Winter clouds
The essay Night Tour in Chengtian Temple is the author's life experience and feelings when he was demoted to Huangzhou for six years (1083). Only 84 words create a quiet artistic realm, full of the author's subtle and complicated psychological state. At that time, the author was demoted here because of the literary inquisition. Although he is Ying Yong's assistant, he lives a frustrated and idle life like a sinner. After suffering from relegation, he calmed his restless soul in the poor and lonely Huangzhou, and tried to repair his injured soul with a indifferent life in the political whirlpool.
Su Shi was full of ambition in the first half of his life, determined to help the people with full blood. Politically full of charm, outspoken advice, unwilling to vulgar dignitaries as their agents. Because of his frankness, his career has been ups and downs, and his life has been bumpy, and he has been relegated repeatedly. Two months before his death, he made a helpless summary of his later life: "My heart is like a tree in the ashes, and my body is like a ship that is not tied. Ask your occupation, Huangzhou, Huizhou, Danzhou. " "The Portrait of Jinshan" is an image metaphor of a life attitude that has nothing to do with oneself and conforms to the current situation, meaning to drift with the tide in the bitter sea of life and not care at all. The last two sentences are inevitably sad. As the ancients said, "A flow of words is the way to take disaster." He was banished to Huangzhou, Hubei, Huizhou, Guangdong, Danzhou, Hainan, and finally to the ends of the earth, because he was opinionated and didn't know how to cater to power. The author says this is the achievement of his life. His broad-minded feelings of talking and laughing in do or die, positive and optimistic spirit after suffering, and willful and carefree temperament were really established after he relegated Huangzhou.
The author was demoted to Huangzhou because of Wutai poetry case, and the Buddhist and Taoist thoughts at this time played an important role in purifying him. He often goes to the temple to burn incense and sit still. He looks at himself. He wants to get rid of all selfish thoughts and dust and become different. Although he was still inspired by Confucian loyalty, he participated in many Buddhist and Taoist beliefs. Confucianism outside and Buddhism inside can avoid adversity. Join the WTO with Confucianism, excel in Buddhism and Taoism, and do the cause of joining the WTO with the attitude of being born. No matter how poor you are, you can keep your personality independence and freedom of thought. He treated political thoughts and life thoughts differently and unified them in the form of "Buddhism inside and Confucianism outside". The Confucian spirit of being a scholar and the illusory consciousness of Buddhism and Taoism to solve the suffering of life complement each other, which leads to his outlook on life not developing into disgust and sorrow for society and life. He knows the art of life, and he loves life. Therefore, during his relegation to Huangzhou, he did not indulge in the abyss of feelings, but he was still interested in writing and touched the spring. The fresh and meaningful essay "Night Tour in Chengtian Temple" can illustrate this point.
The nominally idle position of Deputy Special Envoy Ying Yong made him feel depressed. Visiting the temple on a moonlit night is a good opportunity for him to relieve his depression and find spiritual sustenance in the quiet natural beauty.
In late autumn and early winter, there was already a chill, and after another day in a boring life, the author "undressed and wanted to sleep" and entered a dreamlike life. At this time, "moonlight entered the house", but moonlight quietly came to comfort the frustrated poet. This "bright line at the foot of my bed" seems to understand the loneliness of this "moved poet" and should take the initiative to accompany him. This moonlight activated the author's feelings, and he was so happy that he couldn't sleep anymore, so he "set off happily." But who can accompany me to enjoy the moon and "have fun"? Lonely to find a partner, the moon thought with one heart, "I went to Chengtian Temple to find Zhang Huaimin". Zhang Huaimin, the author's good friend, was demoted to Huangzhou at that time, which can be described as "far apart, far apart", but "I felt the harmonious heartbeat of the sacred unicorn". "I haven't slept with the people." Invite friends to enjoy the moon, stroll in the lounge, and come at will in a few words. The bright moonlight in the yard is as clear and transparent as a pool of clear water; The reflection of bamboo and cypress is beautiful and elegant, just like the "crossing of algae and grass" in the water. With simple pen and ink, the author touched a wonderful realm of ethereal, clear, flickering and flickering. Fresh and natural, full of emotions.
Literary works all contain the author's thoughts and feelings. "What night without a month? Where is there no bamboo and cypress? . But few idle people are like my ears. " It is meaningful and reveals the main idea. Only the degraded author and Zhang Huaimin can enjoy the beautiful scenery in the moonlight. The author laments that no one enjoys the moon, implying the fame and fortune of the world. Think of the sadness of his relegation, the feeling of life, the leisure of walking, the joy of enjoying the moon and so on. All kinds of unspeakable feelings and complicated and subtle feelings are in it.
This essay, with its unique ingenuity, outlines a beautiful moonlit picture; Free and unrestrained, expressing the spirit of flowing water. In the cold moonlight scene, he naturally blended into his open-minded attitude towards life after suffering, which is the sublimation of his heart and character full of life interest. It is refreshing to read and influenced by beauty.