The first piano girl in the ages

Mondo History Updated on 2024-02-09

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a little girl, when she was three years old, she could identify which string was broken by the sound of the piano, and later generations were praised as "the first piano girl in the ages", she was erudite and talented, good at poetry, calligraphy, and piano, and was a famous female writer, she was Cai Wenji.

Cai Wenji, formerly known as Cai Yan, the word Zhaoji, and his father Cai Yong was a great Confucian in the late Han Dynasty.

Cai Wenji has had a bumpy life and experienced many hardships and setbacks, which have shaped her tenacious and self-reliant character.

She was born in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, when the society was in turmoil, the warlords were divided, Cai Wenji's father Cai Yong was ** by Dong Zhuo, she was also forced to marry a frail and sick person, and after her husband died, she was taken captive by the Huns, and she was not redeemed until Cao Cao unified the north.

Cai Wenji's father, Cai Yong, is proficient in calligraphy and good at music, and Cai Wenji has been deeply inherited by Cai Yong since she was a child, which is why she was able to identify which string was broken by the sound of the piano when she was three years old. Her first husband was Wei Zhongdao of the Hedong Wei family, but Wei Zhongdao was frail and sick since childhood, and Cai Wenji died not long after she got married. After that, she was robbed by King Zuoxian of the Xiongnu in the war, and lived in the north for twelve years, having two sons. After Cao Cao unified the north, he spent a lot of money to redeem her and marry Dong Ci, and she finally lived a stable life.

Cai Wenji has works that have been handed down to future generations, among which the two poems of "Poems of Grief and Indignation" and "Eighteen Beats of Hu Ji" are the most famous. "Poems of Grief and Indignation" is one of five words, and the whole poem has one hundred and eight sentences describing his own experience in the late Han Dynasty and the suffering of the people in the late Han Dynasty; The second is the commotion. "Eighteen Beats of Hu Ji" is said to have been composed when Cai Wenji returned to Han, reflecting Cai Wenji's longing for her hometown and her ambivalence about not being separated from her flesh and blood.

Because she is deeply influenced by the family environment and has rich life experience, she has a very high attainment in poetry, calligraphy and **, the Tang Dynasty poet Han Yu said"Zhonglang has a woman who can pass on the business"。

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