Su is a famous writer, poet and translator in China, and also a monk who converted to Buddhism.
His life is full of legends, and his deeds are still widely circulated today.
This monk, who was called "a literary genius in China's modern history" by Japanese scholars, ended up "overeating and dying".
This caused a heated discussion at that time. Some people regret it, others ridicule it, while his friend Chen Duxiu has a deeper view.
1On September 28th, 884, Su was born in Japan. His father is Su Jiesheng, a Guangdong tea merchant, and his mother is a Japanese woman named He Hexian.
Sue spent almost all her childhood in Japan and was taken back to China by her father when she was 6 years old.
After returning to China, he was arranged by his father to study in a school, and he began to accept China culture and became interested in it.
/kloc-When he was 0/3 years old, his father took him to Shanghai again, and Sue began to learn English in a missionary school for Spanish priests.
As a result, Su mastered three languages: Chinese, English and Japanese, and was exposed to many cultures in Asia and Europe, which not only broadened her horizons, but also broadened her mind.
Later, he returned to Japan, studied in Yokohama Datong School and Waseda University, received a better education and accumulated a lot of knowledge. He is a real genius.
He is proficient in many languages and characters, especially in ancient China literature. He is not only familiar with all kinds of classic works, but also brilliant in writing poems. He also published poems in New Youth, which caused a great sensation at that time.
In addition to his literary attainments, Su is also an excellent painter. He is very good at Chinese painting. His paintings are fresh and elegant, quiet and elegant, with far-reaching artistic conception, giving people a feeling of loneliness, emptiness and tranquility.
He also skillfully combined traditional Chinese painting with western painting to learn from each other's strong points and was praised by many famous painters.
If you can only recite poems and paint, it is naturally difficult to bear the name of "literary wizard" in the Soviet Union.
You must have heard of Hugo, a great writer, but do you know who wrote the first translation of Hugo's novels in China?
Yes, that's Sue.
After reading Hugo's Les Miserables, he was shocked, only to find that China didn't have a translation of the novel at all, so he immediately began to translate it.
At that time, his translation of Les Miserables was serialized in the National Daily, which was warmly welcomed, and Hugo's popularity in China gradually increased.
Of course, what he likes and is good at is translating English poems. He once translated Byron's poems in five-character style, which not only perfectly reflected the artistic conception of the original poem, but also had harmonious rhythm and neat meter, and was praised by writers such as Lu Xun.
Not only that, he also translated Chinese classics such as Li Sao, The Book of Songs and Nineteen Ancient Poems, as well as excellent works by Li Bai and Du Fu into English, showing the charm of China traditional literature to foreign friends.
However, as a monk, Su was most exposed to Buddhist culture. When he found that there were no Sanskrit monographs in China, he began to study Sanskrit hard, and finally compiled the Sanskrit Canon, the first Sanskrit book in China.
The above introduction is only a part of his many achievements, but I think these are enough to make him bear the name of "gifted scholar" and "strange monk"
As we all know, geniuses are always different, and they always have some "little hobbies" different from ordinary people.
Sue is no exception. He loves to eat, not only "loves to eat" but also "gluttonous".
According to records, Sue once visited the home of his friend Ibasha. Knowing that he loves to eat, his friends specially prepared rich food for him.
When eating, Sue's eyes lit up when she saw so many delicious foods. It's not enough to eat a bowl of fried noodles and two plates of shrimp. She took more than a dozen spring rolls and swallowed them three times and five times.
It seems that I still have no satisfaction after dinner, and I have eaten a lot of sweets and snacks in succession. Frightened, Isabella thought she was cash-strapped and hungry for several days.
On another occasion, Sue was helping people write banners. In order to thank him, the host invited him to have dinner together. In order to express his gratitude, he specially prepared a plate of abalone.
Sue wolfed down a plate of abalone, which was not enough, but he was embarrassed to ask for more. After leaving his host's house, he immediately ran to the restaurant and ordered three plates of abalone until he couldn't swallow it.
Besides eating without restraint, he also likes to drink ice and fire.
When he was studying in Japan, he went to the ice shop to drink ice water whenever he was free, and he drank five or six kilograms of ice water a day.
Sashimi, a traditional Japanese food, is hard to swallow for China people who are used to cooked food.
Although Sue has only lived in Japan for a few years, she likes sashimi very much. With vinegar and sugar, he can eat three or four Jin at most.
It's ice water and sashimi, and it's inevitable that you have a stomachache. But Sue is also a "strange person". No matter how upset his stomach is after eating, as long as he is well, he will begin to overeat immediately.
Once, he told a friend that he could eat sixty steamed buns at a meal. My friend didn't believe me, so Sue made a bet with him.
In order to win the bet, Su Zhen brought sixty steamed stuffed buns and ate more than fifty in a row. His friends were afraid of his bad stomach and stopped him again and again.
Afterwards, he really ate his stomach and lay in bed for several days at once, scaring his friends out of joking with him.
Sue still doesn't care about herself. After fitness, he continued to overeat.
They all say that "the disease comes from the mouth." Soon after overeating, Sue was diagnosed with severe gastrointestinal problems.
The doctor told him to eat only light porridge and rice every day, not to overeat and not to eat sweets.
Sue ignored the doctor's advice. If he can't eat delicious food, he can't stand it. If he can't eat sugar, he will kill him directly.
You know, Sue likes sugar best. It is said that he can eat 30 packets of crisp candy a day, so he got the nickname "Sugar Monk".
Therefore, as long as he feels better, the first thing he does is to buy all kinds of sweets. As a result, his illness naturally became more and more serious. Finally, no matter how good the medicine is, it can't relieve his gastrointestinal diseases.
19 18 years, Sue was terminally ill and died soon at the age of 35.
After the news of Su's death came out, many people felt sorry for it, thinking that Su died at a young age because he was too greedy.
Among many similar voices, one person has a completely different view, and he is Chen Duxiu.
"He saw the world was dirty and his world-weary heart was warm, but he couldn't find another way out, so he ate and drank at random in order to die quickly." Chen Duxiu had speculated that Sue died at his hands.
Why did Chen Duxiu say that? I think the answer lies in Sue's life.
Next, let's read Sue's life carefully.
As mentioned earlier, Sue's father is a tea merchant and her mother is Japanese.
Based on these two sentences, Sue's growing environment seems good. If so, he probably won't choose to become a monk.
Su Jiesheng, Su's father, established a family in Guangdong before going to Japan to start a business, but his only son died young.
In order to continue the incense, after Su Jiesheng came to Japan, he secretly married a Japanese woman He Hexian as his concubine.
This Hehexian has a beautiful sister Hehuoruo, and Su Jiesheng has a crush on Hehuoruo's appearance, and they actually got married, which leads to Su.
And if Hehe secretly left soon after giving birth to Sue, Sue has been raised by Hehe Xian.
Because Su Jiesheng has a wife and children in Guangdong, and his elders are unwilling to accept He Hexian and Su, he lives alone with his adoptive mother in Japan.
When Sue was 6 years old, Sue's family saw that there was really no man, so she asked Su Jie to take him home, but she still refused to accept He Hexian.
In this way, Sue came to Guangdong alone and lived with his wives and concubines.
Although he is the only male in the Su family, Su Jiesheng's wife and relatives still regard him as an "illegitimate child" and don't give him a good look at all.
Sue was wronged in the Su family. He wanted to ask his father for help, but Su Jiesheng turned a blind eye to it.
This made him disheartened and made other people in the family insult and bully him more unscrupulously.
Sue was thrown into the cold woodshed when she was 12 years old with a high fever. After a narrow escape, he couldn't stand the life of the Su family any longer and fled here alone.
On the road of wandering, he met a master. Through his enlightenment, he became a monk and converted to Buddhism.
But at that time, he was still a child and often made trouble in the temple. Over time, he was kicked out.
He refused to go home, so his kind aunt took him in. Although life at my aunt's house is very comfortable, Sue can't adapt to this kind of life because she depends on others. She decided to go back to Japan to look for her mother.
1898, Sue and his cousin set foot on a passenger ship bound for Japan.
After coming to Japan, he successfully found his mother, Hexian, and began to study in Datong School in Yokohama, Japan.
Living with her mother made Sue feel the long-lost affection and security, so she settled down here with peace of mind.
However, the calm days did not last long, and his handsome appearance soon attracted the attention of a girl in the village.
Women often write to him, and Su He gradually fell in love with this woman, so she secretly fell in love with her wife.
However, their love was discovered. Japanese society was still very conservative at that time. It is undoubtedly an insult for a woman to secretly fall in love with a man.
After the romance was exposed, the woman was ashamed and threw herself into the river.
Sue couldn't accept the bad news and decided to leave the complicated world of mortals and return to Buddhism. Soon after, he bid farewell to his mother, returned to China again, and entered Fusaiji, Baiyun Mountain.
Probably because he saw through the world of mortals, Su went in and out of fireworks places many times during the Qing Dynasty and had frequent contacts with prostitutes. Soon he was kicked out of the temple.
So he went back to Japan to continue his studies. This time, I made friends with Chen Duxiu, Lu Xun and others and devoted myself to the revolutionary cause.
But the revolution is not easy. At that time, the political situation was complicated and tense. After the revolutionary cause was hit, Sue chose to become a monk again.
Sue's life seems to be becoming a monk and secularizing again and again, frustrated and hit again and again. In such an environment, how can he not be disappointed and world-weary?
Although Sue lived only 35 years old, his life always seemed to be erratic and idle.
However, in the past 35 years, he left behind countless poems, novels, essays, translated works and paintings. After translation, it has spread to many countries and has a certain reputation in the world.
Whether he died of overeating or tired of the world, Su's death is undoubtedly a great regret in the literary world. His literary talent and legendary life also doomed him to be remembered by the literary world and the world forever.