Out of date, only Chaoyun can know me;
Playing the same old tune alone, I miss you every time it rains.
This is not an ordinary pavilion couplet, it contains Su Dongpo's sigh about his bumpy life, and this sigh is finally maintained by a confidante, that is, my beloved concubine Wang Chaoyun who was buried in Liu Ruting and ordered Su Dongpo to "think twice at dusk".
To understand Wang Chaoyun's character and appearance, we can first recall Su Dongpo's poem "Rain after Drinking the First Sight on the Lake";
The water is bright and sunny, and the mountains are cloudy and rainy.
If you want to compare the West Lake with the West Lake, it is always appropriate to wear thick and light clothes.
This poem clearly wants to describe the beauty of the West Lake, but in fact it embodies Su Dongpo's feelings of first meeting the clouds. Wang Chaoyun, a native of Qiantang, was assigned to a song and dance class since he was a child because of his poor family. She was born beautiful, intelligent and good at singing and dancing. Although mixed with smoke and dust, she has a fresh and elegant temperament. In Xining, Song Shenzong for four years, Su Dongpo was demoted to Hangzhou for opposing Wang Anshi's new law. One day, he visited the West Lake with some literary friends, and invited a song and dance class from Wang Chaoyun to entertain him at a banquet. In the melodious sound of silk and bamboo, several * * * people are full of make-up, long-sleeved and good at dancing, and Wang Chaoyun, who dances in the center, is particularly eye-catching for its gorgeous dance beauty and superb dance skills. After the dance, * * * sat down to serve wine, and Wang Chaoyun turned to Su Dongpo. At this time, Wang Chaoyun has changed into another costume: washed with heavy makeup, brushed with black eyebrows, slightly parted lips, dressed in plain clothes, beautiful and elegant, delicate and lovely, with a unique charm, like a faint fragrance in an empty valley, which permeates Su Dongpo's heart dimmed by the changes of the world. At this time, the sunny and sparkling West Lake has become another kind of scenery because of the sudden change of weather, cloudy days and misty mountains and rivers. The beauty of mountains and lakes set each other off and become interesting. Su Dongpo was inspired to write a quatrain about the West Lake, which has been celebrated through the ages. From then on, Su Dongpo liked Wang Chaoyun very much and married her.
Su Dongpo seems to have a good relationship with Wang Xing. His original wife, Wang Fu, was only sixteen when she married Su Jia. She was a good friend of Su Dongpo in Bandu, but she died at the age of 27. Into the deep sadness of Su Dongpo's feelings. Soon, she went on to marry Wang Run, the second cousin of her ex-wife, a dignified and capable woman. Now in Hangchow, she has taken Junna as a concubine. At this point, Su Dongpo was forty years old.
Su Dongpo is a person with unrestrained temperament in frankness. He likes to express his views in front of people, and he freely discusses his political views and expresses his dissatisfaction in his poems. "If a fly is eating, it will spit it out quickly." It is this character that has caused him disasters again and again, offended the powerful people of the current dynasty, been demoted several times, and even almost lost his life, but he never repented.
Among Su Dongpo's wives and concubines, Wang Chaoyun is the most gentle and virtuous, and knows Su Dongpo's mind best. Once, Su Dongpo retired to go home. After supper, he took a walk in the yard. Suddenly, he pointed to his abdomen and asked his concubine, "Do any of you know what I have here?" A maid replied, "Your stomach is full of things." Su Dongpo disagreed. Another maid said, "Everything is knowledge." Su Dongpo also shook his head. When she arrived in Wang Chaoyun, she smiled and said, "It is not appropriate for college students to have a belly." Su Dongpo laughed and praised: "He who knows me is only Chao Yun." Since then, I love Wang Chaoyun more.
Su Dongpo lived in Hangzhou for four years, and then moved to Mizhou, Xuzhou and Huzhou, constantly moving. Even because of the Wutai poetry case, he was demoted to Huangzhou. During this period, Wang Chaoyun always followed closely and had no regrets. When they were in Huangzhou, they lived in poverty. Su Dongpo wrote in his poem: "This year, mowing the grass to cover the snow hall, the sun blows ink." Wang Chaoyun is willing to share joys and sorrows with Su Dongpo, wearing a cloth and carefully adjusting Su Dongpo's daily life. She used cheap fat pork in Huangzhou, which was slow and tender, and baked a piece of meat that was soft and fat but not greasy, as Su Dongpo's favorite side dish. This is the later "Dongpo Meat" Yuanfeng for six years. Wang Chaoyun gave birth to a son for Su Dongpo, named Nianli, to remember the famous Jinghua #e# in the past. Now, "gradually unknown" is because cleverness has been outwitted, so I feel it and laugh at myself:
Everyone is looking forward to adopting a clever son, but I have been delayed by cleverness all my life;
I just hope that the children will be stupid and honest, and there will be no disaster and no trouble for the public.
After the death of Song Shenzong, Song Zhezong succeeded to the throne and appointed Sima Guang as the prime minister, completely abolishing Wang Anshi's new law; Therefore, Su Dongpo, who opposed the new law, was recalled to Beijing to be promoted to a bachelor's degree in Longtuge and served as a waiter for the little emperor. At this time, Su Dongpo was very appreciated by Xu An and the little emperor who was only 12 years old, and he was politically proud. It's hard to understand. When Dongpo's career was bleak and frustrated, Wang Chaoyun, who shared weal and woe with him, was not so important at this time. Officialdom entertainment and family affairs are naturally dominated by the second wife, Mrs. Wang Run; In the dead of night, Su Dongpo misses his dead wife Wang Fu from time to time. There is a little proverb:
Ten years of life and death are two boundless, disapproving and unforgettable. A lonely grave thousands of miles away has nowhere to talk. Even if I don't know each other, I sit on my face and my temples are frosty when I meet you. At night, I suddenly dreamed of going home, and the window of Xiao Xuan was being decorated. Care for each other without words, only tears. It is estimated that the annual heartbroken place, moonlit night, short matsuoka.
However, after only two years of scenery, Su Dongpo was once again pushed out of Beijing and became the magistrate of Hangzhou. After revisiting the old place, people in Hangzhou burned incense and fired guns along the road to welcome their beloved parents. In order to live up to expectations, in Wang Chaoyun's pillow talk, Su Dongpo came here this time, intending to do something useful for the people of Hangzhou. At that time, it coincided with the drought in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the famine and plague in Hangzhou were combined. So, Su Dongpo wrote to the court, requesting relief of Gong Mi; At the same time, open granaries and set up porridge sheds to help the victims; A large number of good folk doctors have also been sent to diagnose and treat diseases for the victims free of charge; Dig deep wells to divert water for irrigation, so as to help people survive the disaster. During his tenure, he attached great importance to the renovation of the West Lake, using weeds and silted mud in the lake to build dikes to connect the north and the south. Water chestnut and lotus root are widely planted in the lake, which makes the grass unable to regenerate; The dike is covered with hibiscus and willow trees. In the spring and autumn, bloom is like a brocade, and the green tapestry brushes across the embankment, and people walk on it as if they were in a painting. This series of renovation measures not only facilitates the traffic and beautifies the lake view, but more importantly, it can prevent the lake from silting and protect Hangzhou from the raging tide, which is indeed a great good thing for the people of Hangzhou. In order to commemorate Su Dongpo's virtue, later generations named this long dike "Su Gongdi", which actually included my wife's painstaking efforts to help Wang Chaoyun.
In the following ten years, Su Dongpo successively became the magistrate of Yingzhou and Yangzhou, and his second wife, Mrs. Wang, died. Song Zhezong has been in charge of state affairs, with Zhang Dun as prime minister, and a number of ministers with different political views have been demoted, including Su Dongpo, who was demoted to Huizhou (now Huiyang County, Guangdong Province), a barbarian land. At this point, he has been in the golden age. Seeing that the fortune has turned, it is rare to have hope of recovery. Many attendants and concubines scattered around, and only Wang Chaoyun followed Su Dongpo for a long journey and came to Huizhou over mountains. In this regard, Dongpo sighed deeply and wrote a poem:
Unlike Yang Zhi who is unhappy, just like Tong De and Lingyuan;
Anuluo Xiuxiu is different from the old one, and there is no female Vimo who always solves Zen.
New works of winding medicine furnace, old marriage of dancing shirt and singing board;
Dan Cheng chased me away from Sanshan; Don't be a fairy.
The poem is methodical: "There are several concubines in my family who resigned one after another in four or five years. I moved south alone because I read Lotte poems." When Bai Juyi was old and frail, Su Fan, a beautiful concubine who was deeply loved by him, slipped away quietly, so Bai Juyi had the poem "Spring Return with Fanzi", which was called "Dynasty Cloud and Su Fan Dancing Prostitutes", but their temperaments were quite different. Chaoyun's loyalty goes hand in hand, and adversity goes hand in hand with * *. How can we not let Su Dongpo feel grateful in his later years?
Wang Chaoyun gave birth to a son named adopted son for Su Dongpo in Huizhou. Because of postpartum disorder, he is very weak and has been difficult to recover. So I converted to Buddhism, worshipped Bhikuni as a teacher, and recited Buddhism every day, but it was useless. Soon he died in despair and helplessness at the age of 34. Before she died, she clasped Dongpo's hand and said meaningfully: "Everything in the world has a destiny. Life is like a dream, like lightning, and it is fleeting. Don't care too much." These words are not only the Zen principles she realized after she converted to Buddhism, but also her endless concern and concern for Su Dongpo, whether before or after her death. "
After Chao Yun's death, Su Dongpo buried her in the pine forest under the Great Sage Tower of Qi Zen Temple at the southern foot of Gushan Mountain in West Lake, Huizhou, and built Liu Ruting on the tomb to commemorate her, which is the origin of the couplet at the beginning. The West Lake in Huizhou, whose real name is Zhenfeng Lake, looks like the West Lake in Hangzhou, with green mountains and green waters, vast smoke waves and dancing blue shadows. Since Su Dongpo came, he often walked along the lake embankment and rowed with Wang Chaoyun, recalling his wonderful time in Hangzhou. Therefore, he named the landscape here with the name of the scenic spot of Hangzhou West Lake. This is their masterpiece, but unexpectedly, the lonely mountain in other places turned out to be the lonely place where Wang Chaoyun slept.
Travel far and wide, and lose company. Memories of the clouds gather in Su Dongpo's sad heart every day, and at night, they turn into a dream. He saw Chaoyun come to wait on him every night and nurse his young godson. He always saw that her clothes were all wet, asked why, and replied, "It was caused by crossing the lake to go home every night." Su Dongpo couldn't bear to wake up, so he built a lake embankment across the lake to let people fall asleep in the face of clouds. This dike is also called "Su Gong Dike" by later generations. On the day I built the embankment, I dreamed that I came to thank the clouds that night, and my voice and face were as good as before. At this time, Su Dongpo was exhausted physically and mentally, leaving only memories and nostalgia for the past in his life, especially for Chaoyun, who wrote the poem "Xijiang Moon":
Jade bone is so sad and foggy.
#e#？ Ice muscle has its own fairy wind,
When the sea moves, it passes through the fragrant bushes and hangs upside down.
Plain face is not too pink, and red lips do not fade when washing makeup.
The high sentiment has vanished, and I don't dream with Lihua.
In memory of Wang Chaoyun, Su Dongpo deliberately managed the West Lake in Huizhou, building towers, dikes and planting plums, trying to call back the long-lost days with these familiar scenery. However, beauty is gone. It is really "people like Qiu Hong have faith, and things are like spring dreams."
She walked towards the clouds, but her shadow was engraved in Su Dongpo's heart, and also in the landscape and flowers of Huizhou West Lake. Thinking about the joys and sorrows of talented people and beautiful women in the distance makes people laugh and cry. After becoming a vulture mage, there is a poem that says "six pavilions":
Su Causeway hate, wasteland against warehouse town;
The flowing water is eternal, and the fragrant soul leans on the pavilion.
Bohan three islands are green, and Liusuo six bridges are green;
Lonely Zen Temple, where can King Kong listen?