Easy lives are all similar, and difficult lives are each difficult in its own way.
Is life really not easy? Um. But there are always some things that are easy to get without any effort, such as: easy to get fat, easy to be poor, easy to get sick.
As expected, no one wants something that can be obtained without any effort.
People always strive to move forward in the pursuit of beauty, wealth and health, but things often backfire and they cannot get rid of three easy troubles.
The wheel of history keeps moving forward, and things in it just start over and over again.
Come on, let’s take a look at how those outstanding writers and artists from ancient and modern times who share our deepest feelings faced obesity, poverty, and illness.
Su Shi: The only way to relieve worries is to eat meat
Su Shi was a famous writer, calligrapher, painter and gourmet in the Northern Song Dynasty. If the Internet had existed in the Northern Song Dynasty, Mr. Dongpo would definitely have been a responsible big V foodie.
He likes eating meat and sweets very much. He invented about thirty-two kinds of delicacies, the most famous of which is Dongpo meat, Dongpo cuttlefish, Dongpo tofu, and Dongpo jelly. He invented something delicious.
He has written countless poems about food, including "Wild Pheasant", "Bream Fish", "Break Fish Line", "Sending Bamboo Shoots, Peony and Public Selection", "Spring Vegetables", "April" I ate lychees, "bean porridge" for the first time on the 11th day, and even the porridge... basically I ate after cooking, then wrote after eating, and then continued eating after writing. Every time I wrote poems, I gained three pounds.
How fat is Dongpo? He himself claimed in the poem "Baoshan Day Sleep": "Seven feet tall and slim to walk in the world, ten feet wide to store innocence." He said that he was seven feet tall and ten feet wide. Waist, this self-disgrace is too much, but the word "belly" cannot cover up the fact that the belly is fat and round.
"Dongpo Zhilin" also records an incident:
After Su Dongpo drank alcohol one day, he pointed to his belly and asked the concubines and servants around him: "What's in my belly?" What is it?" One said: "Article." Another said: "Information." He shook his head. Only Chaoyun smiled and said: "You, you are full of untimely things." Su Shi clapped his hands and laughed: "Only Chaoyun can know me." We don't know what is in the belly, but it must be big enough.
Everyone knows that Su Shi was demoted throughout his life. When he was exiled to Huangzhou, he was desperate. How desperate you are, check out "Huangzhou Cold Food Post" by yourself. When he discovered the pork in Huangzhou, he immediately got excited and wrote "Ode to Pork". The core idea was: Huangzhou pork is so cheap! Then, he began to eat Dongpo pork elbows and Dongpo meat frequently and drank until he developed hemorrhoids.
He was demoted as far away as Hainan. This was quite depressing for him. Until he discovered the oysters in Hainan, his eyes suddenly lit up. So I wrote a letter to my son saying, Damn, the oysters are so delicious! Don't tell the people in Chaoli. If you do, they will definitely come to Hainan to compete with Dad!
In the eyes of foodies, anything can be turned into delicious food. One time I took medicine and it was too bitter. Su Shi said, I don’t drink, I don’t drink. Just kill me. The family members were particularly helpless. Then, he looked at the raw materials of the medicinal materials and came up with a plan. Said, otherwise, I will cook these things. He started blinking again, and the family members looked at each other. Later, Su Shi's Poria Cake was born...
Nothing can stop foodies from exploring delicious food.
When you are relegated, you need to eat; when you go sightseeing, you need to eat; when you are sick, you need to eat; when you are chatting with your family, you need to eat.
Travel and food are my main occupations, literature and art are just accidents. As for being an official, haha. Come on, come on, you're welcome, let's eat together.
"The Tao Te Ching" says that "governing a big country is like cooking small delicacies", and the same is true for governing life. What Su Dongpo was best at was not cooking fish or meat, but cooking destiny. No matter what the destiny is, he can cook and process it, turn it into a popular poem, and turn it into a unique taste in the world.
When I was a child, I liked Li Bai because he was a star in the sky; now I like Su Shi because he is a human being in the mortal world.
As a human being, your mentality cannot be defeated.
In the early 19th century, there was a great poet named Byron in England, who struggled with himself all day long because of his young age.
Byron: Don’t give me food, I want to lose weight!
It is said that Byron was a handsome man with good looks and connotation. But his beautiful appearance was not natural. In order to maintain a perfect figure, he struggled painfully with obesity almost every day in his life. When it was time to grow, he did not eat meat or milk, and lived on a small spoonful of rice, two biscuits, and a glass of soda every day.
In addition, he also practiced fencing, boxing, horse riding and swimming for a long time. Wear 7 pieces of underwear and sweat to lose weight while playing cricket. At the age of 19, he successfully lost about 10 kilograms of weight in 5 months. Alas, the path of a male god is really difficult to walk.
A literary man named Samuel Rogers once invited Byron to dinner. At the dinner table, he was astonished by his maddeningly restrained diet.
Brother dei, I am not talking about you. In this kind of conversation, in a certain Gada, you may not survive the third sentence...
People should not struggle at the age they should. Choose comfort, but don't abuse yourself in such a way that everything will turn against you. Byron's weight loss method was still a bit extreme, and in the end, he unfortunately passed away at the age of 36.
If being fat is a fate, why not choose to be a happy fat person?
Good looks will eventually grow old, but interesting souls will bring you a rich and happy life.
Besides, being fat is nothing compared to being poor.
Zhu Da: Let me give you a look and you will understand for yourself
Zhu Da, a painter in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the ninth grandson of Zhu Quan, the seventeenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The grandson of the royal family, if the Ming Dynasty had not fallen, the word "poor" might not have been in his life dictionary.
After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, he became a monk and became a desperado, and later converted to Taoism. From rich to poor, from rich to humble, he chose to place his lonely soul in creation. He wrote in the poem on the painting, "There are not many ink spots but many tears, and the mountains and rivers are still the same as before. The coconut trees branched out in the troubled times have been left to be copied carefully by writers."
This is how it started. The ups and downs of his experience allowed Zhu Da to show his amazing artistic talent. The "arrogant, contemptuous and nervous" little white eyes of the birds, fish and deer he painted were painted with just a few strokes and without any powder, but no one could match them. ! As complex as his emotions are, the emotions of small animals are also complex.
When Zhu Da was sixty years old, he began to write poems and paintings with the signature of "Bada Shanren". When he signed his signature, he often connected the four characters "Bada Shanren" together, as if "crying", The word "laugh" expresses his painful mood of being confused about whether to laugh or cry. At the same time, eight is part of the character "Zhu", which is well-intentioned.
Does this signature look like an emoticon? If the eyes of the animals in the painting can also be made into emoticons, it will be a leader in the emoticon industry.
(Dong dong, knock on the blackboard, Bada Shanren is one person, and his name is Zhu Da [dā]! The eight people you are thinking of are from the set of "Journey to the East". It's different, dear ! )
Gauguin: I want freedom
Gauguin, the French post-impressionist painter, was a stockbroker before embarking on the road of art. Yes, he is in your heart. The most profitable jobs are in the financial sector, and the economic situation is very good. Marrying a wife and having children went very smoothly, and the conditions of the wife were also very good. Basically, you can live a life of a winner early on.
However, he has no intention of chatting in the circle of friends, and he is not interested in attending fake gatherings of the upper class. He is unhappy and has no direction, because he finds that he has a more important mission to complete. I started learning painting at the age of 26. At the age of 35, in order to be able to paint all day long, I resolutely resigned from my position at the stock exchange without any discussion.
Then, he began his impoverished wandering painting career. At this time, his soul was free and his spirit was happy. It is common to be penniless, and it is common to be without food for several days. I often work part-time to make money for painting, and I have long been accustomed to receiving cold looks and contempt.
It doesn’t matter that the conditions are bad, or that my health is not good, what matters is that I have to paint.
After 1890, Gauguin became increasingly tired of civilized society and fled to the wilderness. Tahiti in the Pacific Ocean became his destination. In 1897, the torture of poverty and disease made him unbearable and he attempted suicide. During his struggle and suffering, he created the masterpiece "Where Do We Come From?" that shocked the world. What are we? Where are we going? ”, the entire work is more than 3 meters long, showing the viewer the trilogy of human beings from birth to death. Primitive and civilized, rebirth and death, body and soul... This year, he was 50 years old, and he was still 6 years away from death.
Gauguin believed that
Both the natural world and the soul world are very critical to painters. Artists must escape from the minutiae of the real world and explore the truth of deeper and more complex existence.
See, you all want to be locked in the prison of money and material things, but the rich people think about how to break out.
Does art inspire poverty, or does poverty inspire art?
While people are mocking the artist's downfall, they are also licking the value of the famous artwork.
Vulgarity and greatness are born in contradiction and finally contradict each other.
Thinking is painful, ignorance is bliss. Genius and madness are just one step away, and many artists are exactly the kind of people who are between genius and madness. Artists are a group prone to diseases, especially mental illnesses.
British psychologist Dr. Felix Post used modern psychopathological analysis methods to study 300 famous figures in modern times and concluded that 17% of politicians have obvious psychotic characteristics. 18 among scientists, 37 among painters, and the largest among writers, 46...
Edward Munch: I Want to Scream
Edvard Munch, the pioneer of Norwegian Expressionist painting Gram, he was trapped in the swamp of depression all his life and could not escape. The depression was inherited from his father, but he miraculously lived to be eighty years old.
His mother died of tuberculosis early, and he was raised by his father alone. His older sister, with whom he had a close relationship, and his mentally ill younger sister died one after another. He was weak since childhood, and the shadow of illness and death has always shrouded his childhood. He once said,
My fear of life is like my disease. They are inseparable from me. Losing them will destroy my art. .
After his father passed away in 1889, his spirit became even more insufferable, and his character became melancholy, withdrawn, and desperate. The famous painting "The Scream" was born from his anxiety disorder.
One time at sunset, he was walking on the street with his friends. The sun was setting and the sky became as red as blood. Facing this scene, he suddenly had a panic attack, trembling and unable to move. Feel the natural strong cry.
Edvard Munch’s works mostly use themes of life, death, love, terror and loneliness. Bold colors, powerful lines and exaggerated shapes convey his pessimistic view of life and strongly convey his pessimistic view of life. Express your feelings and emotions.
He used his creation to open up his claustrophobic emotional channels, reveal his unconscious emotions unconsciously, and release the huge spiritual energy generated in his heart.
Yayoi Kusama: I’m not easy to mess with
Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese avant-garde artist, the nemesis of trypophobia, is as influential as Pop Art leader Andy Warhol .
She grew up in a privileged family, but her father was a romantic and her mother had a hot temper. They were busy doing business and did not pay attention to her. She did not like to laugh, and her childhood life was unhappy. This misfortune continues to this day.
When she was less than 10 years old, she suffered from neurological audio-visual impairment and often had auditory and visual hallucinations. In her hallucinations, pebbles by the river would fly towards her, dogs would open their mouths to speak, violets would grow human faces, mountains in the distance would suddenly sparkle, and the world would seem to be separated by a layer of speckled nets... She often She had the urge to commit suicide, and she found the best way to release her fear was to draw the hallucinations after she woke up.
She kept drawing, trying to express her hallucinations with repeated dots - mental illness and artistic creation accompanied her almost all her life.
In 1957, she went to the United States alone and established her status as the "Queen of the Avant-Garde". She returned to Tokyo 30 years ago and voluntarily lived in a mental sanatorium. She was creating every day when she was nearly 90 years old.
She often told the media: "If it were not for art, I would have committed suicide long ago."
She has used half a century of creation to prove herself, dots and mental illness became her most famous label and is now regarded as Japan's greatest living artist.
Some people say: Melancholy is the source of inspiration for art. It is neurological audio-visual impairment that makes Kusama Yayoi.
Hey, please be sober. Suffering from neurological diseases due to family reasons since childhood is inherently unfortunate. Painting is just a helpless release and buffer. She may want love and happiness more than fame and fortune, but she can't get it.
Family tragedy and discord are the greatest harm to children. Warmth and love can illuminate the heart of every child.
If there is an afterlife, may they be treated gently by the years.
I clearly wrote about the three easy things, but after finishing writing, I discovered that life is still not easy?
No matter whether it is easy or not, at least you are not fighting alone. We should learn more about Teacher Dongpo’s state of mind and turn the bitterness, joy, and sourness of life into a unique flavor of the world.
May life be in harmony with shades; may people’s hearts be at peace both far and near.
A maverick rabbit, a magical cute little boy. I once dreamed of traveling to the ends of the world with my sword, but now I conquer the world with my words. Love life, love imagination, wander between liberal arts, science and art, and switch between sensibility and rationality. When I start typing, I can write smoothly, put down the keyboard and travel around. There is faith in the heart and power in the pen.