life experience
Su Shunqin was born in Kaifeng (now Kaifeng, Henan Province) in the first year of Dazhong Xiangfu in the Northern Song Dynasty (1008), and his ancestral home was Tongshan, Zizhou (now Zhongjiang, Sichuan Province). Grandfather Su Yijian took part in politics when he was in Song Taizong. Father Su Jian, Ministry of Industry official, Hedong traffic ambassador. When Su Shunqin was young, he advocated ancient prose with Mu Xiu, regardless of secular ridicule, earlier than the ancient prose movement initiated by Athena Chu and Ouyang Xiu. At the age of 22, due to his father's official position, he was able to make up for Zhailang of the ancestral temple and the county commandant of Xingyang (now Henan), and he was a scholar in the first year of Jing You (1034). He has served as the county magistrate of Mengcheng (now Anhui) and Changyuan (now Henan).
Su Shunqin is politically inclined to the reformists headed by Fan Zhongyan. In the fourth year of Li Qing (1044), Fan Zhongyan, Du Yan, Fu Bi and others recruited talents and prepared to implement the new law. Du Yan's son-in-law, Su Shunqin, was recommended by Fan Zhongyan as the supervisor of Jixian Temple and was put in prison. In this proposal, Wang Cheng Chen Gong and others opposed political reform. When entering the performance venue to worship God, Su Shunqin used unopened waste paper to exchange money for wine and banquets. Wang pretended to be a prison army and stole from himself to attack Fan and Du. Su Shunqin was demoted for the people, and more than a dozen celebrities attending the meeting were exiled at the same time. After being abandoned, he left Kaifeng and built Canglang Pavilion in Suzhou. He lives in seclusion. In the eighth year (1048), Li Qing was re-appointed as the chief history of Huzhou, and died before he took office. He was only 4 1 year old when he died.
Literary achievements
Su Shunqin was famous for his articles when he was young. He was not bound by the grandiose style of writing at that time, and devoted himself to the writing of ancient prose and poetry together with Mu Xiu, which had a positive impact on many writers of the same period in terms of poetry innovation. Ouyang Xiu's Preface to Su Wen's Anthology said that "the beauty of a child is not as good as the beauty of a poem, and learning ancient prose is behind", which highly praised his position in the poetry innovation movement. The basic viewpoint of literary thought is "starting from ancient times and aiming at use" (stone poem), which emphasizes inheriting the realistic spirit in Confucian literary thought and literature should reflect reality. His views on prose creation can be found in Duan Gongshu, deputy envoy of the Third Division of Shanghai Municipal People's Congress: "It is said that people are people because of their words; People who say it will be attributed to morality; Tao and righteousness, ze in things and then there. If it is, it will be immortal. " Therefore, we dare not cut it at the expense of our rights. "This is in the same strain as Han Yu's literary theory. His view of poetry creation is mainly reflected in Shi's collection of poems, Poetry and Life. People believe in happiness and sadness, and they must have comfortable words. " "In ancient times, those who have the world, if you want to know the feelings of the wind and religion, will stand upright, and the officials will listen to their words, and they can relax their affairs and think enough." Therefore, "there is no reason for dereliction of duty." "Since then, the official waste, poetry is not passed on, and the superior no longer knows the people's feelings. Therefore, governance is troublesome and corrupt. "This is consistent with Bai Juyi's poetic spirit.
Su Shunqin's literary creation can be divided into two periods.
In the early days, his literary activities were closely related to his political activities. Many books about emperors and ruling ministers broke the shackles of Li and Liu, criticized the shortcomings and demanded reforms with sharp writing and heated discussions, most of which were combative political papers. The outstanding characteristics of poetry are also political and combative, and they often express their views on political events and practical problems at that time. For example, in the third song of "Feeling Xing", Lin Shusheng was sentenced to write a book, exposing and criticizing the cruel means of the rulers to block the way of speech. The gyeongju defeat is a war of humiliating teachers and the country, which sharply criticizes the cowardice and incompetence of the chief commander and the improper employment of the rulers. Five-character novels, such as The Feeling of the Winter Trade, The Feeling of the Forever Uncle in the South of the City, and The Drought in Wuyue, profoundly reflect social phenomena such as natural and man-made disasters, class contradictions, ethnic contradictions, and show sympathy for the sufferings of the broad masses of the people. Poems such as Send Poems, Send Poems to Guo, Send Poems to Bingzhou, Send Poems and Send Poems to Gao describe the seriousness of foreign invasion and encourage friends to serve the battlefield. My Smell expresses his dream of not forgetting to guard the border. The poem reads: "Although Yu Sheng is a Confucian, he wants to swallow karma. When I'm not using it, I sigh that my stomach is hot. " Lying in a book during the day, I dreamed of Yutong. The theme of expressing lofty sentiments and aspirations like this was first seen in Su Shunqin's works in the Song Dynasty.
In the later period, seclusion limited his vision, and the works reflecting major political events and social problems decreased, while the works expressing the feelings of mountains and rivers increased. The essay Canglang Pavilion describes the beautiful scenery of Canglang Pavilion and expresses the life interest of escaping from reality and enjoying oneself. Poems such as Chu Qing's Visit to Canglang Pavilion, Huai Zhong Tu Tou and Xia Yi are also fresh and quiet. However, he didn't really forget the world, such as the prose "Answering a Korean Letter" and the poems "Dispelling Boredom", "The Wind and Waves in My Arms" and "The Feeling of Sleeping in Summer", which all exposed the coldness of the world and the political darkness, and expressed the grief and indignation of being wronged and ambitious.
Su Shunqin is a generous and heroic poet, who actively demands to change the reality. His poems are also passionate, which is different from Mei's poems. Ouyang Xiu commented on his poems, such as "magnificent brushwork" and "striding beyond" (Poem on June 1st). The Biography of Su Shunqin, the History of Song Dynasty, also said that he was "angry with his poems, bold in style and often amazing". For example, "If the old pine is proud of the world, the flying spring seems to avoid people" ("Yuezhou yunmen temple"); "The wind is still in the current situation, and I am afraid to blow over the Jingwei River" ("Gale"), expressing my cynical and depressed feelings with the help of natural scenery images with strange imagination, can best reflect the characteristics of his poetic style. However, most of his poems lack connotation and charm, and the language is often rough and blunt.
Su Shunqin Collection and Four Editions, with a total volume of 16, were printed in Kangxi of Qing Dynasty. Su Shunqin Collection was published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House in 198 1 year.