Su Shi, a famous scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, is the most representative figure of the bold school. A large number of poems and essays have been selected into teaching materials, making him a very few talented people who can compete with Li Bai. Su Shi is not only good at writing ci, but also a master of writing poetry. Su Shi wrote the beautiful scenery of the West Lake to a new height with "the water is bright and sunny, the mountains are cloudy and rainy". In memory of his dead wife, he set an immortal monument to his eulogy with an article "Jiangchengzi".
On elegance, Su Shi never loses any poet, but elegance is only one aspect of him and occasionally rustic. Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou because of Wutai poetry case. He reclaimed a wasteland in the east of his residence and gave himself a nickname "Dongpo", which is also the origin of "Dongpo lay man". From then on, the world called him Su Dongpo. If the wasteland is in the north, it is estimated that Su Shi became a layman on the north slope, which shows that he is more casual and does not deliberately pursue the so-called elegance.
Difficulties can temper a person's mood, and for writers, they can stimulate creative inspiration. Su Shi has a deep understanding of this. When Su Shi was an official in Huangzhou, his work was not busy, and he had a lot of time and energy to think and create, which ushered in a peak of his creative career, such as "Fu on the Red Wall" and "Niannujiao Red Cliff Nostalgia". In addition, Su Shi also wrote the most "earthy" word, that is "Ode to Pork".
Pork ode
Northern Song Dynasty: Su Shi
Clean the pot, no water, no firewood. Don't rush him when he is ripe, he will be beautiful when the heat is enough.
Huangzhou good pork, the price is as cheap as dirt. If you refuse to eat, the poor can't cook. When you get up in the morning, you make two bowls, which are full, and you can't care.
Judging from the meter and sentence pattern, this work does not belong to poetry. After all, the length of ancient poetry is basically the same, usually in five words and seven words. Even if the number of words in each sentence is different, at least it can't be too different. Therefore, most people think that Ode to Pork should belong to Song Ci, but there is no epigraph name, which is really depressing. More like a limerick written by modern people. Let's take ode to pork as a word for the time being.
As we all know, there is a super famous dish now, which is "Dongpo Meat" similar to braised pork. It can be seen from the dishes that this kind of food was invented by Su Dongpo. With the mentality of "coming is safe", Su Shi lives in Huangzhou. He should eat and drink. He also personally studied the dishes, made a unique Dongpo meat, and accidentally became a gourmet.
Ode to Pork expounds the practice of Dongpo pork and Su Shi's carefree and comfortable life. The main idea of the word is: "scrub the pot clean, put some water in it, and then make a fire, but be sure to use a small fire." Don't worry too much, just wait patiently. When the heat is enough, you can naturally taste the delicious food. The pork in Huangzhou is of good quality and the price is very touching. The rich don't like it, and the poor can afford it for free, but they can't make a good taste. I am different. You can eat two big bowls in the morning, leaving only envy for others. "
Su Shi's open-mindedness killed most people. After the ancient ministers were demoted, they basically thought about how to be reinstated, or gave up on themselves and lost hope in life. Su Shi, on the other hand, adjusted his mind in time, diverted his attention, got rid of his unsatisfactory career, looked for fun around him, made an innovative dish with extraordinary optimism, injected soul into pork and made Dongpo meat drool.
This ode to pork is unusual. On the surface, it is "soil". Every sentence is grounded, but it has warmed the world for thousands of years. It not only warms our appetite, but also warms our souls, which contains the philosophy of life. There is never a lack of beautiful people and things in the world, just a lack of eyes to find beauty. When you are unhappy, when you are worried about your work, when you encounter difficulties, you might as well learn from Su Shi's open-mindedness, and you may be surprised to find that life is not as unbearable as you think.