Cao Zhi (192-232) was one of the greates poets in ancient China, especially in the development of poems with five characters to a line. This book chooses 61 poems of his overall 80 ones, mainly focusing on those with five characters to a line. The translation tries to be exact, concise, fluent, readable, and suitable for both refined and popular tastes, for experts or students on Chinese poems as well as common readers.