Su Shi was called a generation of wizards by later generations. There are three strange things about him: he is eager to learn, and the most important thing is that he is unlucky and easy to hit a wall.
Su Shi, who loves to hit a wall, has always been sad about his situation, but he is helpless. Feelings for mountains and rivers, edifying temperament, tossing and turning, he still does not change his nature. In officialdom, he crossed the river by feeling the stones, but he had to show his ambition because of his own difficulties; He has a pursuit of writing and poetry, and he is a family of his own.
In ancient times, influenced by Confucianism, it was even more difficult to get rid of this deep-rooted thought. However, this bold scholar did it. Su Shi's writing style is self-contained, which makes you sigh but not pessimistic. His words are like a person, full of vitality in hardships, so that we can learn to reflect when reading.
When you read Su Shi's articles, you can read many works. Every book is Su Shi, but every book is different from Su Shi. For example, Zhong Shuhe's Short Story of Reading Buildings contains many articles by Su Shi. Su Shi's essays are all prose of Fu style, such as Fu on the Red Wall, which has many words. However, you have never seen such Su Shi, and the essay with the word 100 is also very interesting and informative.
There is no doubt that "learning to be an excellent official" deserves the praise of personality, material and thought. This book is unique in that it is short and pithy. Whether it is the extensive selection of materials, the concise content, or the wonderful translation and comments, we can see Su Shi's extraordinary and ordinary.
The book Nianlou Xueduan selected 530 classic classical Chinese texts, spanning 53 themes, from Confucius to Zhuangzi, from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, involving many works and works of many poets. It can be said that this book contains many famous works, which are similar in shape to China's View on Ancient Literature, but more concise in meaning.
This book is catchy to read, easy to understand, but irresistible. By collecting the works of many famous writers, we can learn short words, master the essence of Chinese characters and learn to write under the charm of famous classical Chinese.
When it comes to writing, everyone in this book is worth emulating and learning. But among them, Su Shi is the closest person to us, because his life philosophy is pursued by modern people, and he can always bring us spiritual enlightenment when he is free. Look at this book Xue Jian. Let's decipher the magic of Su Shi through the articles in the book.
My words, like a fountain, gush out indiscriminately, care about the earth, and gurgle down. Although it is difficult for thousands of miles a day, it twists and turns with the stones and takes shape with things, but it is unknown. The knower always does what he should do and often stops at what he can't do. That's all! Others, although I can't know. ? -Su Shi's Self-assessment
When it comes to writing, Su Shi, as the first person in Song Dynasty literature, is definitely a lot of bootleg goods, and he himself has written many articles about writing. This Self-evaluation, which is included in Reading Building and Learning Short, can definitely be said to be a masterpiece about writing.
First of all, this article can be included in Zhong Shuhe's book Reading Buildings and Learning Shortcomings. First, it is short enough; The second is that the content is novel and unique; Third, it can inspire readers and be of great benefit to writing.
In modern society, there are many books and articles about writing, but no matter whose thoughts are compared with those of Su Shi, they are all dwarfed. Su Shi's true love for writing is not influenced by time, place or anything. On the contrary, these experiences have made his writing ability better and better.
It can be said that in Su Shi's writing works, the real masterpiece was written when he was under various pressures and difficulties. Only in this way can his works be full of literary thoughts. This is just like his masterpiece "The Red Wall Fu". This article was praised for his writing skills and artistic conception. This artistic conception is a secret that a person urgently needs to spit out and desperately wants to share with others.
The lofty artistic conception of many articles by Su Shi lies in his drunkenness. He hid the implicature, euphemism and various emotions of the ancients between the lines, and his feelings were not exposed. The puzzles are all in the text. Knowledge is a bosom friend, but ignorance only knows appearances.
Su Shi's writing is mostly casual. As long as he writes, he can find an exit. His inspiration is like a gushing spring, pouring thousands of miles. As he described it, "my writing is like a spring, which gushes out indiscriminately, caring and gurgling, although it is difficult in a day."
As a great writer, Su Shi writes well and studies well. Among the books he has read, he especially likes Tao Yuanming's poems.
Su Shi enjoyed reading Tao poetry and wrote a short article for it. This essay is called "Dongpo Inscription and Postscript, Shu Yuan Ming Xi Nong Goes to My Long Poem", and it is also included in the book "Reading Buildings and Learning Shortcomings". The content is as follows:
Su Shi's reading Tao poetry is true love. He only reads one poem every day, just to fully appreciate the true meaning of Tao poetry, understand its way and understand its meaning. And he has a feeling that he can't put it down, and he always doesn't want to eat it quickly. He is afraid that after reading it, he can't blame himself.
Good books are worth reading again and again, and you can read different feelings every time you read them. This is the essence of reading. The way to read is to specialize, not to be miscellaneous. Reading all the way, miscellaneous but not refined, reading without thinking, learning without using, using without using its methods, are all taboos of reading.
Su Shi was able to laugh at the literary world of the Northern Song Dynasty and was killed many times, but he was able to get away with it, which was related to his full reading of poetry. He does not hesitate to insist on people and is hungry for his favorite books. This attitude of keeping fresh can be said that this cover is a confession of bookish and obscene, which is not enough for uncivilized people.
Su Shi's reading method not only has his own views on reading Tao poetry, but also answers his niece's question of "learning" in Answering a Book. Su Shi said in his letter: "A teenager is a scholar, and all books count. Books are like the sea, and department stores have everything. You can't have both, but each has his place. So I hope that scholars will make one intention at a time. "
In this passage, Su Shi made clear the specificity and purpose of reading. He advocates reading slowly rather than quickly. He thinks that reading too fast will ignore the details and is not conducive to thinking. Therefore, in the method of reading, he advocates repeated reading and reading with goals and problems.
A person's energy is limited, there are too many good books, and reading is more important than chores. Su Shi's reading method, from directional specificity to repeated retrieval, is unique. Modern people read less and are not good at thinking. They always want to read hundreds of books in one leaf. However, reading together is an absorption process, which is not enough. Therefore, you might as well learn from Su Shi and never tire of reading old books.
Su Shi has always been a person who can live in people's hearts. He has been to many places in his life, but he has never been defeated by fate. He can go boating in Chibi alone, or he can solve it himself, release his mind and extradite himself.
Su Shi, an optimist, always makes himself look idle when he treats life. He can be an idle person under the moon, reclaiming a piece of land for farming, commonly known as Dongpotian; He can also gain insight into food, and Dongpo meat, which is talked about by later generations, is the product of his self-release. Su Shi's poems are mostly uninhibited, but he can also be very delicate, so delicate that he is ashamed of everything in the world.
In the book Xuelou Ji, there is an article about Su Shi's shame, which reads as follows:
This article is the least like Su Shi's writing about mountains and rivers, because it breaks people's understanding of his writing on red walls. He changed his style, no longer focused on landscape painting, but expressed his views on everything.
Su Shi is meticulous and thoughtful. He only wrote his feelings in the article Gao Shulin Pavilion. Everything in the world is wonderful, but people are endless. Su Shi is aware of people's harm to nature. He believes that if people only know beauty and use it, but they are not grateful and ashamed, they still have to transform it. This is a kind of sadness.
How many people are ashamed of Su Shi through the ages? Most people covet enjoyment and ignore the essence of things. Man and nature are symbiotic and should pay for each other and develop together. However, nature can't overcome people's greed and delusion after all, so natural disasters and man-made disasters abound.
People's understanding of Su Shi through the ages is that he is an idle person, and Su Shi's leisure is more in his mind.
Ordinary people are tired. We have been walking all our lives, from body to mind, and we have never stopped. Many times people always complain that they are tired and always feel that they can't stop. However, sometimes when you really can't stop, when you can't stop, your mind is more free than walking constantly.
Su Shi's article "Remembering the Pavilion" included in "Reading the Short Story of Building Studies" shows that Su Shi knows enough is enough. He hopes that people can indulge a little like a decoupled fish, stop and become motivation, and will not waste his writing to make people pay attention to their inner growth and rest. This spiritual insight embodies Su Shi's unique leisure.
Su Shi has written many essays, but one of them is classic, with simple materials. This article is calligraphy and ink. This article is very brief, but Su Shi found another way to explain the idea that the world is beautiful and rare with his own ideological realm, which indirectly satirizes the ignorance of the world.
The article "Calligraphy and Pen and Ink" was also included in the book "Short Board of Reading Buildings" by Zhong Shuhe. In Zhong Shuhe's View of Reading Buildings, he translated the essence of this article with his own understanding. And he not only translated it, but also made this article about Mohism more popular through his self-concept, which fully reflected his profound knowledge and high ideological level.
For people's greed and ignorance, Su Shi expressed his views with this sentence, that is, "tea wants its white, ink wants its black, black is too white to paint, and white is too black to make snow." A person's requirements for himself and what he likes are perfect, but it is difficult to pursue perfection in life. What should he do?
"People have joys and sorrows, the moon has ups and downs, and it is difficult to be complete." There are too many things in this world that can't be forced, and the standard of people's desire for things often goes beyond the essential attributes of things because of the pursuit of perfection and beauty, and even reaches an unreasonable level.
People's ignorance, ignorance and incompetence, and the pursuit of perfection in everything are an idealistic demand. Ideals can exist and pursue higher standards, but the most important thing is to have Zhi Zhi and cherish happiness.
Su Shi believes that we should combine reality and not be too idealistic about doing things and living methods. However, in the face of Where to Go, Su Shi is horribly open-minded. There is an article about Su Shi's outlook on life and death in Xuelou Ji, which makes people admire his demeanor.
Su Shi's life has experienced "eight realms", from youth to old age, from illness to life and death of the elderly, he can always face it with a calm, cheerful and optimistic attitude.
"Ask your occupation, Danzhou, Huizhou, Huangzhou." Su Shi's helplessness is accurately reflected in this poem. Su Shi's life is not content with mediocrity. He is not an ordinary person. He has long been open-minded about life and death. He knows from repeated setbacks and countless hardships that his life will not be smooth sailing, and it is a matter of time before he dies, but he can decide how to die.
In the short story With Jingshan Lin Wei, Su Shi expressed his view of life and death. He believes that people are mortal and no one can change them. Just like everything has rules, no one can break it. In the principle of following nature, as long as it is a natural death, it is not humiliated or wronged, so what is fear of death?
Everyone will die, and it is a good thing to die gracefully. Only Su Like Dongpo died, but he died gloriously and gracefully, and he deserved everyone's wind. Future generations should learn from their shortcomings, know their people and their affairs, and then become a learned person.