Su Shichuan's Random Thoughts on Reading 1 Su Shichuan is a 450,000-word book co-authored by Su Shi's research experts Wang Shuizhao and Cui Ming, which was published by Tianjin People's Publishing House last year. This book is well written, but it is not easy to write. Su Shi's life experience is rich and complicated, with many works and wide coverage, which is one of the difficulties. There is also Lin Yutang's masterpiece Su Dongpo's Biography, which is so beautifully written.
When I read Su Shichuan, I found that the book's evaluation of Su Shi was almost the same as Su Dongpo's biography. Lin summarized it as "an optimist whose nature cannot be changed, a moralist who sympathizes with others, a good friend of ordinary people, an essayist" and so on. Su Shichuan is generally based on this evaluation. The subtitle "The Transcendence of the Wise in Suffering" shows that the author tries to understand and describe Su Shi from his life experience. So this book has its own characteristics that cannot be ignored.
First, narrative in strict chronological order, emphasizing Su Shi as a writer. This book runs through Su Shi's life's poems. In contrast, Su Dongpo's biography is not like this. We should take care of the understanding and interest of British and American readers and should not quote more poems and articles. It uses more legends and stories and occupies a more important position. Therefore, this Su Shichuan is more conducive for readers to understand Su Shi's life from his novels, poems and literary works. Narratively, the interpretation of novels, poems and literary works is extremely in place. Here, it shows that Mr. Wang Shuizhao's research on Su Shi's novels, poems and literary works is extraordinary and can be used freely in his biography. Su Shi's thoughts and literary thoughts are intertwined with world politics, so it is a kind of "transcendence in suffering" and a kind of "transcendence of the wise". Readers who haven't read Su Ji can really appreciate a lot from the poems, words and articles quoted in the biography, especially the uncommon essays and notes.
Second, Lin Yutang loves Su Dongpo. Lin has created a large number of literary novels, poems and literary works, and to a considerable extent, he has created prose. Of course, Lin has plenty of historical data to prove it. I always feel that his focus lies in Su Dongpo's personality, which is the author's favorite personality. On the other hand, Su Shichuan pays more attention to academics. It is more comprehensive and controversial. Indeed, Su Shi's romantic style is almost natural. However, the environment also made it. No matter from the perspective of novels, poems, literary works, or from the perspective of life, there are not only chic and romance, but also personal pain and people's suffering. The demotion of Wutai Poetry, one of the most absurd literary inquisitions in China, to Huangzhou is a key step in Su Shi's life. In the biographies of Lin and Wang, they both focus on writing. Yu's important article Su Dongpo's Breakthrough is also written in this passage. Su Shi's life and his novels, poems and literary works all reached a peak here. For this life, "Su Shichuan" is undoubtedly more abundant. It shows the pain and suffering more fully, so that it is thrilling. Suffering is enough and "transcendence" is powerful. Lin exaggerated Su Dongpo's happiness and happiness in suffering, and even described his humiliation and pain in Wutai poetry case as "interesting". Su Shichuan made his life in Huangzhou more credible. For example, in many letters at that time, Su Shi told his friends many times that "after reading it, it will be a fire" and "it is no small matter to spread rumors about the capital". He was very scared. In Huangzhou, he saw the folk sufferings he had never seen before in his life, and he also tasted the bitter days. One thing must be mentioned here. When Su Shi was in Huangzhou, he wrote many letters, one of which was addressed to Zhang, a good friend and political enemy, expressing his regret for the past. Lin's legend is "a very apt answer, and regrets are beyond words", which is "more apt" and can be read to the emperor. The implication is to deal with it, but to deal with it skillfully. On the other hand, Wang Zhu believes that "seeking help may have personal motives". I think it's more real. Wang Zhu is totally opposed to this new law. This seems logical. The poems written by Wang Zhu are more complicated and more real.
Third, about Wang Anshi's political reform, Lin's denial may be too simplistic. Wang Zhu is more objective. Of course, about Sue and Wang, they are both great writers, Soapy. When it comes to political reform, this book compares the views of Su Shi and Wang, saying: "Su Shi can't compare with a generation of famous Wang Anshi in terms of ideological height and vision." This is also objective. This book has written a lot about Wang Anshi, and it was written from the interaction between Wang Anshi and Su Shi. The first article was after Wang Anshi's strike. Su Shi visited Wang in Jinling, and his political enemies became literary friends. He put aside his old feelings and wrote a happy paper. That long passage is about the generosity and elegance of the literati in the Northern Song Dynasty, and even about the cuteness of two great writers.
Su Shichuan's thoughts on reading 2 Close the thick biography of Su Dongpo, and I am filled with emotion. All kinds of miscellaneous thoughts haunt me like dust stirred by pages, and I open it.
Start thinking about life and fate.
The world is changing rapidly, and people are just a drop in the ocean. Since they are small, there is no need to compete, work hard, and strive for illusory floating fame. At the same time, it is not easy to live in the world once. Don't let this precious life become a treacherous villain and be reviled. Being true to yourself is the most important thing. As the saying goes, "Every plant has its own heart, so why beauty?" What about people?
Throughout Su Dongpo's life, it is a life of self-persistence. Lin Yutang called her "the urchin of nature", which I think is very appropriate. Children are the most sincere and willful, and "stubbornness" means stubbornness. It is this willfulness and stubbornness that makes him have a happy and calm heart under any circumstances. His political career was ups and downs in the struggle between the new party and the old party and the change of political power, and he felt sad for him. He seemed to be packed in a wooden box and thrown into the sea, fluctuating with the waves, and the officialdom was like the sea. His character determines that he must be thrown into the waves. It is his integrity, his outspoken remarks, and his ridicule that make political opponents set off waves after waves. I don't think anyone has ever been so widely demoted by a foreign country, and no one has ever lived so peacefully during his demotion, even his political opponents are jealous. I think besides the well-known reasons for the perfect integration of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, there are several reasons that cannot be ignored.
First, it is the support of literature. In the hinterland, writing is his important content. There are poems, words, letters, epitaphs and classic notes. At this time, his writing has no functional purpose, but completely expresses his true feelings, so his achievements are even greater. When literature returns to the original position of writing, it has immortal value.
Second, there are many friends. Su Dongpo has many lifelong friends. Wherever he goes, he also makes friends and visits strangers. He treats his friends wholeheartedly and trusts them, and many of them are cited as confidants. He is like a Clivia, which has a special temperament and attracts friends from all walks of life. As he himself said, "I can accompany the jade emperor in the upper level and the beggar in the lower level." I remember seeing a sentence in junior high school: "People are not stupid, you can't make friends with them." Probably, once crazy people meet them, they can last for a long time. These friends gave Su Dongpo great spiritual comfort and encouragement.
Third, I have a wide range of interests, and I always have this impression in my mind. People with a wide range of interests are always energetic and persistent. There are many legendary stories about Su Dongpo, many of which are about his hobbies, such as Dongpo meat, developing prescriptions. I heard that he once had a secret recipe for making ink and almost burned his house. At this time, he is more like an urchin. If you have a wide range of interests, you will have endless things to do. Even if you are fired and shelved, life can be very busy.
In modern society, people's spiritual life is becoming more and more desertified, and people are complaining and distressed. Maybe at that time, we didn't have free and unlimited scenery to visit and farewell, and there were no wonderful words, but we could have Su Dongpo's mentality, calm and happy-go-lucky, without flattery or pretense.
Su Shichuan felt the nightmare of 3000 years after reading, dreaming back to the Millennium. A thousand years ago, a great man touched history. He is Su Shi.
The Summary of the General Catalogue of Sikuquanshu said: From the late Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties, the poems were mainly beautiful and graceful, from Liu Yong, a poet such as Bai Juyi, to Su Shi, a poet such as Han Yu. In this way, Su Zhi's poetic style, rhyme and literary talent are enough to hold up a piece of sky alone in that beautiful song rhyme. However, under the rule of the dirty, dense and filthy Song Dynasty, Su Shi's artistic conception, thoughts and attitudes could not be extended to a place where he could live, so he drifted around, wandering in Hangzhou, Mizhou and Huangzhou, and finally died in Changzhou.
Su Shi was born in a poor landlord family, and his father was a famous essayist Su Xun. When he was a child, he was deeply influenced by his father's rhyme, disciplined severely and had high expectations. At the age of five, he recited poetry books. By the time he was a teenager, he had learned everything about the present and the past. /kloc-at the age of 0/9, he went to Beijing to take an exam. He wrote an article "On Punishment and Loyalty" in Alice Mildred Cable, which won the reputation of Ouyang Xiu, the examiner, and won a high school award. From then on, he began his gorgeous, legendary and sad life journey.
Su Shi, whose career has just started, is full of enthusiasm for serving the country. He wanted to do everything he said in his life to change the old evil system and supplement the new light law. Small benefits one party, while big benefits the world. Celebrities are immortal for thousands of years But he didn't see the emptiness of reality and the filth of officialdom. It really occurred to him that day that maybe he changed his mind. At that time, the Song Dynasty was short of talents, weak soldiers, many officials, uneven taxes and empty establishment. How to let him relax his wisdom and courage and let go of his enthusiasm? In a foreign land, I am immersed in the loneliness of a lonely official alone and can't worry. It's just a common form of the imperial court. He is admired and revered. Excitement, gratitude, surprise. After years of hard work, I buried many sleepless nights and got ready in time.
However, after facing it, he felt even worse. At this time, reformer Wang Anshi was vigorously carrying out political reforms. Although Su Shi advocated political reform, he opposed Wang Anshi's great change, and the political reform was easy to go beyond his own vision. He wrote many times to oppose it, so he asked to be transferred from the capital. Secondly, the filth of officialdom appeared more clearly in front of his eyes. His childish heart couldn't tolerate those nasty things, and he wrote books and satirized them again and again, which eventually led to the crowd crowding out and being transferred from Beijing. He seems to understand that the height of the temple is not his own.
The stage, mountains and rivers are all your own accommodation. From then on, he sent his feelings to mountains and rivers, and he wrote poems. A writer's political failure often makes him immortal in literature. The West Lake in Hangzhou, Shui Ying in Yingzhou and Chibi in Huangzhou have all been handed down for a long time under Dongpo's wonderful pen. "To compare the West Lake with the West Lake, it is always appropriate to go into battle lightly." Su Shi was deeply moved by the beauty of the West Lake: the vast water waves and ripples swayed slightly, the reflection of moonlight made the lake glow with faint white light, and the long darkness made the West Lake wider. Xu Xian's persistence and the implication of the white snake touched countless people and Su Shi. He thinks he has such a romantic love. He thinks that he is called a fish pond, a beautiful lake, a beautiful woman and a gifted scholar, who has been wandering for a long time and doesn't know the day of heaven and earth. His wife Wang Fu became his pride and comfort, and he felt that such a day was worth remembering.
There is also the Yangtze River in Wuhan: "Jianghan comes from the west, the building is big and the grapes are dark blue, and it also brings its own snow waves and Jinjiang spring scenery." Another example is Shui Ying in Yingzhou: "Clear shadows flow eastward, sadness comes to send Zheng Hong, chaos, green hills and white waves, and thousands of folds." Su Shi's love and pity for water is self-evident, and Dongpo's resentment against Poe is even more faithful. When Su Shi moved to Hangzhou, his family had Dongpo, so he was called Dongpo, and he and Perilla Changshu called themselves Dongpo lay people. He once wrote a poem: Rain.
The moonlight on Dongpo is clear, and pedestrians are everywhere. Don't be too sure about the slope, but love the sound of your stick. I want to come to Dongpo, which is set in the deep mountains and forests and inaccessible. At this time, he may think of his uncontested wife, He Linbu.
The recruitment of the imperial court excited him again, and he ran all the way to the imperial court. At this time, Wang Anshi was dead, and Sima Guang wanted to abolish the new law. Su Shi thought that some new laws were effective and could not be changed, so he was excluded by the old party and was not allowed to go to the DPRK. Naively, he knew that there could be no neutrals in class struggle.
Su Shi was demoted to Mizhou. As soon as he fell asleep that day, his wife Wang Fu asked him to talk about the suffering of lovesickness. Now think about the ten years of acacia, ten years of life and death, how to get it. Under the moon, the night stars are sparse, and on the low Songshan Mountain, I look at the night sky alone and feel sad. The next day, Su Shi was yellow on the left and pale on the right, dressed in brocade. And there are thousands of waters in Qian Shan, and the whole city people follow the satrap, which is spectacular. Su Shi was so heroic that he shot tigers like Sun Quan and Sirius with a bow. But I waited too long to meet the quitters.
Finally, the one who came was in chains. In the Wutai poetry case, a state villain took it out of context and put him in a deep prison, which almost killed him. He's really scared. He is a poet who can praise the brilliance of the bright moon, the cleanliness of the clear water and express his sincere anger.
However. However, when he entered filth, he became very clumsy, unable to mobilize the minimum words and complete simple logic. Just as the sun was setting, I chanted: I was in Huanggang for four or five years. I was alone in the waves and went back to ask questions. I was hungry and cold.
Su Shi's spirit of joining the WTO, knowing that it is impossible, has been shattered in reality. But he also has a naturalized attitude, an anti-naive health-keeping attitude and a Zen thought that sees through the worries. So when he came to Chibi, he finally realized, and Su Shi completed his struggle and detachment in bitterness. The river waves beat on the shore, and the hero died in the East. Gong Jin Zhuang Huai fierce, if the command. Little Joe is heroic in beauty, but he is just empty and affectionate. Only the blue wind on the river and the bright moon in the mountains are what my son and I are doing.
Su Shi has been tossing and turning all his life, with longing and pride, loneliness and depression. If you ask what life is like everywhere? It's like Hong Fei stepping on snow mud.
Su Shichuan's Learning Experience This winter vacation, I was ordered by my teacher to buy a thick biography of Su Dongpo by Lin Yutang. Originally, I wanted to finish it hastily, but I was deeply shocked by Su Dongpo's troubled life. I pay infinite respect to this greatest poet in China history.
First of all, Teacher Lin introduced Dongpo's family background to us. His mother Shicheng should have a great influence on him. After reading Biography of Fan Pang as a child, Dongpo looked up at his mother and asked, "Mom, if I grow up, would you like to be like Fan Pang?" Mother replied, "If you can be Fan Pang, can't I be Fan Pang's mother?" . His mother gave him a good moral influence since he was a child, which is also a major factor in his future growth.
Then he introduced his learning experience. He has shown extraordinary talent since he was a child, but this does not hinder his efforts. When studying, Su Dongpo memorized all the classics, poems and classic ancient books, which is of great benefit to Su Dongpo in the future, because whenever he remonstrates with the emperor or drafts the imperial edict for the emperor, or quotes historical examples, he will never be at a loss. Su Dongpo's learning experience also tells us that genius also needs diligence and hard work to achieve greater success.
In The Biography of Su Dongpo, not only Su Dongpo is introduced, but also two other people who are most closely related to him, his father Su Xun and his younger brother Su Zhe. Father Su Xun was taciturn, cautious, independent and eccentric. Naturally, he is not an easy-going person. Another is my brother Su Zhe, whose personality is different from my brother's. His personality is quiet, cold, steady and practical, so he is better than his brother in officialdom.
More meaningful. After writing Su San, I want to talk about Su Shi's wife. His first wife seems to be far superior to her husband in practical affairs and clear interests, so Su Dongpo listens to her in everything. She is a wife, more like a smart housekeeper and a wise partner. It's a pity that she died young, which made Su Dongpo very sad. She once wrote a special word in memory of her, called farewell to He Zhu. This paper mainly introduces the ups and downs of Dongpo's officialdom. Su Dongpo, who opposed Wang Anshi's radical reform measures, disagreed with Sima Guang's abolition of the new law. On the contrary, he advocated cautious behavior. Everything is based on whether it is beneficial to the actual effect of the national economy and people's livelihood, and he did not go to Afu to cater to it. He was neither caught by the "new law" nor by the "old system", so he was rejected by both the old and new parties and his career was very bumpy. Su Dongpo has always been involved in the political whirlpool, but his scenery is infinite, and he is above the political activities of making a fool of himself. He doesn't want to be a poet. He writes and gives poems at any time and anywhere, criticizing and expressing his feelings. He doesn't care about the consequences and benefits. Although there are many difficulties in Su Shi's life, from his poems, articles and life experiences, we can find that his attitude towards life is optimistic and positive. Humor, when he talked with Wang Anshi about Wang Zhi's so-called "etymology", he quoted the "singing pigeon in mulberry, his son seven Xi" in the Book of Songs, and his parents * * * nine birds, explaining to him why "pigeon" is the combination of "nine" and "bird" in Wang Anshi's way, which is really ironic; Later, I even joked with Wang Anshi. Wave? If so? Water? What? Skin? And then what? Is it slippery? Is it? Water? What? Bones? Yes "Even though he was demoted to Hainan, which lacked medical care and medicine, he still said in his reply," If there is no medicine, more Han people will die at the hands of doctors in Beijing. "Tell friends not to worry.
He loves life, and there are many anecdotes about food alone. He studied cooking methods, made his own wine, and even passed it on to later generations, such as Dongpo pork and Dongpo pot. In his poems, he also mentioned food many times-"No bamboo makes people vulgar, no meat makes people thin, not vulgar but not thin, and pork stewed bamboo shoots", "The beauty of fish is known in the north and south of the Yangtze River, and the fragrance of bamboo shoots is felt in the mountains", "Artemisia sphaerocephala has short reed buds all over the ground, which is the time when puffer fish want to go up" and "300 lychees a day, and you will not hesitate when you grow up to be a Lingnan person"
Sentimental, in the word "Jiangchengzi", he expressed his affection for his dead wife, which is quite different from his style of "One River does not return" and is sad. After Chao Yun died early because of the plague, he expressed his deep love and pain in Epitaph of Chao Yun and Mourning Chao Yun. Later, in the word "Xijiang Moon Plum Blossom", plum blossom symbolizes facing the clouds, just like writing flowers and people.
Although he was arrested and tried several times for his poems, he still kept his sharp style. When Liu Shu, a good friend, was dismissed from office and left Beijing, he wrote a poem satirizing "Wu Can's group of people who can't tell the difference between men and women", and then wrote "I still carry Mai Qingqing" to express his disdain for the glory of officialdom. Once after I got out of prison, I wrote two poems, and then I dropped my pen and smiled, "I'm hopeless!" " "
Su Dongpo's unusually bumpy life is also an open-minded and optimistic life. His detachment in adversity has always maintained that "success is happy and failure is gratifying", which is as sentimental as his poems and articles! Throughout the ages! As Mr. Lin Yutang said, Su Dongpo's "life is like a breeze" and "is the natural expression of his nature". Although his body will die, his spirit will become stars in the sky and rivers on the earth in the next life. Let us remember Dongpo lay man, a child prodigy!