During the Northern Song Dynasty, the Song people led the Liao state to invade. However, the imperial court, which was bent on peace, attracted an envoy from Liao State, and sent a couplet asking the Song people to answer correctly: Three Lights, the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. Withdraw troops and make peace if the bottom allied. This couplet seems simple, but it is not easy to be right. The numbers in the sentence are just the same as those in the back, and the numbers selected in the sentence correspond to more or less than three things.
Su Shi, who happened to return to Beijing to report on his work, skillfully combined the upper and lower couplets with a stroke of his hand: four poems are elegant and elegant. There are only three names for this couplet in the Four Poems, because there are "elegance" and "elegance" in the Book of Songs, which are collectively called "elegance". In addition, there are four parts of "national style" and "ode to poetry", so the Book of Songs is also called "four poems". The quip is natural, and Liao admires it to the extreme.
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Personal achievements
Su Shi has made extraordinary achievements in the creation of Ci. As far as the development of a style itself is concerned, the historical contribution of Su Ci has surpassed that of Su Wen and Su Shi. After Liu Yong, Su Shi carried out a comprehensive reform of the style of Ci, and finally broke through the traditional pattern of Ci as "Yan Ke", improved the literary status of Ci, and changed Ci from an accessory of music to an independent lyric style, which fundamentally changed the development direction of Ci history.
Anecdotes and allusions
When he was in Huangzhou, Su Shi often interacted with Zen master Fo Yin, the host of Jinshan Temple. One day, Su Shi wrote a poem, "Looking at the sky in the sky, there is a thousand lights, but the eight winds can't blow, sitting on the purple lotus" and presented it to Fo Yin. The Zen master immediately approved the word "fart" and asked the extremely young man to bring it back.
Dongpo was furious when he saw this. He immediately crossed the river and asked the Zen master. The Zen master laughed: "Bachelor, bachelor, you are not' eight winds can't blow'. Why did you cross the river with another fart?" "Eight winds can't blow" can be found in Volume 5 of Buddhist Classics, and it is also found in Hanshan's poems. Eight winds are Buddhist terms, which refer to eight kinds of winds: weighing, ridiculing, destroying, fame, profit, decline, bitterness and joy.
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