Did Su Shi, the great writer who was exiled to Hainan, ever despair?

Su Shi, courtesy name Dongpo, was one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties. He was naturally talented and graceful. However, looking at Su Shi’s experience, it is not difficult to find that this is a man who has experienced ups and downs. However, after the rain and wind, Su Shi could still keep an innocent heart. Compared with his outstanding literary talent, such a broad mind made Su Shi an immortal monument.

Young and extraordinary, fortunately Bole

Having an excellent ancestor means that Su Shi has a relatively rich family fortune and relatively excellent genes. However, for more than three hundred years, the Su family has There were many prodigal sons, such as his father Su Xun, who was still wandering around before he was twenty-seven. Fortunately, Su Xun regretted his failure in the provincial examination and started to work hard. Otherwise, under the leadership of this crooked parent, Su Xun Next, there is a high probability that Su Shi will become a "lower beam" with "the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked". Zhongyong in Zhongyong. After studying hard for many years, the young man Su Shi walked out of the remote ravine in the Xishu area and climbed over the mountains and rivers. Passing through the crowds of people, I walked into the palace that scholars dream of.

The examiner at that time was Ouyang Xiu, the leader of the literary world in the Northern Song Dynasty at that time; and the written examiner was Mei Yaochen, a veteran in the poetry world. Su Shi met Bole when he first showed his talent. He soared like a roc up to 90,000 miles, and when the European University examiner met his favorite candidate, he naturally praised him without hesitation. Under his praise, Classmate Su suddenly became famous and even became a minor figure in the capital. To the world, Su Shi seemed to be just a talented and lucky young man.

However, this young man's state of mind was different. His father Su Xun believed in Taoism and even invited a Taoist priest to teach his two sons to study. Su Shi was deeply influenced by this man named Zhang throughout his life. The influence of the simple Taoist priest paved the way for him to choose to live in seclusion and focus on the mountains and rivers when he was depressed.

Leaving Beijing to bury his father, it will be difficult to return to Beijing

In the sixth year of Jiayou's reign, Su took the high school entrance examination, which was the civil service examination in the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. If he passed, he could become an official. He successfully passed the third class examination and became Comrade Su from classmate Su. He went to the local area for training. Four years later, his local experience ended and he returned to the central government from the local area. He was appointed to the Wengu Academy. However, he returned to Beijing to work Within a year, his father died of a serious illness. Su Shi and Su Che had to carry the coffin back to their hometown, and Su Shi embarked on the road to Xishu. However, this time there was no living father accompanying him.

In Xishu, Comrade Su, a Beijing official, cried and became little friend Su. Without his father Su Xun's example and earnest teachings, where would Su Shi be today? Although his father was dead, his persistence in his official career and his determination not to give up even if his efforts were fruitless were deeply engraved in Su Shi's heart. Three years later, Comrade Su once again embarked on the road back to Beijing, but He did not expect that in the past three years, earth-shaking changes had taken place in the capital. His former colleagues and friends, and even his admirer Ouyang Xiu, were all forced to leave the center of power because of political disagreements with Wang Anshi. The prosperous city of Tokyo had long been Things have changed and people have changed. Even if I return, it will be difficult to find the land that I once walked on when I was young and graceful.

In Tokyo, Prime Minister Wang Dacheng, who wrote "Injury to Zhongyong", and Comrade Su, who almost became Zhongyong, had one struggle after another. With Su Shi's power, there was no way he could compete with Wang Anshi, who had been immersed in officialdom for many years. In the autumn of the seventh year of Xining, Su Shi could not bear the squeeze from the official circles in the capital, so he asked himself to leave the capital and be transferred to Mizhou. Once you leave, it will be difficult to return.

The poetry scandal broke out

Su Shi arrived in Mizhou and began to show his Buddhist mentality of lying down wherever he fell. Two years later, Su Shi was Transferred to Xuzhou, he was very busy in Xuzhou. He had to prevent floods and defend the city wall. He took out the spirit of Dayu and built a thatched hut on the city wall. If that small thatched hut could be left, maybe today, we can I visited the former residence of Su Dongpo on a wall. With his strong professional ability, Su Shi not only controlled the floods, but also built bank protections to prevent floods from coming again. After the flood control was completed, Comrade Su once again started the mode of sightseeing and even visited the mountains and rivers. Going to Huzhou, and when I am about to leave Xuzhou, I want to buy a house in Xuzhou Surabaya Scenic Area.

In the second year of Yuanfeng, Su Shi was transferred to Huzhou. He wrote a "Huzhou Expression of Thanks" to Song Shenzong. However, this originally just a routine thank you note was seized by the new party. Everyone The words have become a manifestation of Su Shi's rebellion and disloyalty. Su Shi, who had just taken office for three months, was arrested and taken to the capital. This is the famous "Wutai Poetry Case". There are many cypress trees in the Yushitai, and many crows live here, so It is called Wutai, but now, many censors in the Yushitai are like crows announcing the date of Su Shi's death. Fortunately, there are still sensible people in the court. Even Wang Anshi, who has retired long ago, is worried because Su Shi was in office. With his outstanding performance, he persuaded the emperor to keep Su Shi. The former prime minister's advice allowed Su Shi to escape. After walking out of prison, he went to Huangzhou and became the deputy envoy of the Huangzhou regiment training. His position was roughly equivalent to that of the city. The captain of the security team at the government gate. The world is a big dream, how many autumns are there in life? ?Su Shi thought he was worthy of being an emperor, but he ended up like this. His human feelings were cold and warm. Who cares how cold and desolate a down-and-out minister is? Although Su Shi was already disheartened in the officialdom, in the course of his life, Su Shi gained a profound enlightenment. "Using the time to give up and practice is hidden in me" created Su Shi's broad heart. In Huangzhou, he completed My own transformation from Su Shi to Su Dongpo.

My life has been drifting, ups and downs

After several ups and downs, the rain and the wind were crazy, and my temples turned to frost in the blink of an eye. In the seventh year of Yuanfeng, Su Shi took office in Ruzhou. Along the way, he experienced the pain of losing his son, and Ruzhou was a long way away, so he planned to make Changzhou the place where he would die. I thought that this was the end of the political road, but unexpectedly, the new party was suppressed, Su Shi returned to the government, and truly reached the peak of his life. However, in the eighth year of Yuanyou, the new party came to power again, and Su Shi was demoted again and again, and was exiled to Danzhou, Hainan.

When Su Shi was in Danzhou, he did not chant "How many times are there cold autumns in life?". Instead, he took Danzhou as his second hometown and opened a school here. Like Confucius, he taught without distinction and carried forward cultural undertakings. , Su Shi's arrival broke the hopeless official career of Danzhou students. Not long after he returned to the north, Danzhou Jiang Tangzuo came to pay tribute to his hometown.

Su Shi's father, Su Xun, injected the shadow of Taoism into his thinking, which enabled him to be arrogant without relying on favor and not humble to please. From his performance in Xuzhou, it can be seen that the Confucian worldly thinking and the Taoist worldly thought have been perfectly integrated. The Wutai Poetry Case is a spiritual experience for Su Shi. After experiencing these, how could Su Shi despair?