Su Shi was brilliant when he was a teenager. Under the guidance of his father, Su Xun, and his teachers, he read widely and learned from others. But he gradually became proud of his talent, and his conceit was beyond words. On this day, he drank wine and wrote poems. He felt that he was still wanting more, so he became interested in writing, so he wrote a couplet and posted it on the door:
Know all the words in the world and read all the books in the world.
After posting couplets, Su Shi got carried away. Before long, this pair of couplets attracted a handsome old man to watch. Holding a pamphlet, he went to the door to ask Su Shi for advice. After the old man sat down, he said with a smile, "It is said that Su Caizi is knowledgeable and chinese odyssey is old and incompetent. Now he doesn't know a few words in the book. Please give some advice. "
Su Shi picked up the book and saw that it was a strange seal script, but he didn't know a word. He suddenly woke up and thought that someone must have read my couplets and thought I was conceited, so he warned me. ?
He didn't feel ashamed, so he quickly knelt down to the ground and said that it was a couplet written on a whim, which was exaggerated and said that he would be modest and unpretentious in the future. The old man nodded and smiled, even claiming to be good. After seeing off the old man, Su Shi immediately added two words to the couplet, which became:
Make up your mind to read all the books in the world.
After that, he was no longer arrogant, but assiduously studied knowledge, and finally made great achievements, leaving many eternal songs, and he himself became a great writer.
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Su Shi was an encyclopedic talent in ancient China. He has made great achievements in literature, poetry and ci, which can be said to be the representative of the highest achievements in Song literature. Moreover, Su Shi's creative activities are not limited to literature. He has made outstanding achievements in calligraphy, painting and other fields, and also made contributions in medicine, cooking, water conservancy and other skills.
Su Shi enjoyed a high reputation in the literary world at that time. He inherited Ouyang Xiu's spirit and attached great importance to discovering and cultivating literary talents. At that time, there were many young writers around him, such as Huang Tingjian, Chao and Qin Guan, who were collectively called "Four Bachelor's degree in Sumen".
Together with Chen Shidao and Li Zhi, they are called "Six Gentlemen of Sumen". In addition, Li, Li Zhiyi, Tang Geng, Zhang Shunmin, Kong, He Zhu and others were also directly or indirectly influenced by Su Shi. Su Shi's achievements include all kinds of literary styles, and his own creation has no fixed norms to follow, so Su Men writers present different faces in their creation.
Huang Tingjian is good at poetry, Qin Guan is good at ci, Li Zhi is good at classical Chinese, and Zhang and Chao are good at poetry. At the same time, their artistic styles also have their own personalities. For example, Huang's poems are innovative, Chen's poems are simple, and their styles are not good. Later, Huang and Chen also opened another school.
Su Shi's works were very famous at that time and were very popular in Liao countries, North Korea and other places. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the court once banned the circulation of Su Shi's works, but the stricter the ban, the wider it spread. By the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Su Shi's collected works were widely circulated with various versions, and were repeatedly engraved in later dynasties.
In the eyes of later scholars, Su Shi is a brilliant literary master, and people compete to learn nutrition from Su Shi's works. In the era of confrontation between Jin State and Southern Song Dynasty, Su Shi had a far-reaching influence on both the north and the south. Su Shi's poems not only influenced the poems and songs of the Song Dynasty, but also inspired the poets of the Ming Dynasty and the Song Dynasty in the early Qing Dynasty.
Su Shi's spirit of liberating ci style was directly inherited by the new school of ci poets in the Southern Song Dynasty, forming a bold ci school that kept pace with graceful ci, and its influence has been spread to people in the Qing Dynasty. Su Shi's prose, especially his essays, is the artistic source of the unique spirit of the prose of the police school in Ming Dynasty. Until the Qing Dynasty, the influence of Su Wen could still be seen in the prose of Yuan Mei and Zheng Xie.
Su Shi's amiable and humorous image remained in the minds of ordinary people in later generations. His travels around the world and his life inventions are all topics talked about by later generations. Among the writers in the Song Dynasty, Su Shi is unparalleled in terms of the degree of being widely loved by later generations.
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