Cao Zhi developed this trend, and organically combined lyric and narrative, so that the five-character poems can not only describe complex events, but also express tortuous psychological feelings, greatly enriching its artistic functions.
He has more than 90 poems, including more than 60 five-character poems. His poems not only embody the elegance of The Book of Songs, but also contain the profound and strange interest of The Songs of the South. It not only inherits the brushwork of reflecting reality in Han Yuefu, but also retains the warm and sad artistic conception of 19 ancient poems. Cao Zhi's poetry has its own distinctive and unique style, which has completed the transformation from Yuefu folk songs to literati poems.
During the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, he was promoted to a model article. His representative works include Luo Shen Fu, White Horse, Seven Wounded Poems, etc. Because of his literary attainments, later generations are called "Three Caos" with Cao Cao and Cao Pi. His poems are famous for their vigorous brushwork and gorgeous words, and there are 30 volumes left, which have been lost. Today, The Collection of Cao Zijian was compiled by Song people.
Cao Zhi's prose also has the characteristics of "appealing to both refined and popular tastes and elegant style", and its genre is rich and diverse, which makes him make outstanding achievements in this respect. Xie Lingyun, a writer in the Southern Song Dynasty, commented that "there is only one stone in the world, and Cao Zijian monopolizes eight fights". Zhong Rong, a literary critic, also praised Cao Zhi for his "extraordinary personality, colorful words, elegant feelings, elegant posture and outstanding style of writing." ?
He is listed as the poet with the highest quality of poetry. Wang Shizhen evaluated the poets who have lived for two thousand years since the Han and Wei Dynasties as "immortals", including Cao Zhi, Li Bai and Su Shi.
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