In Su Dongpo's era, the exchange of wine, food and geisha between official duties was a part of officialdom. Geisha in Song Dynasty became popular as a new form of poetry, and it was a lyric poem.
Su Dongpo doesn't have a secret crush on any geisha, but loves to drink heavily, take part in accidental amusement with women, and doesn't take concubines to hide his charm, which is inseparable from his wife's trust and understanding.
His wife knows that she married a poet that everyone loves and has a comfortable home and social status, so she is bent on being a good wife.
Mrs. Su is smart, sensible and smooth, and will not push her husband into the arms of a geisha. Besides, men can't control it, even the emperor is useless, so the most beautiful thing she has done is to trust her husband.
She makes Meizhou hometown dishes that her husband likes to eat, ginger tea that her husband likes to drink, and puts up with her husband's thunderous snoring when he sleeps. Mrs. Su's mind is refreshing and steady, while the poet's husband is often irritable and moody, and their personalities complement each other.
Su Dongpo's first love was his cousin. He does not live in Hangzhou all the year round, but often goes to the southwest and west of Hangzhou.
His cousin gets married near Jingjiang, and he sometimes lives at his cousin's house. I even bought a house and a field in Changzhou, because it was not far from my cousin's house, and later I died in Changzhou.
Although Su Dongpo may have a crush on her cousin, at that time, her cousin could not fall in love, because she could not marry her cousin against custom, because her cousin was also surnamed Su.
Su Dongpo sees life thoroughly and cherishes it, so he doesn't want to spend his life between alcohol and women. He is a poet who loves nature more and has a healthy outlook on life.
Chapter XII riot poems
Some of Su Dongpo's poems are relaxed and happy, some are sad, some are ironic, some are landscape poems, and some are love poems. However, under the surface of the laughter and joy of these poems, there is an atmosphere of disappointment, anxiety and even fear.
At that time, in the imperial court, I hated talking about state affairs. His style of writing poetry is bound to get me into trouble.
Su Dongpo's feelings are beyond words. It's hard to say unhappy when you are happy, and it's hard to pretend to be happy when you are unhappy. At that time, many loyal ministers had died; Some retire; Others concentrate on reading, such as Sima Guang; Others, such as Dongpo's disciples, are wise and keep silent about practical things.
Only Su Dongpo was tactless, disliked the miserable life of the people, and expressed his feelings frankly. Although he knew that his poems would soon spread to Beijing, he didn't care.
The more poems Su Dongpo writes, the more he writes and the more he accumulates, the more he can see that he despises the authority of those in power and is cynical about those in power. Although his poems did not openly oppose the authorities, they made some people fidgety and numb like mosquito bites. Coupled with the publication of these poems by a good friend of Su Dongpo, some people are even more annoyed.
After Su Dongpo's tenure in Hangzhou expired, because his younger brother Ziyou worked in Shandong, Su Dongpo asked to be transferred to Shandong, which shows that they are brothers.
Later, Wang Anshi left his post and Lv Huiqing came to power. In Su Dongpo's poems, he wrote that children died on the side of the road, hiding and burying bodies, and tears filled their eyes.
At that stage, his poetry reached a full maturity, and the initial anger in his poetry turned into a quiet and peaceful style. On that saddest day, he wrote the best poems, and at the same time, Su Dongpo also wrote good poems for his brother.