This sentence comes from Bao Hui Tangji written by Su Shi, a writer in the Song Dynasty. This article was written in the tenth year of Xining (1077) on July 20th. At that time, Wang Shen, a good friend of Su Shi and a captain of Ma Xu, built Baohuatang on the east side of the private house to collect all his paintings and calligraphy, and asked Su Dongpo to write an article to record the process of building Baohuatang to collect his paintings and calligraphy.
Wang Jinqing is a relative of the country, a lover of calligraphy and painting, and also a person who likes to learn poetry. He usually doesn't eat flour and rice and stays away from lewdness, but he is obsessed with painting and calligraphy. So Su Dongpo wrote this article to warn him, hoping that he could appreciate calligraphy and painting and stay away from the evil of infatuation.
The original text is:
A gentleman can hint at things, but he can't pay attention to them. Hidden in things, although small things are enough for fun, although beautiful things are not enough to cause disease. Pay attention to things, although small things are enough to make you sick, although beautiful things are not enough to make you happy. Laozi said, "Five colors are blind, five tones are deaf, five tastes are refreshing, and wild hunting is crazy." But the sage never abolished these four things, and also talked about meaning. Liu Bei is also very talented, but he is easy to get married. Ji Kang's attainments are also good, but he is good at exercise. Ruan Fu's release is also good, but it's good. Is there a kind of smell, and it will not be greasy for life?
Everything that is enough to please people but not enough to impress them is nothing more than books and paintings. However, if you pay attention to it and don't release it, it will be a disaster. Zhong You vomited blood and sent him to the grave, Song Xiaowu avoided each other, Huan Xuan's trip to Ge, and Wang Ya's compound wall all harmed his country with child's play. So is the disaster of this concern.
At the beginning, when I was young, I tasted both, afraid of losing what I had at home and not giving it. Then I laughed at myself: I am thin and rich but thicker than a book, and I am more important than painting. Isn't it wrong to lose your heart? Naturally, it is no longer good. Although people who are happy to see it recover from time to time, they are taken away by others and no longer cherish it. For example, the smoke passed by, and all birds felt it. Don't you accept it gladly and leave without thinking? Therefore, people who have two things are often happy for me but not disgusting for me.
Although Wang Jun and a captain Jin Qing are in Qi Li, they treat each other with courtesy, study poetry and write books, and often associate with the poor. In times of peace, you can get rid of the paste beam, screen out the sound and emotion, and engage in calligraphy and painting. In the east of your private parts, you can make a treasure painting hall to keep all of it and ask for writing to remember it. I am afraid that my misfortune will be like what I enjoyed when I was young, so I tell you that I will be happy and stay away from my illness.
Diary of Xining on July 20th, 10th year.
Extended data:
Su Shi (1037 65438+10.8-1August 24), also known as He Zhong, Tieguan Taoist, Dongpo layman, Su Dongpo, Su Xian, Han nationality, Meishan, Meizhou (now Sichuan)
In the second year of Jiayou (1057), Su Shi was a scholar. Song Shenzong worked in Fengxiang, Hangzhou, Mizhou, Xuzhou and Huzhou. In the third year of Yuanfeng (1080), he was demoted to be the permanent assistant ambassador of Huangzhou because of Wutai poetry case. After Song Zhezong acceded to the throne, he was known in Hangzhou, Yingzhou, Yangzhou, Dingzhou and other places. In his later years, he was exiled to Huizhou and Danzhou because of the ruling of the New Party.
Song Huizong was granted amnesty and returned to the north, where he died. Song Gaozong posthumously awarded a surname, posthumous title "article".
Su Shi was a literary leader in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, and made great achievements in poetry, ci, writing, calligraphy and painting. His writing is arbitrary; His poems are broad in subject matter, fresh and healthy, good at exaggeration and metaphor, and unique in style. He is also called "Su Huang" with Huang Tingjian. His words are bold and unconstrained, and he is as bold and unconstrained as Xin Qiji, and he is also called "Su Xin"? .
His prose creation is rich and unrestrained, and he is also called "Ou Su" with Ouyang Xiu, and he is one of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties". Su Shi is also good at books and is one of the "Song Sijia"; He is good at literati painting, especially ink bamboo, strange stones and dead wood. There are seven episodes of Dongpo, Dongpo Yi Zhuan, Dongpo Yuefu, Xiaoxiang Bamboo Stone Atlas, and ancient and strange stone atlas handed down from ancient times.
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