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27: 681: 652:, the now-ruined Bronze Bird Terrace joins historical imperial harems in the tradition of "palace resentment poems" (宮怨詩), where the women within were depicted as abandoned and wasting away their youths. Cao Cao, the harem master in these works, became satirized and criticized for his sensuality and obsession with the women entertainers, who he trapped in his terrace even after his death. It is from this tradition that the late-Tang poet 241:, and made Ye his capital next year. Known for his extravagance and indulgence, Shi Hong utilized up to 400,000 workers on construction projects in his new capital city along with Chang'an and Luoyang. The Three Terraces of Ye, which had fallen into disrepair up to this point, were transformed by these constructions to be "more adorned and embellished than they were at the beginning of Wei". The Bronze Bird Terrace was heightened to 12 167:, and had ample street-level access connecting them with the rest of the city. Underneath the terraces were storage facilities for grain, salt, water, fuel, graphite, and—in the case of the Ice Well Terrace—ice. Around the terraces sprang the Bronze Bird Garden (銅雀園), also known as the West Garden (西園) since it was immediately west of the palace. The garden took up the whole northwestern quadrant of the city. 637:'s elegy for Cao Cao. In the elegy itself, written around 298, Lu Ji creates a scene where instead of Cao Cao's sons, it is the female entertainers who were to gaze at Cao Cao's tomb from the Bronze Bird Terrace. At the end of the elegy, Lu Ji asks rhetorically: "Ascending Bronze Bird Terrace, they mourned together; Their beautiful eyes were fixed in a distant gaze, but what could they see?" The 140:
Hall of Civil Splendour (文昌殿) which was to become the centerpiece of Ye's palace complex. The Bronze Bird Terrace was erected in the northwest corner of the city in 210 as part of these works. It was soon joined by two shorter terraces in 213, the Metal Tiger Terrace (金虎臺) to the south and the Ice Well Terrace (冰井臺) to the north. Together, they are referred to as the Three Terraces (三臺).
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As a result, an enraged Zhou Yu vows to go to war with Cao Cao and defeats him in the Battle of Red Cliffs in 208. Historically, the battle predates the terrace by two years, and Cao Zhi's poem was written two years after Zhou Yu's death. Nonetheless, the story of the Bronze Bird Terrace and the Qiao
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My concubines and entertainers should all be accommodated on Bronze Bird Terrace. A couch of eight feet long enclosed with fine hemp curtains should be set up in the hall on the terrace. Every day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, dried meat and other kinds of food should be offered to
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issued the "Edict to Destroy Gardens and Terraces of the State of Qi" (毀撤齊國園臺詔) on 2 March 577 in which he denounced the wasteful extravagance of the Qi, proclaimed a return to restraint and frugality, and ordered the destruction of Ye's gardens and the Three Terraces. Emperor Wu died the next year,
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As Cao Cao laid dying in 220, he dictated his will to his sons. After reflecting on his own life and addressing the division of his belongings, he stipulated the Bronze Bird Terrace to be the place where his concubines were to be accommodated, where rituals were to be held for his spirit, and where
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among the poets of the Jian'an period, all wrote about the Bronze Bird Terrace cemented its place in the poetic imagination of the Jian'an period (196-220), and the laudatory tone that Cao Pi and Cao Zhi took here contributed to the terrace being seen as a symbol of Cao Cao's success, ambitions, or
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named Dongxiao Monastery (洞霄觀) was built on the Metal Tiger's. The Ice Well Terrace was noted to have been washed by the Zhang River, causing one corner to erode away. Today, after centuries of flooding by the Zhang River, only the Metal Tiger Terrace remained visible, while the Bronze Bird Terrace
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in 370, and Ye only became capital again under Eastern Wei and then the Northern Qi. In 558, the old Three Terraces were renovated under the Northern Qi, which had mobilized 300,000 three hundred thousand workmen to make them "higher and grander" than ever before. The terraces were renamed again at
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in 204 and made the city his chief residence. As the years of war had destroyed the inner city, Cao Cao set about rebuilding the city in the mold of an imperial capital. He initiated a number of works in Ye, digging canals in and around the city to improve irrigation and drainage, and building the
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Regardless of their authenticity or utility (or lack thereof), Bronze Bird Inkstones were traded as gifts among the literati. The receiving party would write poems expressing their gratitude and essays appraising the artifact, sometimes inscribing the words onto the inkstone itself. This led to a
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into war against Cao Cao by stating that Cao Cao is specifically campaigning throughout China in search of beautiful women to fill his Bronze Bird Terrace, and if Zhou Yu fails to act, his own wife—the younger of the Qiao sisters—would be made captive there. Also of note is that the Bronze Bird
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Other than the reference to the Qiao sisters, the writer of the novel resists fully committing to the vernacular trope of Bronze Bird Terrace being Cao Cao's harem. In chapter 56 on the completion of the Bronze Bird Terrace, Cao Cao holds a grand feast there, but the descriptions of Cao Cao's
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since it references auspicious symbols from an old song: "To the west of Chang'an, a pair of circular watchtowers, / On top of them perches a pair of Bronze Birds. / They sing once, and five grains grow; / They sing again, and five grains ripen". The Metal Tiger Terrace was named after the
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interprets as an auspicious portent harking back to the ancient sage kings. Pleased by the sign, Cao Cao charges Cao Zhi with the construction of the Bronze Bird Terrace in Ye, flanked by two shorter ones called Jade Dragon and Gold Phoenix. In chapter 44, Cao Zhi's poem
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that locals began to make fake Bronze Bird Terrace tiles from a mold and bury them into the ground before making them into inkstones to sell for profit. One source claims that tiles from the Bronze Bird Terrace were made with clay filtered by fine linen then mixed with
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my spirit. On the first day and fifteenth day every month, the entertainers should give a musical performance in front of the curtains. You should all go up Bronze Bird Terrace from time to time and gaze at my tomb on the western mound.
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In modern times, the Bronze Bird Terrace remains a staple in Three Kingdoms media associated with Cao Cao from historical dramas to video games. Notably, the Bronze Bird Terrace lends its name and setting to the 2012 Chinese film
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from Cao Cao's invading fleet by a fire attack in the Battle of Red Cliffs. Du Mu's poem provides a counterfactual: if the winds were not favourable to Zhou Yu, Cao Cao's fleet would not have burned and Zhou Yu's forces would be
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blends historical, literary, and popular traditions into a single narrative. In chapter 34 of the novel, a glowing bronze bird was dug out of the ground after Cao Cao's conquest of north China, which Cao Cao's advisor
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Also, the Bronze Bird Terrace and its associated garden were used as places of merrymaking, such that they became the subject of a subset of Jian'an poetry known as "feast poems" (公燕詩), where poets such as Cao Zhi and
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could only be identified through archaeology. The extant Metal Tiger Terrace (now known as the Metal Phoenix), mistakenly identified by the locals as the more famous Bronze Bird Terrace, is only 12 meters tall.
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to rise against him in Ye. After Yuchi Jiong was defeated in 580, Yang Jian evacuated the population of Ye and razed the city to the ground. Yang Jian would declare himself emperor of the
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is woven into the narrative where Zhuge Liang goads Zhou Yu—an altered version of the poem with added verses is recited (under line 10 above), "proving" Cao Cao's lecherous intentions:
338: 153:(~18 meters). Modern observers measure the bases of the Bronze Bird Terrace and the Metal Tiger Terrace at 122 m north to south and 70 m east to west. Atop the terraces were 90:, where the terrace is a popular topic. Although its destruction in 577 and natural disasters left only ruins of the Bronze Bird Terrace, the terrace lives on in the Chinese 680: 1534: 272:
of the Former Yan in 352. Murong Jun moved his capital to Ye in 357, upon which he ordered the repair of its palaces and the Bronze Bird Terrace. Former Yan fell to
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poet Ai Xingfu (艾性夫) puts it: "I request you sir, spit on it, throw it out, and never use it again. If the Bronze Bird still stood, I would destroy it."
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known as the "Bronze Bird Performers" (銅雀妓), and the terrace itself was transformed from a symbol of splendour and glory to one of loss and longing.
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merrymaking there were confined to more elegant displays of poetry recitals and martial feats, not the carnal pleasures of the popular tradition.
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this time, with Bronze Bird being renamed as Golden Phoenix (金鳳), Metal Tiger as Sagely Response (聖應), and Ice Well as Magnificent Light (崇光).
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By the Yuan dynasty, a popular tradition took hold viewing Cao Cao as a lustful tyrant and his Bronze Bird Terrace a pleasure palace. The
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through which the poet could recall the lost city of Ye and its lord Cao Cao. As the sympathies of the time laid with Cao Wei's enemy
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in 577, Northern Qi quickly disintegrated within a month, with large scale defections of court and military personnel. The incoming
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periods. A Buddhist temple named Yongning Temple (永寧寺) was erected on the foundations of the Bronze Bird Terrace, while a
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through its connection with Cao Cao and retains its place in Chinese literature and modern media pertaining to the
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in 1988. The site of the Three Terraces, now administratively in Santai village (三台村; "Three Terrace Village") of
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Despite the destruction of Ye and the terrace buildings, the foundations of the Three Terraces survived into the
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The poetic tradition of the Bronze Bird Terrace began soon after its completion, when Cao Cao brought his sons
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Cao Cao holds a feast on the Bronze Bird Terrace, in chapter 56 of the illustrated 1591 edition of the
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Shi Hu died in 349, after which his sons killed one another for the throne only to be exterminated by
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of this scene, where women regularly perform and pine for their dead lord, became a trope of
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high, which translates to about 23 meters, while the other two terraces were shorter at 8
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forced the abdication of the last emperor of Eastern Han, becoming the first emperor of
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tall. The Metal Tiger Terrace was renamed to Metal Phoenix Terrace (金鳳臺) to avoid a
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collection, carved with the words "Jian'an Year 15" (210 AD), catalogued in the
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sisters in the popular tradition aroused people's imagination for generations.
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Remembrances : the experience of the past in classical Chinese literature
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Let me follow in the footsteps of the enlightened ruler that I may rejoice,
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of the Later Zhao became emperor in 334 through a coup against his cousin
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Cao Cao's will survived only through its inclusion in the preface of the
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in 263, who were later forced out of northern China by a series of non-
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Terrace was described to be in Chang'an instead of Ye in this story.
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with the Bronze Bird Terrace by textually placing in the terrace the
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The ruins of Ye, of which the Three Terraces is a part, were made a
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made a bid for the throne, which prompted the Zhou loyalist general
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died less than a year on the throne. Emperor Xuan's father-in-law
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He has set up the beautiful building in the midst of the heavens,
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That the humane influence may be poured out over all the world,
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Whence abundance of fruits could be looked for in his gardens.
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states. Ye became the capital of several of these states: the
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The name "Bronze Bird Terrace" evokes the Western Han capital
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on the topic of Bronze Bird Inkstones, treating the tiles as
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That the perfection of reverence may be offered to the Ruler.
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He will rejoice in the multitude of scholars that assemble,
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And ascend the storied terrace that I may gladden my heart,
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that Cao Cao received from the Han emperor as part of the
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Imperial warlord : a biography of Cao Cao 155-220 AD
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Look down; there is the grand beauty of an imperial city,
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Look up; and there is the gorgeous harmony of springtime,
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The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms
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He has established the exalted gates high as the hills,
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On the banks of the rolling River Zhang he planned it,
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to the terrace in 212 and all three wrote rhapsodies (
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Whence the eye can range over the cities of the west.
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in 581 and go on to reunify China in 589, ending the
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That he might rejoice with them morning and evening.
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Could compare with that of the sacred understanding.
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The house desires success in its double undertaking,
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of more than a hundred rooms each: According to the
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That I may gaze upon the plans of the virtuous one.
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Architectural icon of China's Three Kingdoms period
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Index

The Assassins (film)

Romance of the Three Kingdoms
traditional Chinese
simplified Chinese
pinyin
Ye
Cao Cao
late Eastern Han dynasty
metonymous
Classical Chinese poetry
cultural memory
Three Kingdoms
Ye
Zhang River
Wei Commandery
Han dynasty
Yuan Shao
Cao Cao
Battle of Ye
zhang
pavilions
Wen Xuan
raised walkways
Chang'an
tiger tally
Nine Bestowments
Cao Pi
Cao Wei
Luoyang

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