2. Related to friends, Su Shi, Fo Yin and Huang Tingjian happen to be three masters of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Buddhism and Taoism certainly had an important influence on Su Shi. They are also teachers and friends. They are each other's life mentors.
The most important thing is Su Shi's own temperament. He should be an outgoing, optimistic and open-minded person by nature.
Shi's personality (including open-mindedness) is closely related to his family background, knowledge and personal experience. Su Wei, the great ancestor of Shi, has lived in Meishan for more than 300 years since he was demoted as the secretariat of Meishan. Although the family background is declining, generations are charitable, as Su Shi himself said, "My family has not been afraid for 300 years, but Yin Gong is unknown."
Song Renzong Jingyou three years, Su Shi was born, ranking second. When he was six or seven, his parents taught him to read and write. He went to primary school at the age of eight and taught his teacher Zhang, who was a Taoist. I was very clever with Su Like Shi and told Su Shi all the characters in Li Qing Shengde's poems. Since then, the images of Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu have been rooted in his young mind. At the age of ten, he began to write a composition, and he worshipped Sima Xiangru, the master of China Fu. He is determined to "make a good impression". Later, he wrote that "young people have strange desires for the southern organ", that is to say, he is determined to play banjo and sing Nanfeng poems like Yao Shun to govern the world and relieve the suffering of the people all over the world.
In the fifth year of Jiayou, the imperial court increased the system examination, and the candidates had to be recommended by appointed officials. Ouyang Xiu strongly recommended Su Shi, who has both talent and knowledge. Su Shi made a strategic theory of 50 thousand words. From the beginning, he criticized the court that "the world has the name of peace, but there is no real peace." It is clearly pointed out that: first, the border disaster will not go away, second, the merger is serious, and third, the organization is complex. During the imperial examination, he wrote seven more articles, namely "Courtesy to Cultivate People" and "Imperial Examination and Policy". After reading it, Renzong said happily, "Today my descendants have two prime ministers! Since then, he began a 40-year political career.
After Su Shi entered, he experienced several ups and downs. Especially against Wang Anshi's reformists. He and others hated Su Shi and wanted to kill him. They created the famous Wutai Poetry Case in history. After Su Shi went to prison, he was prepared to accept a strict investigation, went through all the hardships and almost died. He sighed: "I'm tired of writing all my life, and I've never lost my reputation." This is a summary of my life and a warning to myself in the future. Later, with the Empress Dowager in charge, Su Shi's luck changed, and he was promoted to a scholar for the imperial use, ranking second only to the prime minister, but closer to the emperor, that is, what he called "Bai Shoudai" spoke for the emperor. A tree attracts the wind, and a high talent is taboo. He thought he had many opposites in the imperial court, so he repeatedly invited him to resign as a bachelor of Hanlin, but he was not allowed. Sure enough, before long, the storm began again. In May of the eighth year of Yuanfeng, he learned that someone had bought a field in Yixing, and he happily wrote the title of Zhuxi Temple, saying, "When the mountain temple came back, it smelled good words, and wild flowers sang birds." It was attacked and framed by the Romanian Party headed by Cheng Yi. They confused "I'm glad to hear the good news" with the death of Emperor Zongshen, thinking that he was happy because the emperor died. This is the so-called "Luoshu Party Congress". Shortly after the death of Empress Dowager Tai, a large-scale crusade against Yuan You's old ministers began, and Su Shi was demoted to Dingzhou. Since then, he has traveled to ten counties and spent most of his life running around.
To sum up, Su Shi's bumpy life experience, from a commoner to a scholar, from a prisoner to a senior official, can be described as "walking Wan Li Road for half a day". Coupled with the good education I received since I was a child, I integrated Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, worn out the iron inkstone, saw through the world, "accompanied by fish and shrimp, friends with elk", raised a coarse wine glass, and tasted the old white dry, forming an admirable unique character.