Cai Wenji was originally named Wen Xi, Cai Yan. Cai Wenji is well-read and proficient in music. In the early days, he married Wei Zhongdao in Hedong, and Wei Zhongdao died early. They had no children, so Cai Yan returned to his home.

In the second year of Xingping, Dong Zhuo and Xiongnu made an insurrection in the Central Plains, and the Huns took the opportunity to plunder, and Cai Yan was taken away by Zuo. Cai Yan lived in the north for twelve years and gave birth to two children.

In the eleventh year of Jian 'an, Cao Cao always loved literature and calligraphy, and often had literary and calligraphy exchanges with Cai Yan's father Cai Yong. When Cao Cao saw that Cai Yong had no children, he redeemed Cai Yan from the Huns with resplendence and married Cai Yan to Dong Si.

Then Dong Si committed a capital crime, Cai Yan went to intercede with Cao Cao, and Dong Si also went. At that time, Cao Cao was hosting a banquet for officials and celebrities and said to all the guests, "Cai Yong's daughter is outside. Let everyone meet her today. "

Cai Yan's long hair and bare feet, kowtowing and confession, clear words and sour emotions touched all the guests. However, Cao Cao said, "However, the documents for reducing the crime have been sent out. What should we do? "

Cai Yan said, "There are thousands of good horses in your stable and countless brave foot soldiers. You also set aside a fast horse to save a dying life? " Cao Cao was finally moved by Cai Wenji and pardoned Dong Si. After returning to China, Cai Yan wrote two sorrowful poems besides grief and indignation. Since then, there has been no record of Cai Yan, and the date of death is unknown.

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After Cai Yan returned to Han Dynasty, she wrote two sorrowful and indignant poems, one in five words and one in Sao style. Among them, Wuyanben, which focuses on Sentimental Parting, is a narrative poem with emotional latitude and the first autobiographical long narrative poem created by literati in the history of China poetry.

Zhang Yugu, a poetic theorist in the Qing Dynasty, once wrote a five-character poem praising Cai Yan: "Wenxi only wants to crush Wen Jun, and' grief and indignation' is long. The old Du family lived in the Seventh Division of Cao Cao, and the incense can also reach the hairpin skirt. "

Cai Yan's talent overwhelmed Zhuo Wenjun, a talented woman in the Han Dynasty, and his five-character narrative poems were all influenced by Cai Yan. The first and second sections of Poems of Sorrow and Indignation focus on expressing emotions, and briefly describe the experience of Hu Dengzi's return to Han and his capture.

The natural scenery in the middle is used to render Cai Yan's sad mood of leaving his hometown. In the description of these scenery and human feelings, Cai Yan described their differences from her hometown, Midland, in order to describe her deep sorrow and indignation in this different environment from Midland.

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