Zài Cáo Zhí de shī lǐ, ránshāo de dòuqí bǐyù pòhài dìdi de gēge.
In Cao Zhi’s poem, the burning beanstalks stand for an elder brother persecuting his younger brother.
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Cao Zhi’s 七步诗 is said to have been composed in seven paces, on the order of his brother 曹丕: 煮豆燃豆萁，豆在釜中泣 ‘beans boil over burning beanstalks, and in the pot the beans weep’. It ends 本是同根生，相煎何太急 ‘we grew from the same root, why such haste to cook me?’
