In Song Dynasty, the cultural customs of Mid-Autumn Festival have been greatly developed and matured, and many scholars have created many excellent works about Mid-Autumn Festival. To describe the moon in Mid-Autumn Festival, Su Shi is the only one.
The most famous is the article "Water Tune Song Tou":
When did the moon begin to appear? I take my glass from a distance. I don't know about palaces in the sky. What year is tonight? I'm willing to ride the wind to the sky, I'm afraid I can't stand the cold for nine days in a pavilion of fine jade. Dance and enjoy the shadow of the moon, which is in the world. The moon turned into a scarlet pavilion, hanging low on the carved window, shining on the sleepy self. The moon should not have any resentment against people. Why is it round when people are gone? People are sad and happy, and they are separated and reunited. The moon has yin and yang, and there are gains and losses. Nothing is perfect, even in the past. I hope people will live for a long time and have a good scenery thousands of miles away.
In front of this word, there is Su Shi's preface: Chen Bing Mid-Autumn Festival, happily drinking, drunk writing this article, pregnant with children. It is clear that it is to write about the Mid-Autumn Moon to relax.
In the year of Chen Bingnian, namely 1076, Su Dongpo was appointed as the year of Mizhou, drinking and enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. From the ups and downs of the moon, he thought of human joys and sorrows, and that he had never been reunited with his younger brother Su Zhe for seven years. He was very emotional and wrote this masterpiece with a high artistic conception.
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Su Dongpo is an emotional, handsome and open-minded person, and it is common to look at the moon. Especially in the Mid-Autumn Festival, I often express my feelings to the moon, and write many Mid-Autumn Festival poems, which reflect the author's meticulous observation of the scenery, meticulous observation of life, simple feelings and lofty realm. In addition to the above "water tune", there are the following songs:
Mid-Autumn Moon in Yangguan District
The twilight clouds are cold, and the silver-haired people silently turn to the tracts.
If you don't meet a good night in this life, where will you see the bright moon next year?
This song is 1077, the Mid-Autumn Festival in the second year after Su Shi finished writing "Water Tune Songs". He got together with his younger brother Su Zhe and wrote this work in Xuzhou. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, the two brothers met briefly, just reunited and faced parting, and their feelings of melancholy were obvious. Su Zhe is also a great writer, and naturally he feels it. He wrote a poem entitled "Mink Head Xuzhou Mid-Autumn Festival":
It's been too long since we broke up. It's the seventh Mid-Autumn Festival. Last year in the East, I looked at the moon and was depressed. Unexpectedly, on the mountain of Pancheng, an ancient Bianhe River drifted. Someone incited the fun, and the swan goose in the swan goose.
The guests in the living room are radiant. The moon is ruthless and unwilling to stay heavy. There are drinkers tonight, and they will live on the boat tomorrow night. It's sad to be apart. I'm afraid Rainbow will, so I don't go home, so I have to go upstairs.
Although the two brothers are brothers, they have no choice but to come together and hate each other. Officialdom ups and downs, involuntarily, can drink together tonight, I don't know where to drift tomorrow night.
Niannujiao Mid-Autumn Festival
Looking far from the sky, you can see the clear sky in Wan Li without a cloud. Sweet-scented osmanthus flies, where the sun shines and the air is crisp in autumn. Yuyu Qionglou, coming and going from Luan, people are in Liangguo. Mountains and rivers are picturesque, and smoke trees are vivid.
I clap my hands and sing wildly, till, raising my cup, I asked the bright moon, and become a guest. Dancing and wandering in the wind, I don't know what night it is I want to return by wind, so I don't need to ride Peng Yi. In the Crystal Palace, the flute was blown off with a loud sound.
This word was written in 1082 Mid-Autumn Festival. At that time, Su Shi was ostracized and suppressed because of Wutai Poetry Case, and was demoted as a leisure minister in Yong Lian, serving in Huangzhou. He is depressed and depressed, not like before.
Because of his low salary, in order to make a living, he cultivated land on the hillside in the east of the city and got the name of "Dongpo lay man". Famous works such as Fu on the Red Wall, Nian Nu Jiao and Nostalgia on Red Cliff were all created by Su Shi during his stay in Huangzhou. Looking back on the past, I feel that the world has changed, life is like a dream, I was born early, and I can't do any more business. What a pity!
This "Niannujiao Mid-Autumn Festival" is based on Li Bai's "Poem of Drinking the Moon Alone": Until, I raised my cup and asked the moon, which brought me my shadow and let the three of us. Su Shi at this time, like Li Bai at that time, was lonely and disheartened. Although it is beautiful, it is already "I don't know what night it will be." I really want to go with the wind and go straight to the moon palace. Even playing the flute is much more leisurely than now.
Nange Jpua Heng Mid-Autumn Festival
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, there was a rustle in the temple. Turn the world into dust and sand. Laugh at the ebb and flow of the tide and end your career.
The alchemist has three mountains and the fisherman has a leaf. If I knew my life, I would have two teeth. Good companion for whale riding, Fu Xiongkua.
This word does not indicate the writing time, but judging from the wording and expression of the article, it should be written by Su Shi in his later years. At this time, Su Shi experienced ups and downs and looked down on everything. Man is just a grain of sand. If I had known that life was so hard, I might as well ride a whale once a month like Li Bai.