As graceful as a startled giant, as graceful as a swimming dragon, with brilliant autumn chrysanthemums and gorgeous spring pine trees. It seems like the moon is covered by light clouds, and the snow flutters like the flowing wind. Looking at it from a distance, it is as bright as the sun rising as the morning glow; looking at it from a distance, it is as bright as a flower rising from Lubo.
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Luo Shen Fu (Cao Zhi's poems and poems in the Three Kingdoms)
"Luo Shen Fu" is a famous poem written by Cao Zhi, a writer from Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period in China. Cao Zhi imitated the description of the Wushan goddess in Song Yu's "Ode to the Goddess" of Chu State during the Warring States Period, and narrated the story of his encounter with the Luo God by the Luoshui River. He borrowed much from Song Fu in terms of plot and character description. This poem fictionalizes the author's encounter with Luo Shen and their longing and love for each other. The image of Luo Shen is extremely beautiful, and the love between man and God is vague and confusing. However, due to the different ways of humans and gods, they cannot be combined. In the end, it expresses infinite sadness and melancholy.
The whole article can be roughly divided into six paragraphs: the first paragraph is about the "beauty" Mi Fei standing on the cliff when the author returned to the fiefdom from Luoyang; the second paragraph is about the beauty of Mi Fei's appearance and clothing; the third paragraph is about the beauty of Mi Fei's appearance and clothing; The author of this paragraph loves Luo Shen very much. She knows etiquette and is good at speaking. Although the author has expressed his true feelings to her, given her tokens, and had a date, he is worried about being deceived and expresses his deep love for her. The fourth paragraph writes Luo Shen as " The situation after feeling the sincerity of "King"; the fifth paragraph is where the whole article is conveyed; the sixth paragraph describes the author's longing for Luo Shen after the farewell. The whole poem has gorgeous diction, delicate descriptions, rich imagination, and lingering thoughts, as if there is sustenance.
Luo Shen, also known as Mi Fei, is a goddess in myths and legends in ancient China. She is the daughter of the Fuxi family. She came to the world and came to Luoyang because she was infatuated with the beautiful scenery on both sides of the Luo River. Cao Zhi's "Luo Shen Fu" is a masterpiece that describes her through the ages (whether it describes Zhen Mi through her is controversial). The "Xiao Kuang" chapter in Volume 311 of "Taiping Guangji" and the "Legend" chapter in Volume 32 of "Leishu" record an affair between Xiao Kuang and the Luo Goddess.
Creative background
According to the preface, Cao Zhi’s poem was written by Cao Zhi after he entered Luoyang, the capital of the imperial court, in the third year of Huangchu (222), when Emperor Wen of Wei Dynasty passed by on his way back to Juancheng, his fiefdom. When he was in Luoshui, he wrote it "in response to Song Yu's affair with the king and goddess of Chu". At that time, not long after Cao Pi took the throne, he killed Cao Zhi's close friends Ding Yi and Ding Zhi. After Cao Zhi came to the country, he also reported to the supervisors that he was "drunk and insolent, and threatened the envoys". He was demoted to Anxiang Marquis, and later changed the title to Juancheng Marquis, and then became the Juancheng King (see "Three Kingdoms·Chen"). "Si Wang Biography").
These are undoubtedly one after another heavy blows to Cao Zhi, who is determined to "work hard for the country, benefit the people, build eternal careers, and make merits with gold and stone" ("Ancestral Letters with Yang De"). One can imagine his depression and anguish.