Su Xun, as one of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties, looks ordinary. Is that really the case?

No, in the first year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1032), Su Xun's mother Shi died and was buried in the Su's ancestral grave in Andaoli, Xiuwen Township, meishan county. Su Xun said in Ouyang Neihan's book for the first time: "Teenagers don't learn, and they don't know how to study until they are twenty-five, so they swim from gentlemen." It's late now, and at first, his attitude was not very serious. With his cleverness, his generation is not necessarily better than himself, thinking that reading is not difficult. However, for the first time, he was unfortunately the last one.

This failure made him reflect on himself, and then he took out hundreds of old books and read them carefully. He couldn't help sighing: "What I learned today is what I haven't learned yet!" In a rage, I burned these old manuscripts, and decided to take out The Analects of Confucius, Mencius and Han Yuwen and reread them from the beginning, and continue to study the books that a hundred schools of thought contend and spread them all over the world. Sitting in the study every day, people study hard for six or seven years and swear not to write any articles, which is considered mature. At this time, Su Xun was 27 years old. Therefore, Ouyang Xiu set up an epitaph, and Zhang Li set up an epitaph. Both historical biographies say, "At the age of 27, I began to study angrily."

In the second year of Baoyuan in the Northern Song Dynasty (1039), Su Xun studied hard at home, studying the gains and losses of chaos in ancient and modern times. Mrs. Cheng gave birth to her youngest son, Su Zhe. Su Xun went to Langzhou (now Langzhong County, Sichuan Province) to visit his brother Su Xun, who was an official there. He was very moved to see that his brother had made good achievements in local governance. Soon he left the Wuxia of Kuizhou, went downstream to Jingzhou (now Xiangyang County, Hubei Province), traveled around, made learned teachers and friends, and gained a lot of knowledge and life experience. In the third year of Baoyuan in the Northern Song Dynasty (1040), Su Xun studied hard for five or six years, and his second brother Su Xun was transferred from Kaifeng to Langzhou as a general.

In the early years of Jiayou in the Northern Song Dynasty (1056), Su Xun took his second son to Beijing to catch the exam and met Ouyang Xiu, a bachelor of Hanlin. Ouyang Xiu appreciated his Lun Heng, Politics and Tactics, and thought it could be compared with Liu Xiang and Jia Yi, so he recommended Su Xun to the court. Officials and scholars scrambled to tell the story of Su Xun, and Su Xun's literary title was greatly improved. During my stay in Beijing, I met Master Bao Cong. "When I was in the capital, Pengzhou monk Bao Cong came for advice and was very diligent. When I arrived in Shu, I heard that he had come back from Beijing. At first, he thought he was a disciple. He lived in Jue Yuan Hospital for a long time. "