Su Shi (Jan. 8, 137-Aug. 24, 111) was known as "Dongpo Jushi", with the word Zizhan and Zhongzhong, and the world called him "Su Dongpo". Han nationality, Meizhou (now Meishan, Sichuan, Meishan City in the Northern Song Dynasty) is a native of Luancheng. Famous litterateur, painter, poet, gourmet in Northern Song Dynasty, one of the eight great poets in Tang and Song Dynasties, and a representative of the uninhibited poets. His poetry, ci, fu and prose are all highly successful, and he is good at calligraphy and painting. He is a rare all-rounder in the history of China literature and art, and is also recognized as one of the most outstanding literary and artistic attainments in China's thousands of years of history.
once, when Su Shi was taught to read the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Su Mu read the Biography of Fan Pang. Su Mu was deeply moved by the noble spirit of Fan Pang's mother and son who were not afraid of violence and died for justice. She could not help but put down the book and sighed. The young Su Shi was also deeply moved. He asked his mother: "If I grow up, like Fan Pang, I will give up my life. Will my mother allow me?" Su Mu replied in awe: "If you can learn from Fan Pang, can't I be like Fan Pang's mother?"
Su Shi grew up under his mother's education. By the time he was twenty, he was already a well-versed scholar. He wrote articles and wrote thousands of words effortlessly. In 157, he was admitted to the Jinshi examination, worked as a local official for many years, and also served as a bachelor of Hanlin in the imperial court. However, because of his integrity and lack of power, his career is bumpy.
Su Dongpo's genius is well known all over the world, and even his political opponents admire him very much. However, the reason for Su Dongpo's genius is that his talented superman is the mainstream view, and not many people understand that his genius is also inseparable from diligence and hard work.
He copied Hanshu three times, which shows his diligence. When he was demoted to Huangzhou at the age of forty-seven, his life was very difficult. In addition to suffering a great mental shock, he had to go to Dongpo to reclaim land and maintain the life of dozens of people. After work, I still insist on writing and academic research. During this time, he began to copy Hanshu by hand for the third time. Handwritten Hanshu, at first he took three words as the title (that is, he only copied three words when describing an event in the book, and then memorized it by heart). Later, he took two words as the title, and this time he only took one word as the title to memorize the relevant contents of Hanshu.
His friend Zhu Zai went up to visit him, randomly selected a volume of Hanshu, and randomly selected a word from it. Su Dongpo immediately recited a long paragraph of several hundred words without any mistakes.
He often recites Du Mu's Fu of A Fang Guan. After a long time, even the veterans who served him can understand the main idea of Du Mu's Fu.
It can be seen that Su Dongpo is diligent.
This quality of Su Shi is worth learning.