Source: classical papers.
Excerpt from the original text: Ordinary people are lofty, loyal to their own voices, suffering from self-awareness and claiming to be virtuous. The husband's text is the same, but it is different at the end. Beautiful cover, reasonable style, realistic inscription and beautiful poetry. These four subjects are different, so what you can do is partial subjects; Only communication can prepare the body.
Most people value the ancients, despise the present, advocate fame, ignore reality, fail to see their own shortcomings, and always think they are virtuous.
The essence of an article (expressing its content in words) is the same, but the details (genre and form) are different. Therefore, it is appropriate to play sparingly and criticize elegantly, letters and argumentations should be reasonable, inscriptions and obituaries should be appropriate, and poems should be gorgeous.
The styles of these four subjects are different, so people with culture (often) have preferences; Only a generalist can be good at all kinds of articles.
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Creation background
Before Jian 'an, literature was bound by Confucian classics and had almost no independent status. In its heyday, Han Fu was denounced by Yang Xiong as "the boy who carved insects and carved seals". (translation: articles written by children) ".
This has begun to link writing articles with thinking about the self-worth of individual life. Based on this, Cao Pi called on writers to follow the example of the ancient sages who "don't care about the world, keep quiet and don't think about recreation", and strive to change the current mental state of "being poor is afraid of cold and hunger, while being rich is greedy for pleasure", and cultivate one's morality with a super-utilitarian aesthetic mentality.
Cao Pi also consciously stood on the position of the ruling class in his paper to improve the status of literature.
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