Su Shi's life is quite legendary. Let's say it step by step When Su Shi was 20 years old, he took the imperial examination with his younger brother. He won the attention of Ouyang Xiu, the examiner, with an article on loyalty to punishment, and won the second place (which should have been the first place) in the Jinshi examination, which proved his extraordinary youth and brilliant literary talent, and also laid the groundwork for his tortuous political career in the future.
Known in history? Wang Anshi's reform? Su Shi had a smooth life before and was famous in Kyoto. He is smart and upright, and he likes studying food very much. Dongpo meat? He likes to drink tea and make friends with literati. If he talks less about politics at this time and feels at ease to be an upright talented person and beautiful woman, then maybe his life will be smoother, but maybe his life will be less legendary.
His character is honest, frank is straightforward and will not hide his thoughts. Wang Anshi was the prime minister at that time, and Su Shi dared to oppose his political reform activities, which showed that he was not afraid of powerful people and insisted on his own opinions.
Wang Anshi boldly asked for political reform, not only because he got permission from Song Shenzong, but also because there were already many people who supported the New Deal in the imperial court at that time. Because Su Dongpo opposed the political reform activities, he stood on the opposite side of some supporters of the New Deal, and his isolation became a fact. At this time, he was forced to propose to leave the capital and take up a diplomatic post. Song Shenzong also has a love for talents. After weighing several times, he was transferred to Hangzhou as a judge, and then he took charge of Xuzhou and Mizhou.
It is worth mentioning that during Xuzhou, the Yellow River burst its banks and the people were trapped. Su Shi quickly invited the imperial guards, forcibly guarded the camp, called on them to fight the flood with the people, and also wrote to the court to strengthen the bank protection to prevent the flood from happening again. This shows that he is a man of insight who cares about the country and the people, and an enlightened man who can turn the tide.
None of this is the point. The biggest turning point in his life was the Wutai Poetry Case. At this time, he was 43 years old. It can be said that he is in the darkest time of his life. Almost beheaded, constantly demoted, as he laughed at himself in the article "The Portrait of Jinshan"? Ask your occupation, Huangzhou Huizhou Danzhou? Similarly, he was degraded again and again, farther and farther away. As a man who has high aspirations since childhood and wants to make contributions to the country, this is basically the end of his political career and the burial place of Su Shi's life ideal.
Unexpectedly, Su Shi is not as pessimistic or even optimistic as people think. Many of his famous sentences were written during his demotion, such as Ding Fengbo? Don't listen to the beating of leaves in the forest? Who's scared? A misty rain in my life? The feeling of heroic and free and easy arises spontaneously.
Demote Huizhou, don't forget to enjoy Lingnan litchi, and write down "Huizhou is a must". Write it down? 300 lychees a day, why don't you grow up to be a Lingnan person? Classic sentence, people in the remote Lingnan area degraded in the north are not acclimatized and can't eat. For example, after Bai Juyi arrived in Jiangxi, he said in the article Pipa Xing. Jiujiang is so far away that I haven't heard music, neither strings nor bamboo sounds for a whole year. My residence is near the town by the river, low and humid, and the house is surrounded by bitter reeds and yellow rushes. What can you hear here in the morning and evening? ? The cuckoo's bleeding cry, the ape's sobbing. ?
Su Shi wants to live in Lingnan for a long time. There are several literati in history who can match this kind of broadmindedness and humor, and I'm afraid there are very few. Undoubtedly, Su Shi's romanticism and optimism are indispensable qualities in his legendary life.
Roman Roland has a classic saying in the book The Biography of Michelangelo? There is only one true heroism in the world, and that is to love life after recognizing the truth of life. ? From this perspective, Su Shi is a real warrior and a real hero.