The two brothers are suing each other over the inheritance, just like Cao Zhi's 'they boil the beans over burning beanstalks'.
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The first line of the 七步诗, which 曹植 is said to have composed within seven paces when his brother, the emperor 曹丕, threatened his life: 煮豆燃豆萁，豆在釜中泣 'they boil the beans over burning beanstalks, and in the pot the beans weep'. Beans and stalks grow from one plant, as the two brothers came from one father.
history
This four-line version is the one told in the novel 三国演义. The earliest telling, in the 世说新语, has six lines and opens 煮豆持作羹 'they boil beans to make a broth'. The image also gave the idiom 煮豆燃萁, strife between brothers.
