"Ask you about your life achievements, Huangzhou, Huizhou and Danzhou." This is how Dongpo, in his sixties, summed up his life.

Indeed, Su Shi's life was a life of being exiled and demoted. He was demoted three times, each time more tragic and tragic than the last. Among them, the most famous "Wutai Poetry Case" was caused by Su Shi being killed by an adulterer during his official career. The direct consequence was that Shenzong was given a lighter sentence and Zizhan went to Huangzhou.

Although he was demoted repeatedly, his life was not in danger. This is closely related to the Song Dynasty's tradition of "not killing literati". It is said that this is the ancestral precept passed down by Song Taizu. Emperors of Qin and Han, Emperors of Tang and Song, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties...we have listed various dynasties, but only the Song Dynasty was the most tolerant to literati.

Even though the emphasis on military force and the neglect of literature made the Northern Song Dynasty poor and weak, and suffered repeated foreign invasions such as the Liao, Xixia, and Jin Dynasties, it also created the literary and artistic characteristics of the times. Except for Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan, among the eight great masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, the other six were all born in the great era of the Song Dynasty.

The so-called literati not only need to have pen and ink in their mind, but also need to have world in their heart. Just like Su Shi, he can not only be intoxicated by the beauty of the West Lake, "Light makeup and heavy ink are always suitable", but he can also pray to the world, "I hope people will live long and travel thousands of miles to meet the beautiful women."

Literati in the Song Dynasty were often sentimental, and Dongpo did not escape this curse. His first wife, Wang Fu, was married when he was eighteen years old. Although his parents ordered him to marry, he lived happily ever after. Later, on the occasion of his wife's death 10 years ago, Su Shi sang "Jiang Chengzi's Ten Years of Life and Death" Talk to express comfort.

If it is said that "at night I have a deep dream and suddenly return home, I am dressing up outside the small window. Looking at each other without words, only a thousand tears." is a graceful poem, then most of Su Shi's masterpieces are bold and unrestrained. represent.

The most famous is Su Shi's "Niannujiao. Chibi Nostalgia". "While talking and laughing, the strong oars were wiped out in ashes" is proof of his open-minded optimism...

(It's grand enough to write Not going down)