“When a child falls, if he glances around and sees that no adult is around, he doesn’t cry and just gets up by himself. - The pain of someone caring for you is even more painful. No one, you owe Noble, but strong." So, let's learn about the ancient inspirational story of Mi Fu, one of the four masters of calligraphy!
Huang Tingjian, a great poet of the Song Dynasty, was named Valley. He came from Su Dongpo's family, and his poems were as famous as Su Dongpo's. People at that time called them "Su Huang". Huang Shangu's poetry, calligraphy and painting are known as the "Three Wonders". Not only did he have a literary name, he was also very filial. For this reason, he encountered a major event that affected his life.
After becoming a Jinshi in the valley, he was appointed by the imperial court as the local magistrate of Wuhu at the age of twenty-six. One day while taking a nap, he had a dream. He dreamed that he walked out of the government office and came to a house. There was an old woman at the door, standing in front of an offering table with a bowl of celery noodles. The mother-in-law held the incense in her hand and shouted: "So-and-so! Come back to eat noodles." Gu Gu unconsciously picked up the noodles and ate them. After eating, he walked back to the government office.
After waking up, the things in the dream were still vivid in his mind, and the smell of celery was still in his mouth, which made him really puzzled. The next day in his nap dream, he came to the place where he was yesterday again, and the smell of celery was still in his mouth. Gu Gu couldn't help but wake up, quickly got up and got dressed, followed the path remembered in yesterday's dream, and finally came to When I arrived at a house, the owner was the mother-in-law I saw in my dream yesterday. Gu Gu then asked her about eating noodles yesterday.
The mother-in-law said: "Yesterday was the anniversary of my daughter's death. Because she liked to eat celery noodles the most during her lifetime, so every year on her death anniversary, I will serve a bowl of celery noodles and ask her to come back to eat." Valley. Asked how long it had been since her daughter died, her mother-in-law said, "It's been twenty-six years." Gu Gu thought to himself that he was also twenty-six years old this year, and yesterday was also his birthday. Surprised, I talked to my mother-in-law about various situations when her daughter was still alive.
The mother-in-law said that when her daughter was still alive, she loved reading, was a vegetarian, believed in Buddhism, and was very filial. Before she turned twenty-six, she said she would definitely come back to see her. The mother-in-law pointed to a large wooden cabinet in the house and said that all the books her daughter had read in her life were locked inside, but she didn't know where the key was. The strange thing is that Gu Gu suddenly remembered the place where he had put the key before, and found the key to open the wooden cabinet and found many manuscripts inside. When he took a closer look, he was surprised to find that all the articles he had written every time he took an exam in his life were found in these manuscripts, word for word.
At this point, Gu Gu has completely understood that this old woman is his mother in the previous life! So he took his mother-in-law back to the government office and took care of her for more than a few years. Later, he embarked on the path of Zen meditation and enlightenment.
Yuan Mei, a writer in the Qing Dynasty, couldn't help but sigh after hearing this story: "It's too late to read the book in this life." The past and present life are bound together, and they may seem mysterious, but they are not necessarily false. In life, some accidental encounters, some vague memories, and some recurring dreams may contain many unknown causes and conditions!