The most famous word is the word "Life is like a dream" in Niannujiao Chibi Nostalgia. However, compared with the life in the poem, such as "Hong Fei stepping through the snow", the "life is like a dream" in the poem seems to be more thorough and particularly heavy, and it is integrated into his life experience and deep thinking for most of his life.
Let's take a look at his life experience: Su Shi is brilliant, young and promising. When he first entered middle school, he won Ouyang Xiu's reputation of "I will be the only one in the world in the future" and "I should avoid this person and get the first chance". From this point of view, "climbing to the top" seems not difficult. I didn't expect that the world was so difficult and there were so many storms, but I turned over two somersaults in the official sea for most of my life (one was demoted to Huangzhou and the other was further demoted to Lingnan), which almost sent him to Hainan Island and ended up in the end of the world.
Fate's playing tricks on him and the drastic changes in his life will naturally trigger his "dreamlike" psychological reaction. Readers familiar with classical literature will not be surprised that this "dreamlike life" is caused by the strong contrast of life experiences. As early as in the novels of the Tang Dynasty, there were Pillow Story and biography of Conan.
Didn't the protagonists Lu Sheng and Chun Yuba create the idiom "Huang Guan Yi Meng" and "Nan Zhi Yi Meng" just because they experienced the aging from senior officials to senior officials, the life changes of illness, or resigned their posts and returned to their hometowns? Therefore, Su Shi's life perception of "life is like a dream" is not generalized, but actually integrated into his own life experience.
Mr. Dongpo's attitude towards life's hardship or prosperity is worth learning from later generations.
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Su Shi's turning point in life: Wutai poetry case
In the second year of Yuanfeng (1079), 43-year-old Su Shi was transferred to Huzhou. After taking office, he wrote a letter to Huzhou to thank the table. This is a routine, but Su Shi is a poet and often writes emotionally. Even if I wrote a red-headed document, I would never forget to add a little personal color, saying that I am "stupid and ill-timed, and it is difficult to catch up with newcomers" and "the old people can keep quiet and raise the king".
These words were used by the new party, saying that he "fooled North Korea, was conceited", "blamed others", "accused and abused others", "had ulterior motives", satirized the government and was rude and disloyal to the emperor. Such a big crime can be said to deserve to die. They picked out sentences that they thought implied sarcasm from a large number of Su Shi's poems, and for a time there was an anti-Soviet voice in the court.
On July 28th, Su Shi, who had been in office for only three months, was arrested by Yushitai officials and escorted to Beijing. Dozens of people are involved. This is the famous "Wutai Poetry Case" in the Northern Song Dynasty (Wutai, the Jade Terrace, is called Wutai because there are cypresses planted on it and crows inhabit it all the year round).
The great blow of Wutai poetry case became the turning point of Su Shi's life. The new party insisted on killing Su Shi, and the ruling and opposition parties also launched rescue activities. Not only many elders who share the same political views with Su Shi wrote articles in succession, but even some people of insight in the reformists also advised Zongshen not to kill Su Shi.
Wang Anshi retired to Jinling at that time, and also wrote: "How about killing talents with saints?" Thanks to everyone's efforts, this poem case was judged by Wang Anshi, and Su Shi was given a lighter sentence, demoted to Huangzhou (now Huanggang, Hubei) as an assistant envoy, "placed in this state" and monitored by local officials. Su Shi was imprisoned 103 days and was killed. Thanks to Song Taizu's national policy of not killing Zhao Kuangyin literati, he dodged a bullet. ?
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Su Shi