/Poetry: Two or three branches of peach blossoms outside the bamboo
Three or two branches of peach blossoms outside the bamboo, a prophet of the warmth of the spring river?
The ground is full of wormwood and short reed buds, which is when the puffer fish is about to come.
—— "Huichong Chunjiang Xiaojing"
I remember when I was a child, there was an origami fan at home. The picture on the fan was a few green bamboos covering three or two branches of peach blossoms. The green bamboos Under the roots are mugwort sprouts with sharp reed buds, and a pair of wild ducks are swimming in the spring water of a river with their webs stretched out. It was a watercolor painting, and a few light lines made the picture lifelike. There is also a poem in the upper left corner of the painting, which is Su Shi's "Hui Chong Chun Jiang Xiao Jing".
That was the first time I came into contact with Su Shi’s poems. Although I didn’t recognize all the words in the poem at that time, the fresh and beautiful picture deeply attracted me. Me, so much so that I can’t wait to memorize that poem. "Hui Chong Chun Jiang Xiao Jing" is a famous painting poem. When I was young, I did not understand the beauty of this poem. When I grew up, I realized how wonderful and expressive the sentence "The duck prophet is when the water in the spring river is warm", because the painter could not draw the temperature of the water, but the whole picture became more beautiful because of this poem. Full of interest.
What is even more wonderful is that Su Shi used his humorous imagination to see the artistic conception outside the painting. He used the "puffer fish's desire" that is not in the painting to add to the atmosphere of early spring and deepen the artistic conception in the painting. If Hui Chong's paintings are "poetry within paintings", then Su Shi's poem is "poetry within paintings".
I think that when reading this poem, many people will smile unconsciously like me. Yes, who would refuse the beauty of spring? While we were reading the poem, our hearts were already filled with the beauty of spring.
Hui Chong was a good friend of Su Shi and was good at painting small scenes such as geese, wild geese, herons, and Hanting Yuanzhu. It's a pity that the painting is no longer passed down. It was Su Shi who resurrected Hui Chong with this poem on painting, and also resurrected Hui Chong's paintings. "Knowing People and Discussing Poems" was written by Su Shi when he was demoted to Huangzhou due to the "Wutai Poetry Case" and then returned to Dengzhou. A year ago, Su Shi was still farming in Huangzhou, the place of exile, and was at a low point in his life. He originally thought that he was lucky to survive the "Wutai Poetry Case", so how could he dare to hope for a comeback? This turn of fortune rekindled Su Shi's hope. Therefore, Hui Chong's ordinary painting was full of vitality in Su Shi's eyes.
Yes, spring is here, everything is renewed, the political situation of the country is changing rapidly, and the Yuan Dynasty is imminent. With the change of government, isn’t this a great opportunity to realize one’s political ambitions? The whole poem is easy to understand, as clear as words, and contains the joy that the poet "can only understand" when his destiny changes. Even illiterate people can feel the joy and joy in this poem.
The only person who can achieve "poetry within painting and painting within poetry" is Su Shi besides Wang Wei. Wang Weineng was good at poetry and painting, and Su Shi was an all-rounder in literature and art. In addition to being famous for his poetry, his calligraphy and painting attainments are also at their peak. We often say that such a person is a genius that is rare to see in a thousand years. However, the creation of geniuses also has acquired factors.
Su Shi had a strict father and a loving mother, so he received a good family education since he was a child. All great and immortal figures have a great mother, and Su Shi is no exception.
Su Shi’s mother, Mrs. Cheng, came from a scholarly family, so Su Shi’s mother was knowledgeable about books and etiquette, and could give him a good enlightenment education. "History of the Song Dynasty: Biography of Su Shi" records such an incident: When Su Shi was ten years old, his mother taught her to read "Book of the Later Han Dynasty: Biography of Fan Pang". Fan Pang was a famous politician during the Eastern Han Dynasty. He was framed for his unselfishness in investigating corrupt officials. He was sentenced to death. Before his execution, Fan Pang said goodbye to his mother. He said: "I'm sorry for you. I will follow my father to Jiuquan. From now on, I can only rely on my brother to fulfill my filial piety for you. The living and the dead each have their own place. I just ask you to let go of the things that are difficult to part with." Family love, don't be sad." Fan Pang's mother understood the righteousness and said to him: "You can be as famous as a loyal minister today, what regrets do you have in death? Since you have a good reputation and want to be rich and long, how can I support it? You sacrifice your life for ideals and justice.
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Su Shi was filled with emotion after reading this story. He stood up excitedly and asked his mother: "If I want to be a person like Fan Pang, do you agree? Su Shi's mother calmly replied: "If you can be Fan Pang, can't I be Fan Pang's mother?" ”
Su Shi was upright and upright throughout his life, with a clear distinction between love and hate. Even if he encountered all difficulties, he would never turn back. I think this has a lot to do with his mother’s education. It is precisely because Su Shi has a deep Ming Dayi's mother gave him a subtle influence and formed his admirable personality.
Su Shi was repeatedly ostracized by the establishment because of his integrity. Even when he was demoted to poverty, he still survived. The formation of his personality should be related to his mother's kindness and kindness. The courtyard of Su Shi's house is full of various plants, which attracts many birds to nest in. The Su Shi brothers and their friends often gathered around the bird's nest to tease the little ones. Birds, feed them. Su Shi's poem "Strange Magpie" contains a description of this childhood scene:
In the past, I was a gentleman, and my family was benevolent and filial.
There were five in my family. In the garden, there are phoenixes and tung flowers.
It’s time for the crows and magpies to reach their nests.
Remember me and the children, feeding and watching the flock.
A person who has great love for birds and animals must be a kind person. Only a kind-hearted person will show generosity, kindness and broadness in his works. It is precisely because of Su Shi's works. Such beautiful qualities will win people's love and last for thousands of years.
It is not enough for an outstanding literati to have a rich spiritual world; he must also have good literary qualities. Only in this way can his inner world be expressed and his thoughts and emotions last forever. His loving mother gave Su Shi a rich spiritual world, while his strict father cultivated Su Shi's solid cultural foundation.
In his later years, he had a dream in which he dreamed of his father supervising his studies when he was a child. He wrote in the poem "Night Dream":
In the night dream, he was playing like a child, and his father and teacher were scolding him and running away. Book.
It is the end of Spring and Autumn, and it is the beginning of Huanzhuang.
I feel uncomfortable and feel like I am fishing.
< p> I have a lot of connections in my life, and I have many habits.I have abandoned the book and served the emperor for forty years, and I have ignored Liu Shu's entanglement.
I regard you and Qiu as my own. Who is wise, Yi Wei is still an immortal.
I should compile it with rhino leather.
Su Shi wrote in his poem that he failed to complete his study tasks because of his playfulness when he was a child. . He was worried about his father checking his homework, and felt like a fish with a fishhook in his mouth.
In his later years, Su Shi was relegated to Hainan Island and lived a life of poverty and hardship. . Under such circumstances, he also dreamed about studying when he was a child, which shows that his father's strict teachings left a deep impression on him.
In addition to his parents' careful teaching, Su Shi was also diligent and good at learning. He once hand-copied one hundred volumes of "Han Shu" three times, with nearly 750,000 words in one copy. How much determination and perseverance this requires! It was because of such in-depth efforts that Su Shi was able to memorize many classics backwards and forwards.
Su Shi was once the emperor's confidential secretary, drafting edicts for the royal family. Jiang Nan, a native of the Ming Dynasty, recorded such a story in his book "Miscellaneous Knowledge of Fengyuetang", which said that Hong Mai was waiting for an imperial edict in the Hanlin Garden. One day, Hong Mai drafted an edict for the emperor. He wrote more than 20 edicts from morning to night, which was very busy. After he finished, he asked the eunuch next to him: "Back then, Su Dongpo and Su Xueshi were said to have fast pens, but could they be so fast?" The eunuch nodded and said, "Su Xueshi was so quick because he was so agile. But when he wrote edicts, he never wrote edicts. You have to look through so many classics." This short story shows that the reason why Su Dongpo was able to use classics easily and at his fingertips was because he had a deep cultural foundation.
In addition to studying diligently, Su Shi was also good at studying. He invented the method of reading from all sides, that is, reading books into themes. In this way, each time you read it, you will read it around a center. Reading it several times is equivalent to reading several different books.
In this way, is there any reason why a book cannot be read or understood thoroughly?
It is precisely with a good family education and being smart and diligent that we have created a generation of geniuses. Doesn’t this give us some inspiration for today’s education?
Therefore, when we praise someone as a genius, we should think that others must have made efforts that ordinary people cannot see. Just like when we read Su Shi's "Hui Chong Chun Jiang Xiao Jing" again today, when we are impressed by his talent, we should think that the reason why Su Shi is so talented is because he has thousands of books hidden in his heart.