not cure Bi Zhan of his crime, but he also sent him to Qufu, Confucius' hometown, to make a portrait of Lu.

These two things are recorded in the historical texts of Liang Wudi in the Three Kingdoms, and they should also be credible.

Even for friends who betrayed him, Cao Cao valued the friendship of that year.

The relationship between Chen Gong and Cao Cao is extraordinary, and Cao Cao was appointed as Yanzhou Pastoral, which is the credit of Chen Gong.

Later, Chen Gong wanted to help Lu Bu fight Cao Cao. He refused to surrender after being arrested.

When Cao Cao called him, he said, Gongtai, it doesn't matter if you die. What can your old mother do? Chen Gong sighed and said, I heard that filial piety does no harm to one's relatives. It's up to you whether the mother is dead or alive.

Cao Cao asked again: where are your wife and children? Chen Gong added: "I heard that after the benevolent government in the world is endless, the life and death of his wife and children are up to the public." .

Say that finish, don't look back, cocky, accept the punishment.

Cao Cao saw him off in tears.

After Chen Gong's death, Cao Cao supported his mother and helped his daughter get married, which was better for their family than when they were friends.

There is no biography of Chen Gong in the reflection, but it is recorded in the biography of Lu Bu.

Pei Songzhi's comments and quotations on The Brief of Canon are more detailed.

The protagonist's helplessness is affectionate.

Cao Cao is a man deeply in love.

Cao Cao marched south and fought north. He has been a soldier all his life, and he doesn't have much time to enjoy his family, so he cherishes his feelings for his family.

According to the Biography of Empresses of the Three Kingdoms, Pei Songzhi quoted Wei Lue, and Cao Cao said this before he died.

He said: I have nothing to regret for what I have done in my life, and I don't feel sorry for anyone, except when I am buried, if Zixiu asks me for my mother, I don't know what to say.

Zixiu is Cao Ang, the eldest son of Cao Cao.

Cao Ang's biological mother, Liu, died young and was raised by a childless wife as her own.

Later, when Cao Ang was killed, Ding Furen cried her eyes out, often crying and scolding Cao Cao: You killed my son.

Cao Cao was annoyed and sent her back to her family, so she had such a statement before she died.

In fact, Cao Cao has made great efforts.

He went to Mrs. Ding's house to meet her personally, but Ding Furen sat in front of the loom and knitted her cloth. He didn't move and ignored her.

Cao Cao caressed her back and said very gently, shall we go home by car together? Ding Furen ignored him.

Cao Cao went to the door and turned to ask, will you come back with me? Ding Furen still ignored him.

Cao Cao had no choice but to break up with her.

With Cao Cao's bad temper and fierce personality, it is not easy to do this.

In addition, Cao Cao also asked Ding Furen to remarry and not let her be widowed, but she refused, and her parents did not dare.

6. Reformer

Like Zhuge Liang, Cao Cao is both the founder of the new order and the reformer of the old system.

Fan Wenlan's General History of China said that Cao Cao was in the north and Zhuge Liang was in Shu, all of which were "except some bad policies in the Eastern Han Dynasty".

In my opinion, the most positive thing about Cao Cao is that he wants to establish a new order.

As far as class relations are concerned, this new order belongs to civilians; Ideologically belonging to the Legalist school.

Therefore, like Cao Cao, it also needs to be discounted.

Because history has proved that the most suitable ruling class for the empire is the civilian landlord; The ideology most suitable for empire is not legalism.

After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the political line was neither Yuan Shao's "scholar-bureaucrat Confucianism" nor Cao Cao's "common people legalist school", but "common people Confucianism".

But it was only after 369 years of trial and error in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties that it was realized, and the aristocratic regime represented by Sima family also had historical inevitability.

Cao Cao is both ahead and wrong. How can he be unbeaten?

7. A rare child prodigy in ancient and modern times

For thousands of years, Cao Cao may be one of the most talked about historical figures, and there are still people defending him. It can be said that Cao Cao is a household name and slanders the world.

However, no one questioned Cao Cao's talent.

Cao Cao is a rare great strategist throughout the ages.

Cao Cao's military strategy is comparable to that of Han Xin and Tian Lei, so there are "soldiers have nothing to do with Sun Wu, and soldiers have nothing to do with Han Xin and Tsao Gong" (where did you go? Dr. He Beilun), and his own Art of War, Meng De's New Book and annotated Art of War can be described as both civil and military, combining theory with actual combat.

In addition, Cao Cao is a politician, strategist and writer, and he is the first of the "Three Caos and Seven Sons" in Jian 'an. His all-round military talents, strong political ambitions, straightforward lyrical and magnificent poems and so on. , since ancient times, in addition to * * * few people match.

Even the literati who don't like Cao Cao have to admit that "Cao Gong is agile and almost difficult to compete with the enemy, so he can rise up, win, and be a hero" (Yu Shinan.

See Tang Wen's Poetic Art (Volume XIII); Even his political opponents, Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei, have to say that "Cao Cao's ingenuity is unique to others, and he uses soldiers like Sun and Wu", and "the former emperor called Cao Cao a capable person" (see "Model"); The great leader even said frankly: "My heart is connected with Cao Cao", "majestic, generous, sad, real man, generous" ...

Mr. Lu Xun also said in the article "Wei and Jin demeanor and the relationship between articles and medicinal liquor": "Cao Cao is a very capable person, at least a hero.

Although I am not a member of Cao Cao's side, I always admire him anyway. "

8. Versatile talents

The History of the Three Kingdoms commented that Cao Cao was "an extraordinary man and an unparalleled leader"; Later generations praised him as an outstanding politician, strategist and writer in the history of the Chinese nation, a man with both civil and military skills and both literature and art.

Cao Cao's talents are varied. "The History of the Three Kingdoms" records that "climbing high must be endowed, and writing new poems is all about strings.

It's all natural laws, shooting birds by hand, bowing birds and beasts ... and building palaces and repairing instruments, all from each according to his ability. "

Cao Cao is not only a master of literature, but also a calligrapher, and he is also very accomplished in music.

People who have seen Cao Cao's calligraphy works in history all praise his book "golden flowers everywhere, exquisite and incomparable;" Jingyu sparkles, Yao Ruoxi. " "Pen and ink are bold and heroic. "Great beauty.

There were five calligraphers at the end of Han Dynasty, namely Cui Yuan, Cui Shi, Zhang Zhi, Zhang Chang and Cao Cao.

Liang Wajian, a calligraphy critic in the Southern Dynasties, divided the calligraphy works of ancient celebrities into three categories: upper, middle and lower, and each category was divided into upper, middle and lower categories. He ranked Cao Cao's calligraphy works as the best in China.

According to their artistic achievements, Zhang, a calligrapher and critic in the Tang Dynasty, divided them into three categories: those who are outstanding are gods, those who use skilled labor are wonderful, and those who are divorced from vulgarity are capable; He called Cao Cao's calligraphy works wonderful in his calligraphy review monograph Book End.

From this point of view, although Cao Cao's calligraphy works can not be regarded as excellent and top grade, they can also be regarded as famous calligraphers in China.

By rights, he is also a calligrapher.

Zhang Hua's "Natural History" said: "Heng Tan and Cai Yong are good at music, ... whether they are Mao or Lieneng." This shows that Cao Cao's musical talent has reached a fairly high level.

Cao Cao Philharmonic: "Advocating Excellence is always around, often from day to dusk".

What kind of music does he like? It is said that he doesn't like boring and changeable elegant music, but likes various, lively and distinctive pop music: that is, one person leads the singer, three people chorus, or one person plays the pipe, one person plays the string, one person beats the time, and leads the singer at the same time ... "Wei Wudi is the best"; This fresh, cheerful and changeable music aroused Cao Cao's creative desire.

Therefore, "Cao Cao created a large number of pop music lyrics and became the first literati poet in the history of literature to write pop music lyrics vigorously".

With Cao Cao's musical talent and the quality and quantity of lyrics, we are worthy of calling him an outstanding musician!

Cao Cao wrote a lot in his life: Hu Yinglin in the Ming Dynasty said in his Miscellaneous Poems: "Since the Han Dynasty, there have been rich articles and no Wei fighters.

Set to 30 volumes, Book of Changes 10 volume, New Records 10 volume, which is the richest in ancient and modern books. According to relevant research, "there are as many as 19 kinds of Cao Cao's works circulated by later generations." The number of Cao Cao's creations is superior to that of a generation, thus giving full play to the role of shocking and influencing a generation.