Many people know the idiom "Hedong Lion Roar" and its meaning, but they don't necessarily know that this idiom comes from a poem by Su Dongpo, a great writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, and there is an interesting story behind this!
Su Dongpo
Su Dongpo described it in the poem "Send Wu Deren and Jian Chen Jichang" as follows: "Overhearing the roar of the lion in Hedong, the cane fell to the palm of the hand dazed", a generation of talented chen Ji often because of his wife's roar, he was frightened "the cane fell to the palm of the hand dazed", it was really hilarious!
There is a movie in Hong Kong called "Hedong Lion Roar", which plays the story of Su Dongpo's close friend Chen Jichang.
Stills from the movie "Hedong Lion Roar"
In 1080, Su Dongpo was relegated to Huangzhou (黄州, in modern Huanggang, Hubei) because of the Wutai poetry case, and when he first arrived in Huangzhou, Su Dongpo was unaccompanied. His friend Chen Ji often came to Huangzhou City to visit Su Dongpo, and he offered all kinds of condolences and invited Su Dongpo to play at home, which was very enthusiastic and made Su Dongpo feel very warm.
Later, Su Dongpo and Chen Jichang were often together, inseparable, and both of them were good at Learning Buddhism, and they also enjoyed poetry, painting, and literary talents, and had similar interests.
Chen Ji is often a person with a personality, who is bold and generous, loyal and sincere, because he is the son of an official eunuch, the family is very rich and solid, it is inevitable that there is a popular extravagant habit among the children of the rich family at that time, he has raised a lot of singers at home, and he likes to call friends to come to the house to feast on weekdays. In addition to talking about the scriptures and chanting poems, the banquet often let the singers and dances, and when they were still unfinished, they even hired some singers from outside the song workshop to come to the song to accompany the wine.
Chen Jichang plays actor Gu Tianle
Chen Jichang's wife, Liu Shi (柳氏), of Hedong (古河東郡, in present-day southwestern Shanxi), came from a prominent family, but was violent and jealous.
Every time Chen Ji often invited others to dinner at home, as long as there was a song and a song player, Liu Shi would be jealous, knocking around with a stick, while shouting and shouting, this situation could not stand anyone, the visiting guests were embarrassed to resign, and the banquet was quickly dispersed.
One day, Chen Jichang and Su Dongpo got together again to discuss Buddhism until the middle of the night, when Liu Shi suddenly appeared and yelled, "I don't sleep yet!" ”。 This voice frightened Chen Jichang and frightened him to drop the crutch in his hand.
Later, Su Dongpo wrote a poem to make fun of it: "The residents of Longqiu are also pitiful, and they talk about the emptiness and say that there is no sleep at night." Overhearing the roar of the lion in Hedong, the staff fell into the palm of his hand in a daze. ”
"Hedong" is the hometown of the Liu clan, which alludes to the Liu clan. "Lion's roar" is derived from the Buddhist scriptures, which means "Rulai Zhengsheng", which is a metaphor for majesty. This story was later included in the "Three Strokes of Rong Zhai" and was widely circulated. "Hedong Lion Roar" has since been used to describe a fierce wife, used to ridicule the husband for fearing his wife.
A joke poem, it can be seen that the lively and cute side of the great writer, he can write out the pattern of small things, write out the ordinary normal novelty, his pen is "exaggerated" truth, but that is his truth. With this truth, you can explore more interesting anecdotes about him.
★ Source: Xiamen Satellite TV", "Secret Archives of the Two Sides of the Strait"
★ Written by: Han Yongjie
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