Green and purple stripes, leisurely in my heart, how to solve my worries? What does Du Kang mean?

Blue-collar students, you make me miss you day and night. By what to alleviate depression? Only binge drinking can set you free.

Source: short songs by Cao Cao, a politician and writer at the end of Han Dynasty.

Excerpt from the original text: Sing a song about wine, life geometry! For example, morning dew is much more difficult to go to Japan. Be generous, and your troubles will be unforgettable. How to solve your worries? Only Du Kang. Qingqing is your collar, YY is my miss. But for your sake, I've thought it over.

Singing to wine, life is short, and the sun and the moon fly like a shuttle. Just like the morning dew is fleeting, there are too many lost days! The songs on the table are passionate and generous, and melancholy has filled my heart for a long time. By what to alleviate depression? Only binge drinking can set you free. Blue-collar students, you make me miss you day and night. It is because of you that I have been chanting deeply to this day.

About the author: Cao Cao (155-0315,220) was born in Mengde, Yi Geely, Xiao Zi, Pei Guoqiao (now Bozhou, Anhui), Han nationality. An outstanding politician, strategist, writer and calligrapher in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

The founders of the Cao Wei regime in the Three Kingdoms conquered all directions in the name of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, wiped out the separatist forces such as Er Yuan, Lu Bu, Liu Biao and Han Sui at home, surrendered the southern Xiongnu, Wu Huan and Xianbei abroad, and unified the northern part of China.

The theme of the extended material "Singing to Wine" is very clear, that is, the author hopes to have a large number of talents for his own use. In his political activities, in order to expand his ruling base among civilian landlords and crack down on reactionary hereditary forces, Cao Cao once strongly emphasized "meritocracy", and for this reason, he successively issued orders to seek talents, recruit scholars and escape.

The "short song" is actually a "song of seeking virtue", and because it adopts the form of poetry and contains rich lyrical elements, it can play a unique infectious role, effectively publicize his persistence and cooperate with his decrees.

Generally speaking, this poem, like Cao Cao's other poems, such as Good Li Xing, Nine-Nine Lines, and Crying in the Han Dynasty, is a highly political poem, mainly serving the political line and strategy implemented by Cao Cao at that time. However, its political content and significance are completely integrated into the rich lyrical artistic conception.

The whole poem gives full play to the characteristics of poetry, accurately and skillfully uses metaphor, and achieves the goal of combining reason with emotion and touching. At that time, Cao Cao was able to achieve the expected social effect according to the special laws of lyric poetry, and this creative experience is obviously worth learning from later generations.

At the same time, because Cao Cao's emphasis on "meritocracy" at that time had certain progressive significance, his highly artistic performance on the theme of "seeking talents" should also be affirmed by history.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Two Short Songs