[Collected Works of Cao Pi, the founder of the Jin Dynasty and the founder of the Wei Kingdom in the Three Kingdoms]
Emperor Wen of Wei, Cao Pi, was capable of both literary and martial arts, and was very handsome. His literary skills were comparable to Cao Zhi's, and his military skills could defeat Deng Zhan. He was a top intellectual figure in the Three Kingdoms era. The "Nine Ranks Zhongzheng System", the official selection system initiated and formulated by Cao Pi, was a beacon of light for aristocratic families. By the Western Jin Dynasty, a situation was finally formed in which "there were no poor families in the upper ranks and no noble families in the lower ranks"; his suppression of the Cao Wei clan was considered by the aristocratic families to be the beginning. The King of Ming; he was talented and intelligent since childhood, and his good education and growth environment gave him profound literary qualities; his achievements in governance also had an important influence on the development and prosperity of Chinese literature during this period. Cao Pi was the actual leader of the Ye literati group and played a key role in the spiritual structure of Jian'an literature. The resulting "Jian'an style" had a profound impact on later generations of literature.
Lu Xun: "Cao Pi said that poems and poems do not need to contain lessons, and opposed those opinions at that time that lessons should be included in poems and poems. From a modern literary perspective, Cao Pi's era can be said to be the 'era of literary self-consciousness', or as modern saying goes, it was a school of art for art's sake."
