Hello, I am Shuyi.
In recent years, a word has appeared on the Internet and is sought after by many people - slash youth. "Slash youth" comes from the English Slash, which comes from the book "Dual Career" by "New York Times" columnist Merrick Alber. It is used to refer to those people who have multiple occupations and identities in one person. It is an identity label. For example, in my WeChat circle of friends, there are people who are company employees and micro-business people and have become partners of a certain brand; there are people who are mothers and are involved in the field of writing and have become special writers for a certain platform.
"Slash Youth" is not unique to modern society. A thousand years ago, there was such a person, who can be called the "Slash God". In the field of literature, he, his father and brother are collectively known as "San Su", and he has the reputation of "a father and son, three poets, and four great writers through the ages"; in the field of Song poetry, he and Xin Qiji are collectively known as "Su Xin"; in the field of prose , he and Ouyang Xiu are collectively called "Ou Su", and there is a saying that "Owen is like the tide, and Su Wen is like the sea"; in the field of calligraphy, he, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu, and Cai Xiang are collectively called the "Four Song Schools"; in the field of painting, he became the "Four Schools of Song Dynasty"; Representative of the Huzhou Bamboo Sect.
In addition, he is also a generation of wise teachers, with many disciples under his disciples; he is not afraid of power and gives advice; he lives in a secluded place, but becomes a gourmet... He is Tang One of the Eight Great Masters of the Song Dynasty and a national idol - Su Shi.
Mr. Lin Yutang said this in "The Biography of Su Dongpo":
Su Shi, who has become a national idol, never loses his temper and can always bring positive energy to people, even in prison. He also interprets the realm of life to the extreme.
Su Shi was from Meishan, Sichuan. There, he rode a small boat and admired lotus flowers in May and June. This peaceful and joyful city was called a livable place by literati. Moreover, Meizhou people were good at speaking. , like to argue. Perhaps it was this kind of growing environment that made Su Shi full of sentiments and his thoughts stirred up in the literary world.
Under the positive education of his parents, Su Shi left Meizhou where he had been living in his weak years, and went to Beijing with his younger brother Su Zhe to take the exam. Due to the appreciation and admiration of the examiner Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi passed the Jinshi examination with a good score of second place, and began his career as an official.
Su Shi was outspoken in admonishing and praying for the people, but was denounced by Song Shenzong and ordered to be the prefect of Hangzhou, the "heaven on earth", and was favored by the people. After building a dam and implementing a waterproofing project at the West Lake in Hangzhou, Su Shi wrote a famous poem: "The clear water is beautiful when the water shines brightly, and the mountains are also strange when they are empty and rainy. If you want to compare the West Lake to the West, it is always appropriate to put on light makeup and heavy makeup."
Soon after enjoying the freedom and ease of a local official, he became a prisoner of the "Wutai Poetry Case".
Perhaps Su Shi at that time did not know the bad luck that "writing poems and complaining" brought to him. Some people with ulterior motives used his poems to make a fuss, labeling him as satirizing Wang Anshi's reform, despising the emperor, and disrupting the government. person. As a result, Su Shi was arrested and forced to Wutai. God favored this talented man. At the same time, the Song Dynasty system protected the literati from death in Wutai. After several officials wrote letters to advise him, Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou, a remote place with high mountains and high mountains.
At the age of forty-four, he had passed his forties. When he first arrived in Huangzhou, Su Shi stayed in the small temple in Dinghuiyuan, waiting for his family members on the way.
The huge psychological gap made him sing the sentence "I picked up all the cold branches and refused to live on them, the lonely sandbank is cold". However, Su Shi had an "angel of optimism" hidden in his heart. With the help of his friends, he moved to Lingaoting and received a piece of highland as a gift. Su Shi named it Su Dongpo, from which Dongpo layman came.
As deputy envoy of regiment training, supporting his family, and his income was precarious, Su Dongpo could only live within his means. He took out 4,500 yuan every month, divided it into thirty strings, hung it on the roof beam, and took down one string every morning. The skewers are used as the day’s expenses, and any unused items are saved.
At the same time, the life of a farmer began. This wasteland was covered with thorns and rubble. Su Dongpo burned the weeds, and a hidden well appeared on the wasteland, bringing light to the irrigation problem of the fields. Abandoning his past aesthetic feelings, Su Dongpo bought a cow, a hoe, and a sickle just to survive. After learning the art of farming, Su Dongpo ushered in the golden season of wheat ears. He loves this field, working at sunrise and resting at sunset.
Su Dongpo once said to his younger brother: "I can accompany the Jade Emperor, and I can accompany the beggars of Beitian Courtyard. I see that there is no bad person in the world." In Huangzhou, he truly regarded himself as a farmer and worked with The locals integrated into one body and became "friends of the common people", regardless of their own image as a scholar, because he believed that only in this way could he save himself from prison.
While farming and making friends, Su Dongpo read a large number of Buddhist scriptures and integrated Confucianism with Buddhist scriptures, which brought his works to a big level and became the peak period of his literary creation. "Chibi Fu", "Ding Fengbo", "Xijiang Moon·Mid-Autumn Festival and Ziyou" all came from this time.
Su Dongpo and his friends were traveling on Red Cliff, leaving behind the worldly officialdom and seeing only the cool breeze and the bright moon. Although he feels that "a mayfly is sent to heaven and earth, a drop in the vast sea", he evokes the detachment of "between heaven and earth, everything has its own owner, and if it is not mine, I will not take away even a single cent."
A sudden heavy rain fell from the sky, and passers-by rushed to take shelter. Only Su Dongpo did not dodge at all, but sang out "Looking back to the desolate place, when I return, there will be no wind, rain, or sunshine."
In "Ode to Pork" Su Dongpo wrote: "The good pork in Huangzhou is as expensive as dirt. The nobles refuse to eat it, and the poor don't know how to cook it." Su Dongpo transformed cheap meat into a new delicacy and became a For gourmets, Dongpo Pork comes from this.
Huangzhou is Su Dongpo’s second hometown. This vast land collided with great ideas, and Su Dongpo transformed it into a legend.
Su Dongpo, in his downfall, realized that there is joy in the world. He traveled freely between heaven and earth, looking for the joy of life among poverty and lowliness, and reached another realm of life.
At the age of fifty-eight, almost in his prime, after returning all the way from Huangzhou to Bianjing to serve as an official for several years, Su Dongpo was once again involved in the political whirlpool and was demoted to Huizhou. This time, it was the court's official sentence to him: You go, you are no longer needed.
From the "First Secretary of the Empire" to the smog-infested land of Lingnan, Su Dongpo's life was deplorable. Under repeated heavy blows, Su Dongpo was still Su Dongpo. He did not fall. He understood the true meaning of fate again.
When he arrived in Huizhou, he began to care about local improvement and innovation. There were no fixed military camps there, and the garrison interfered with people's lives. He cooperated with the local county magistrate to build 300 camps. In order to build "Su Causeway" and "Liuru Pavilion", he donated
rhino belt, rewarded gold, and funded the construction of East New Bridge and West New Bridge.
He personally participated in the construction and worked with the people. When the project was completed, he celebrated with the people and drank freely for three days. He traveled to Fenghu Lake at night, climbed to the Hejiang Tower, and embraced the land that was with him.
The "Floating Horse" he invented while farming in Huangzhou was brought to Huizhou to solve the problem of farmers having to bend down to plant rice.
While managing people's livelihood, he did not ignore the beauty of life. He was interested in many new things. Huizhou is a subtropical area. Sugar cane, bananas, lychees, etc. are all refreshing to Su Shi. He is still the same person, tasting wine, writing poems, and sitting in meditation. "Eating three hundred lychees a day, and never giving up to grow up to be a Lingnan native" are the small blessings of his life.
Su Dongpo was out of time. In his eyes, there was no grass anywhere in the world, and life was wonderful and colorful. He interpreted the vitality to the extreme and demonstrated the nobility of the soul.
At the age of sixty-one, in his sixtieth year, politics showed ruthlessness. Su Dongpo's fate ushered in a cold winter, and he was demoted from Huizhou to Danzhou.
When Su Dongpo first arrived in Hainan, he had no books to read, so he and his second son Su Guo copied books by hand. Su Shi wrote letters to friends, telling interesting things about his daily life. At the end of the letters, he often added the word "ha ha" in more than 40 places. It can be seen that he naturally expressed his complacency in life without concealment.
In the Zaijiu Hall, Su Dongpo met friends from all over the world, gathered to drink and talk. In his spare time, he also taught teachings to various groups of students, spread the culture of the Central Plains, and opened the door to the local style of study. Today, a thousand years later, stories about Su Dongpo teaching people to read and recite poems to encourage learning are still circulating in the Danzhou area. The first Jinshi and the first Juren in Hainan were both disciples of Zaijiu Hall.
In Danzhou, Su Dongpo promoted culture and education, and the academic style in Hainan flourished. Although the Dongpo Academy where Zaijiu Hall is located has experienced the erosion of 900 years of history, it still retains the admiration and memory of Su Dongpo.
It took three years for Su Dongpo to be remembered by the people of Danzhou; it took a thousand years for the people of Danzhou to be grateful to Su Dongpo.
In the third year after arriving in Danzhou, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty issued a general amnesty to the world and summoned Su Dongpo back to Beijing. After crossing the south and returning to the north, he summarized his life on the way: "Ask you about your life achievements, Huangzhou, Huizhou and Danzhou."
At this time, Su Dongpo could not withstand the ruthless baptism of fate. Two months later, on his sick bed, this literary giant who lived a simple life, was friends with the people, and was optimistic and open-minded died.
Just like what he said in his poem, although he experienced nine deaths, he never regretted it.
Mr. Lin Yutang said in "The Biography of Su Dongpo":
Su Dongpo, a vigorous and energetic person, reminds people all the time that this place of peace is my hometown. . With his most sincere love for life, he explained that in times of difficulty, the nobility of the soul is the highest state of life.
Let us travel together in the world of words.