In a helpless situation, he cried out for help. Since he couldn't return to his hometown, he had to drag the returnees home with letters. I really hope that there is such a person, who can treat him to eat fish! Unfortunately, even such an idea may not be realized.

Homesickness:

The wind was whistling, and the carts were rushing to dust. A road looked up, and it made me really sad in my heart.

The wind blew and swirled, and the cart sped like lightning. When I looked up at an avenue, I felt miserable.

Who is going to cook the fish and taste it? Big pot small pot I help. Which one is going back to the West? Please bring a good letter to your hometown.

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National Style: Cao Feng

The State of Cao was a vassal state of King Wu of Zhou to his younger brother Cao Shu Zhenduo in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, probably in the area of Heze, Dingtao and Cao County in the southwest of today's Shandong Province. In 487 BC, the state of Cao was destroyed by Song Jinggong. "Cao Feng" is a poem in this region.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Cao Guo became a victim of the Jin and Chu struggles for hegemony. In 637 BC, Chong'er, the prince of the Jin Kingdom, passed through the Cao State during his fall and was treated rudely by the Duke of Cao. In the battle of Chengpu of Jin and Chu, when the Jin State attacked Cao and Wei to rescue the Song State, Cao Gonggong was also captured. In the mid-to-late Spring and Autumn period, the Song State attacked the Cao State. In the late Spring and Autumn Period, Cao Boyang, who was not self-sufficient, turned his back on the Jin State and intervened in the government affairs of the Song State, which led to the Song Jinggong crusade against the Cao State, and the Jin State did not save him when he saw death. In 487 BC, the Song State killed Cao Boyang, and the Cao State was destroyed. Cao State experienced a total of 26 generations, 556 years, and was a second-rate vassal state in the eastern part of the Central Plains during the Spring and Autumn Period, without great outstanding performance. Later, the descendants of the Cao State took the original country name Cao as their surname, which became an origin of the surname Cao.

There are four poems in "Cao Feng", they are "Mayfly", "Waiting for People", "Dove" and "Xia Quan". Below, let's take a good look at these four poems in "Cao Feng"!

"Mayfly": An exclamation about the transience of life

Mayflies are small insects that grow in the Mizusawa area, and their larval stages are relatively long, with some species living for up to two or three years. After becoming an adult, they do not drink or eat, they fly in the air to mate, and after completing the continuation of their species, they end their lives, and generally die in the twilight of life. The mayfly is also a very beautiful little insect, its body is weak, it has a pair of completely transparent wings, and two long tail whiskers, and when it flutters in the air, its posture is very delicate and moving. Mayflies like to fly in groups at sunset, and when they are in full bloom, they fall to the ground after death, accumulating in a thick layer. Therefore, the death of such a small thing will be very eye-catching, even thrilling.

More than 2,000 years ago, someone sensitively discovered this, and with the help of this little worm that died in the twilight of life, he wrote about the short-term beauty of fragile life before it died, as well as the confusion about the eventual extinction.

It is said that it is a hundred years of life, but in fact, we have all said more, and it is usually only a few decades old. But compared to people's greed for life, decades is far from enough. Moreover, as a self-conscious creature, human beings can become aware of the shadow of death in the process of their own existence, so the feeling of the shortness of life becomes more and more intense. It is beautiful to be alive, and man is different from all other creatures, he knows how to decorate himself in a human way, and he knows how to pursue a beautiful posture. However, looking at it in the shadow of death, or seeing so many separations of life and death, the decoration and posture of a short life is a necessary process of life, and it is also a helplessness and great sorrow for the end of life. Therefore, the life process of the mayfly in the twilight of life and death, so that people who like to think about life will definitely have some understanding, and this emotion is complex.

The mayfly is weak and beautiful, even if its life is short, it knows how to appreciate itself, otherwise it will not show off its bright wings and fresh face at the moment of death. Regardless of whether life is long or short, life is only once, from the mayfly, we seem to be able to see a kind of extravagant gorgeousness and a kind of unreal brilliance, which seems to be an expression of the little mayfly's love for life. We often praise beauty, but beauty is often synonymous with a flash in the pan, floating like a dream, life is really sad!

Temporary depression is also a natural state of man. Once people are in a depressed environment, they ask themselves: Who are you? Where are you from? Where are you going? The sorrow in my heart slowly spread. Especially in ancient times, when there was no strong religion, the human soul was particularly prone to being overshadowed by sorrow because of the inability to give reassuring answers to the questions of life and death. But from another point of view, the sorrow, confusion, and questioning of death are, in the final analysis, an expression of attachment to life, which is also the most natural requirement of the human heart. "When life is long, be generous and work hard", which is also the basic face of life.

Because life is short, we need to do something meaningful:

The wings of the mayfly are as distinct as if they were dressed in clothes. The sorrow of my heart, I don't know where I belong?

The wings of a mayfly are ornate like a garment. The sorrow of my heart, I don't know where my rest is?

How shiny the mayflies are, as white as snow in a dress. I don't know where the sorrow of my heart ends?

"Waiting for People": A person who has no talent, no virtue and no ability, but is in a high position

Good people sink into the bureaucracy, and mediocre people occupy high positions, such a reality really needs to be ironic. The little officials who greeted the guests were of a humble status, carrying weapons and toiling on duty on the road; And some vulgar people have a very high official position, a lot of pomp, and a luxurious life. 赤芾 (fú), is the red knee cover, knee cover is a large scarf around the front of the clothes, used to cover the thighs to the knees of clothing, is the doctor and above officials can wear clothes.

Standing on the beam of the fish, the pelican (tíhú) only needs to stretch its neck and peck with its long beak to eat the fish, without entering the water or wetting its wings. Fish beam is a fence or fence made of wooden stakes, firewood and other materials, placed in the river, is a kind of facility to hold back water for fishing. Pelicans stand on the fish beam to catch fish, which is actually a practice of getting fish for nothing. And those officials wearing high-grade red fu, enjoy all kinds of privileges, but they are incompetent, and they are useless, and the pelican stretches their necks on the fish beam to eat fish.

In addition, those pelicans, not only do they not have to wet their wings, but even their pointed beaks can eat fish without getting wet. Because some fish sometimes jump out of the water and jump onto the fish beam. In this way, the pelican standing on the fish beam can easily catch the fish without even getting its pointed beak wet. Compared with those high-ranking officials and nobles, not only do they get nothing for nothing, but they are also irresponsible in the marriage of men and women, violating the socially recognized ethical norms, and arbitrarily abandoning their wives and concubines. This group of people is not only inconsistent in appearance and appearance, unworthy of talent, but also corrupt in character, which is really hateful.