01 Su Wu's story
Last night, before going to bed, I read Su Wu's "Leaving a Wife", in order to strengthen the learning effect, after lying in bed, I used Baidu to check Su Wu's life. To be honest, before, I only knew the story of Su Wu shepherding sheep.
I didn't want to, this inspection, I saw my blood boiling, and I was drowsy, and I didn't fall asleep until more than three o'clock in the morning.
Su Wu was ordered by Emperor Wu of Han to send an envoy to the Western Regions, and was singled out for his involvement in the internal rebellion of the Xiongnu. Shan Yu initially wanted to kill Su Wu, but later, under the persuasion of the chancellor, he was persuaded to surrender.
But Su Wuning did not comply, and the Huns threw him into a dry well, and as a result, he swallowed the felt hair in the snow and saved his life. When the Huns saw that he was starving and could not kill him, they were so shocked that they released him and continued to persuade him to surrender.
But Suwu still preferred to die, so the Huns gave him a ram (who could not give birth to a lamb) and exiled him to the Baikal region to graze, saying that as long as the sheep gave birth to lambs, they would release him back.
Su Wu held his ground in the bitter cold and stubbornly survived. During this period, Li Ling came to persuade him several times to surrender, telling him that Su Wu's brother and brother were executed for offending the powerful, but Su Wu was not at all moved.
Who is Li Ling? He was the grandson of the flying general Li Guang, and in the battle against the Xiongnu, he led 5,000 infantry to encounter tens of thousands of xiongnu main cavalry, and was captured after exhaustion. At first, Li Ling did not surrender, but Emperor Wu of Han misheard the rumors and thought that he was training soldiers and horses for the Xiongnu, so he killed Li Ling's entire family. Sima Qian was questioned for interceding for Li Ling, and only later did he write the ancient masterpiece "History". After Li Ling heard about the disaster of destroying the gate, he really surrendered to the Xiongnu, which led to the bridge section that Li Ling later persuaded Su Wu to surrender.
After the death of Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Zhao of Han took the throne. A few years later, the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu reached a peace agreement and asked the Xiongnu to return Su Wu. At first, Shan Yu excused su Wu that Su Wu was dead, but later it was Han who used the plan to prompt Shan Yu to release Su Wu back.
At this time, Su Wu had been in the Xiongnu for 19 years. When Li Ling sent him back, he sighed and said: "Now that he has returned from his feet, he has made a name for himself in the Xiongnu, and his merits have been manifested in the Han Room, although it is contained in the ancient bamboo and painted by Dan Qing, how can he pass the Ziqing!" "Ziqing is Su Wu's word."
When Su Wu returned to Chang'an, he was 60 years old, his wife had already remarried, and he was later respected by officials and lived to the age of 80.
02 The Spirit of Su Wu
Su Wu kept the festival and preferred to die rather than surrender. In the face of the threat of the Xiongnu, he stabbed himself to death, but was later saved by the healers; in the face of the Xiongnu's inducement, he resolutely rejected the high-ranking official Houlu; in the face of the hard life of Lake Baikal, he resolutely persisted for more than ten years; in the face of Li Ling's persuasion, he was not at all moved; in the face of the fact that his relatives were executed by the Han Chamber and his wife was remarried, he was still loyal...
In the past, we often talked about the five-thousand-year history of the Chinese nation, and there were many people and things to sing and cry, but most of everyone's attention was on the emperors and generals, as well as philosophers and great writers, because the former created a history of ups and downs dynasties, and the latter wrote a brilliant spiritual culture.
Now, I occasionally read about figures like Su Wu again, although they have not done anything earth-shattering, but the integrity and integrity they show are admired and fascinated, which is where the backbone of the Chinese nation lies, and it is an example that ordinary people can learn, emulate, and pursue.
Just like the martyr Fang Zhimin, although he died very early (36 years old), he was not afraid of coercion and inducement in prison, he was not afraid of severe torture, and even the enemy caught his wife, and he could not shake him in the slightest. In prison, he even wrote articles such as "Qing Poverty" and "Lovely China", which are real blood books and can be passed on to all generations.
03 Descendants of Su Wu
Chinese always consider himself a descendant of a dragon. "Dragon", in addition to being a blood inheritance and totemic symbol, is also a spiritual continuation.
"I will not regret entering China in this life, and I will do Chinese in the next life" and "Those who offend me in China will be punished from afar", these words, every time they are read, make people feel excited. I think that Chinese, or descendants of Yanhuang, is not only a regional symbol and cultural symbol, but also a spiritual symbol. What is Chinese?
"Rich and noble cannot be adulterous, poor and lowly cannot be moved, mighty cannot be bent", "Do not eat food that comes from the mouth", "Prefer to be jade fragmented, not for Waquan", "Life since ancient times, who has not died, leave Dan heart to take care of sweat and green", these are the attributes given by the ancients to Chinese.
In modern times, countless benevolent people, in order to save the survival of the people, have written magnificent stories that can be sung and wept in this land of China.
In modern times, material civilization and spiritual civilization are highly developed, it can be said that the people are rich and the world is peaceful, so what will these generations leave for China?