In order to really approach this poem, we should first understand the background of the author's time when he wrote this poem, which is a poem written by a down-and-out literati in the late Han Dynasty, and with this premise, it will be easier for us to understand.

The literati of the late Han Dynasty who sighed "why don't you take a high step, first take Lujin" were facing a depressing era when the monarchs were far-reaching and the eunuchs were in the way, so for those literati whose ambitions were difficult to pay, their hearts were extremely painful.

In the first couplet of this poem, the author writes about a high-rise building that is as high as the floating clouds, this high-rise building is so magnificent, and it is very familiar in a trance: "Intersecting and sparse Qi windows, A Pavilion triple steps" - carved with patterned wooden strips, staggered into Qiwen panes, surrounded by high eaves of pavilions, stairs with cascading triple, is exactly the imperial palace weather that the poet has seen. Therefore, the first couplet seems to be a description of the scene, but it is actually a reflection of the emotion and loss in his heart of "Lingyun Zhi, not the temple door".

The jaw couplet wrote that there was a sad string sound on the top of the tall building, who was playing this song? Here, the author uses allusions and uses the desolate strings played by the wife of Qi Liang to put forward two major thoughts: first, why is there such a sad song on such a majestic and magnificent tall building? Second, why is the person who plays and sings the wife of Qi Liang who cried and collapsed the city tower because her husband died on the battlefield?

And in the neck couplet, it is written that the person who plays the piano, the music played is sad and wandering, and he has to play three sighs, even if he plays those impassioned music, there will be residual sorrow interspersed in it, which can be said to create an atmosphere of grief and indignation.

So, in the tail couplet, the author began to express his chest directly, for the reader to solve the puzzle, why is the person who plays the song so sad? because no one knows the misery in his heart, and he can't find a real soulmate, in fact, seeing this, I believe that everyone has a little understanding, in fact, this person is not someone else, it is the author himself, his talent is not met, his bosom friend is difficult to find, all of which are very directly revealed here. But in the last sentence, he still expressed his belief that he would never give up, believing that he would one day become that big bird and strive to spread his wings and fly high.

Ruan Ji, who lived during the Three Kingdoms period, was a confused and pessimistic person, who regarded the "ritual law" advocated by Confucianism as a terrible and hateful thing that "bound the people", and the sacred principles they advocated were nothing more than "exhausting the heavens and the earth and all things, in order to serve the infinite desires of the voice." Therefore, his reluctance to dedicate himself to these principles, but not knowing what the value and meaning of life really is, makes his poems often show a burning mood and pessimistic overtones, and this poem is no different.

In the first two lines of the poem, the author writes about the peach and plum trees in the East Garden, and people have stepped on a path under the tree, which shows how lively it was. But in the next two verses, the poet writes that when the autumn wind blows, the peach and plum will begin to wither, and eventually only the bare branches will remain.

From this, the poet realized a truth: there is prosperity and decline, prosperity must be haggard, and today's high hall building will soon collapse and become a desolate place overgrown with thorns, wolfberries and other plants. - This is the poetry of the fifth and sixth lines.

Since everything is fleeting, and no matter how prosperous it is, there will be a lonely day, then what reason do I have to care about these worldly illustrious, famous, and wealthy? Therefore, the author writes in the next four sentences: In this case, let me ride a horse to the West Mountain to live in seclusion; although I will abandon my wife and children, I can't even keep myself in this world, so why should I be reluctant to give up on my wife?

However, the author is entangled and painful after all, and he also knows very well in his heart that the path he found for himself is not a real clear path, so he writes in two sentences that when the peach and plum begin to wither, although the weeds are still very dense, at the end of the year, the frost covers the weeds, and the weeds are finished. This is the poet's rejection of the path of liberation that he himself has found.

Zhong Rong once wrote in "Poems": "Cao Zhi's poems are full of style, the rhetoric is very gorgeous and luxuriant, and the emotions are also elegant and resentful, and the body is cultured. Liu Xian's "Wenxin Carving Dragon: Ming Poems" said: "(Cao Zhi's poems) five words are very fluent, which is so clear and beautiful; So you have to make yourself very fair, Uncle Ye has warmth, Mao Xian condenses freshness, and Jing Yangzhen is very beautiful. If it is good, then you can build and rectify, if it is beautiful, it is too chong, and it is a business trip. ”

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From the above-mentioned "extremely high backbone, flourishing rhetoric", we can first draw a small conclusion, Cao Zhi's poems are very literati, and his poems are especially prominent in this "generosity" and "backbone", and at the same time, the rhetoric is also very gorgeous.

Cao Zhi's poems can be roughly divided into two periods, the early stage is mainly optimistic and cheerful, bold and handsome, but in the later stage, it becomes hidden and deep, sad and angry, but the "generous" and "willful" spirit is always full of aggression.

The reasons for this change in Cao Zhi's poetic style are actually not complicated, and even like most literati, the poetic style is more open when the fate is good, and the poetry style naturally becomes deeper when the fate is bad.

Cao Zhi lived in a wealthy environment in the early days, and together with Cao Pi, he interacted with Cao Cao's subordinate literati as a noble son, so he also wrote a lot of narratives about banquets and tours, singing and giving answers, such as "Public Banquet", "Serving the Prince Sitting", "Cockfighting", etc., which are generally peaceful, ornate in rhetoric, and very aristocratic. There are also works of this kind such as Cao Pi and Wang Cang, and Cao Zhi is the most prominent. Of course, this kind of poetry rarely has a profound connotation, but as a literary phenomenon, it reflects the continuous expansion of poetic themes in the Jian'an era, reflecting more of people's daily life. At the same time, it also reflects that with the emergence of literati and literary groups, the entertainment and social functions of poetry have become more obvious. In the later period of Cao Zhi, under the suspicion and persecution of Cao Pi's father and son, he endured humiliation and survival, and his mood was extremely sad and depressed, and the content and style of his works changed significantly. That kind of graceful and luxurious poems rarely appear again, and some works that express the desire to be unwilling to be idle and demand to display their talents are not as heroic and confident as their earlier works, but appear deep and sad. More works focus on the disappointment of personal fate and resentment against Cao Pi's political clique. These poems are full of the pain of oppression, the yearning for a free life, and the sorrow of a premonition that life will be consumed in humiliation and inaction, and that it will lose its rightful value.

Tao Yuanming is an idyllic poet, his poems have the characteristics of simplicity and plain nature, and the artistic law of "style is people" has been well proved in Tao Yuanming. Reading Tao Yuanming's poems always has the feeling of reading poems as if you are seeing others. His poems are not a play on words, but an expression of the poet's life and true feelings. Judging from his works, he is honest and willful in shaping the imagery of his works, not disguised, not pretentious, not swayed by the world, and does his own thing. The poet's lifelong pursuit is simple, natural, straightforward, and upright. This kind of truth-seeking thinking is the pursuit and yearning for naturalism. For example, what he depicts in "Drinking" is his daily life, "picking chrysanthemums", and "flying birds", and finally mentioning a sentence "There is a true meaning in this, and I have forgotten to distinguish it", indicating that he really likes this life from the bottom of his heart, and in just a few sentences, his frankness and nature are expressed.

And Xie Lingyun, as mentioned by the author above, wrote the poem "Xin Jae-jun". The landscape poems pioneered by Xie Lingyun introduce the beauty of nature into the poems, making the landscape an independent aesthetic object. His creation not only liberated poetry from the indifferent metaphysics, but also strengthened the artistic skills and expressiveness of poetry, and influenced a generation of poetic styles.