What does it mean to boil beans and burn beans, and beans cry in the kettle

It means that the bean stalks are burning under the pot and the beans are crying inside the pot.

Source: Three Kingdoms Cao Zhi "Seven Steps Poem":

Boiled beans are used as soup, and soy beans are used as juice.

The beans are burning under the kettle, and the beans are crying in the kettle.

This is born from the same root, so why is it too anxious to fry each other.

Translation: The beans are boiling in the pot to strain out the residue of the beans and leave the bean juice.

Come and make the soup. The bean stalks are burning under the pot, and the beans are crying inside the pot. Beans and bean straw originally grew from the same root, so how could bean straw be so urgent to torment beans.

The bean stalk burns under the pot and the beans cry in the pot. This poem is derived from the "Seven Steps Poem".

The beans are boiled in the pot in order to filter out the residue of the beans and leave the bean juice to make a paste-like food. The beanstalk burns under the pot and the beans cry in the pot.

Phrase note: 箕 (qí): bean stalk, dried and used as firewood. kettle (fǔ): A type of pot in ancient times.

It is a poem by Cao Zhi, a poet of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period. The rhetorical device of anthropomorphism is used. This poem uses the same root and beans to metaphorize the brothers who share the same father and mother, and uses the fried beans to metaphorize the brother Cao Pi, who is a compatriot and flesh brother, mutilating his younger brother, expressing his strong dissatisfaction with Cao Pi, vividly and in simple terms reflecting the cruel struggle within the feudal ruling group and the poet's own difficult situation, depressed and angry thoughts and feelings.

This poem is purely written in a figurative way, the language is simple, the meaning is clear, there is no need to explain more, only a little dredging in individual words and sentences, and its meaning is self-evident.

Cao Zhi was Cao Cao's son and Cao Pi's younger brother. Cao Zhi is quick to think. Cao Pi ascended the throne, and he was afraid of Cao Zhi's talent, so he found an opportunity to ask Cao Zhi to make poems within seven steps, and he would be killed if he did not succeed.

Cao Zhi responded to the sound and wrote this poem to satirize Cao Pi, saying that when the beans were boiled, the beans were burning under the kettle, and the beans were crying in the kettle.

Cao Zhi means to say: Brother siblings, just like Na Dou and Na Qi, are always born to the same mother, why do you as an elder brother have no thoughts of brotherhood, why do you want to harm me, and you are so anxious? These four sentences are famous sentences for singing brotherly feelings, and every time they are used by later generations to ridicule those who do not know how to love brothers, "this is the same root" is often used as a metaphor for brotherhood.

Cao Zhi's "Seven Steps Poem" during the Three Kingdoms period. The whole poem is: boiled beans burn beans, and beans cry in the kettle. This is the same root, why is it too anxious to fry each other!

During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao had two sons, the eldest son was named Cao Pi and the younger son was named Cao Zhi. Cao Pi wanted to kill his younger brother in order to take over his father's class, but he had no reason. One day when he was in the hall he said:

Cao Zhi, your literary level is very high, if you can compose a poem within seven steps, I will reward you, if you can't say it, I will kill you. Everyone was worried about Cao Zhi, but he thought for a while, stood up and said as he walked: "Boil the beans and burn the beans, and the beans are crying in the kettle."

This is the same root, why is it too anxious to fry each other! This ancient poem was written in this context, "It is born from the same root, why is it too anxious to fry each other" means: We were originally brothers born to a mother, and we killed me because of the power and skill to fight each other, why bother.

Boil beans with bean stalks, beans cry in the pot, fratricidal meaning.

The author is: Cao Zhi, poem title: "Seven Steps Poem".

The meaning of the poem is: boil the beans to make the bean soup, and the beans cry in the pot. The bean stalk and the bean grow from the same root, so why do they torture each other so hard?

The Seven Steps Poem is a poem by Cao Zhi, a poet of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period.

This poem uses the same root and beans to metaphorize the brothers who share the same father and mother, and uses the fried beans to metaphorize the brother Cao Pi, who is a compatriot and flesh brother, mutilating his younger brother, expressing his strong dissatisfaction with Cao Pi, vividly and in simple terms reflecting the cruel struggle within the feudal ruling group and the poet's own difficult situation, depressed and angry thoughts and feelings.

"Seven Steps Poem" Two Han · Cao Zhi.

Boiled beans burn beans, and weep under the kettle.

I'm acquainted with you, and I'm just in time to hold a teaching chair.

Translation: Burn bean stalks to cook beans, bean stalks cry under the pot: I was burned to ashes but you were cooked, just in time to go to the banquet!

Phrase Notes:1萁 (qí): soybean straw.

2.釜 (fǔ): Pot. The first two sentences are from Cao Zhi's "Seven Steps Poem".

3.Ember: What is left after an object has burned. It is used as a verb to mean to burn to ashes.

4.Chair: A banquet for teachers.

Cao Zhi (192 232), whose name is Zijian, was born in Peiguo (now Bozhou City, Anhui Province). He is a famous writer of Cao Wei of the Three Kingdoms and a representative of Jian'an literature. The son of Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei, and the younger brother of Cao Pi, Emperor Wen of Wei, was King Chen during his lifetime, and was nicknamed "Si" after his death, so he was also called King Chen Si.

Later generations called him and Cao Cao and Cao Pi together as the "Three Caos" because of his literary attainments, and Xie Lingyun, a writer from the Southern Song Dynasty, had the evaluation of "there is only one stone in the world, and Cao Zijian monopolizes eight buckets". Wang Shizhen talked about the poets who can be called "immortals" in the 2,000 years since the Han and Wei dynasties, Cao Zhi, Li Bai, and Su Shi.

1. Meaning: The bean straw is burning under the pot, and the beans are crying in the pot. Minju.

2. Original poem: Boiled beans burn beans, soybeans are juiced, the beans are burned under the kettle, and the beans are crying in the kettle.

3. Cao Zhi (192-232), Zijian, the third son of Cao Cao. He was the most famous writer in Qiaobi during the Jian'an period. Judging from the literary works he has handed down, his achievements are indeed above the general writers of the Jian'an Hail Period.

1. Interpretation of the kettle where beans cry in the kettle: pot.

2. Original text: "Seven Steps Poem".

Author] Cao Zhi [Dynasty] Three Kingdoms Wei.

Boiled beans are used as soup, and the soybeans are used as juice.

The beans are burning under the kettle, and the beans are crying in the kettle.

This is born from the same root, so why is it too anxious to fry each other.

3. Translation: Boiling beans to make bean soup, I want to filter out the residue of the beans and leave the bean juice to make soup. The bean stalks are burning under the pot, and the beans are crying inside the pot. Beans and bean straw originally grew from the same root, so how could bean straw be so urgent to torment beans.