Chapter 20 Cai Yan/The song "Hujia" moves through the ages

Cai Yan (177-?), a poet and qin player in the late Han Dynasty.The word Wenji, and the word Mingji.She is the daughter of the famous Cai Yong.Under the careful training of her father, Cai Wenji has been influenced by her eyes and ears since she was a child. She is not only erudite and proficient in poetry, but also good at rhythm, especially good at playing the piano. Her talent is good in itself.When Cai Wenji was six years old, one day, her father was playing the piano in the piano room, and there was a sound of "collapse", and a string broke.Wen Ji heard it, and said loudly to her father: "Dad, it must be the second string that is broken!" Cai Yong saw that it was the second string, and he was surprised. It is not easy.He also thought that she might have guessed it unintentionally, so he broke the fourth string on purpose, and then asked his daughter: "Wen Ji, guess again, which string is broken?" Wen Ji replied in response. : "I can hear it, it's the fourth string that's broken this time."

Cai Wenji quickly practiced a good piano.She followed her father since she was a child, and learned a lot of knowledge, becoming a talented woman.However, after the smart Cai Wenji grew up, her fate was very tragic. In 192 AD, Cai Wenji married Hedong Wei Zhongdao.Soon, her father was killed in Chang'an, and then her mother also died.In the second year after her parents died, Wen Ji's husband passed away again. She lost all her relatives in the world at once and became lonely. Dong Zhuo's retrograde movement in the court caused joint opposition from various local forces. Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang and moved his capital to Chang'an.After Dong Zhuo's death, his generals captured Chang'an again, and the scuffle between the warlords finally took shape. The Qiang and Hu fan soldiers took the opportunity to plunder the Central Plains. Cai Wenji and many captured women were taken to the Southern Huns. She became the wife of King Zuoxian. wife.

She lived in the Southern Huns for twelve years and gave birth to a pair of children. Cao Cao gradually unified northern China in the melee of warlords.He and Cai Yong were old friends. Later, Cao Cao ordered Dong Si to go to the Southern Huns to redeem Cai Wenji, who had been in the Southern Huns for twelve years, with gold, jade, brocade and silk.Cao Cao wanted Wen Ji to come back because he wanted to reuse her and give full play to her talents. He wanted her to inherit her father Cai Yong's legacy and help write the "Book of Continued Han". Cai Wenji fell into deep conflict and pain. She really wanted to go back to her hometown where she had been away for many years, and wanted to complete her father's unfinished business. biological children.After returning to the Central Plains, she wrote the famous "Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia". In the poem, she wrote: "Yue Han country enters Hucheng, and it is better to lose one's family than to have no life. The felt fur is the clothes and the flesh and blood are shocked. I don’t think about my hometown day and night, and nothing is more painful than me when I come back to my country.” Hunger." "The mountains are high and the land is wide, I can see you for no time, and I dream of you in the middle of the night. In the dream, I hold my hand and I feel happy and sad. After I feel pain, my heart hurts and there is no rest."

Cai Wenji wrote it into qin music, which deeply moved future generations. Cai Wenji returned to her hometown of Chenliu County, and under the arrangement of Cao Cao, she married Dong Si, the school captain of Tuntian, at the age of thirty-five. Cao Cao is also a famous great poet, he especially loves books.Cai Wenji told him that Cao Cao was very envious of the 4,000 volumes of books in his home, but Cai Wenji told him that after several wars, all his father's books had been lost, and Cao Cao was deeply disappointed.When she heard that Cai Wenji could recite 400 chapters, she was overjoyed.Cai Wenji silently wrote 400 articles from memory, and the texts were accurate, which shows how talented Cai Wenji is.

Cai Wenji's works handed down from generation to generation besides "Hujia Eighteen Beats" also include "Poetry of Sadness and Indignation", which is known as the first autobiographical five-character long narrative poem created by literati in the history of Chinese poetry. It is passionate and sad, and it is unique in Jian'an poetry .