It is said that january 8 of the Gregorian calendar is Su Dongpo's birthday, which is not false, but Su Dongpo himself has lived the nineteenth day of the lunar month in his life. In december, the cold was solved, and in the middle of December, this was the coldest time of the year, and the seasonal flowers and trees that the Song Dynasty responded to were plum blossoms.
Su Shi's youth and youth were smooth, and the people born in the moon, in recent years, Guan, Duo Ruixue, are always bright and beautiful in the spring breeze, but Su Shi's middle age is extremely bumpy and bumpy, and the plum blossom that takes care of the birthday has a deeper meaning in Su Shi's heart.
Su Shi's most beautiful plum blossom poems are all in the middle age, the older the more qing qi and vigorous. It was a metaphor for himself.
In the second year of Yuan Feng (1079), Su Shi was forty-three years old, in Huzhou as Zhizhou, which was to emulate Bai Juyi's middle-aged years to avoid the storm of the court, choose to be a local official, although the political side, but at this time Su Shi was still middle-aged and vigorous, writing in the thank you form to the emperor, "I am a stupid person, it is difficult to walk like a newcomer, I am not old enough, the emperor transferred me to Huzhou and managed the party." According to the reason, such a thank you table, with the nature of self-ridicule, if the relationship between the monarch and the subject is good, the emperor is only smiling, Su Shi's literary style. However, at this point, it was the emperor who was anxious to implement the New Deal, and Su Shi was an opponent of the New Deal, and he was read by the good deeds as another irony. Then Su Shi was sent from Huzhou to the capital overnight, and went to prison, where the good deeds took Su Shi's poems, believing that he despised the junshang, ridiculed the New Deal, and did not kill or be unhappy. This is the famous "Wutai Poetry Case" in history. The earliest literal prison of the Song Dynasty.
Su Shi spent 103 days on death row, he was ready to die, and he also felt wronged, but what could he do? What he felt most guilty about at this time was his brother, their parents had passed away, and the cruelty of this world, the wind and snow would break the jade plum blossoms.
With the support of Wang Anshi and many ministers in the court, Su Shi was spared the death penalty and exiled by a middle- and high-ranking official to Huangzhou, Hubei Province, where he was placed under the supervision of local officials under the supervision of local officials.
"Ten days of spring cold do not go out, do not know that Jiang Liu has shaken the village."
A little smell of the ice valley, as far as the green and green without burn marks.
Several acres of deserted gardens stayed for me, and half a bottle of turbid wine waited for Junwen.
Last year today, guanshan road, drizzle plum blossoms are breaking the soul. Northern Song Dynasty · Su Shi Queen City East Zen ZhuangYuan "On the twentieth day of the first month, to the Qi Pavilion, the county people Pan, Gu, Guo, and the three sent Yu Yu"
On the way to Huangzhou, it was the end of winter and the beginning of spring, and Su Shi's birthday was spent on the road of depreciation. Su Shi, who was reborn after the disaster, although the death penalty was spared, the living sin could not escape. Along the way, the wind and rain were cold, and he saw plum blossoms bathed in wind and snow on the mountain road.
For Su Shi, Plum Blossom had never touched his heart like it did now. The past of spring breeze is like a dream, the real life, he is the wind and snow remnant plum, thrown into the wilderness, self-destruction.
Lonely and lonely in the drizzle, the plum blossoms in the winter made him finally see his state clearly. His parents are dead, he is disgusted by the emperor, his life prospects are ruined, and he is ashamed of his brothers, wives and children. Maybe he thought of his birthday more than once, born in the winter, this plum blossom that has nothing to rely on.
When he arrived in Huangzhou, he quickly exhausted his entanglements, and several friends and students who volunteered to follow him were faced with the cruel situation that even eating was a problem. The salary of the deputy envoy of Tuanzhou was enough for him to choke, and this year's local drought in Huangzhou became the biggest problem. Fortunately, Su Shi had the ability to govern the state and county, in order to survive or for everyone to survive, he could write a trust everywhere, and finally obtained an abandoned garden in Huangzhou that no one had cultivated, and these people who accompanied him also put down the body of a reader, opened up the wasteland and cultivated land, and survived like a farmer in this barren place.
The next year, when the plum blossoms were blooming again, they were self-sufficient and turned the cold days into romance.
At the gathering between friends, he has been cheerful and soothing a lot, the human feelings here are warm, solving the problem of survival, looking back at last year on the road of wind and rain, drizzle plum blossoms the mood of the downfall, the memory is still fresh.
He is a middle-aged old plum blossom, and he has survived in the harsh environment here, which is a painful grind and a little release to look back on the past. Since then, Su Shi has affirmed that he is a plum blossom in the winter month, born in the winter month, and blossoming in the winter month.
It was plum blossoms that gave him confidence.
"The east wind and waves on the river are catching the sky, and the bitter cold rogue breaks the spring yan."
Try to open the cloud dream lamb wine, quickly diarrhea Qiantang medicine jade boat.
Silkworm city is not the homeland, and the horse line lights are remembered in that year.
Cold smoke wet snow plum blossoms in, left for the new spring as the yuan. Northern Song Dynasty · Su Shi lit a lamp on the third day of the first month
The five years in Huangzhou were su shi's most arduous five years, and his life and thoughts underwent profound changes. If on the way to come, he can not determine the direction of his future, fell in the cold of the cold rain plum blossoms, then in the most simple and difficult survival of reality, his abandoned plum blossom survived, and life and spirit developed in another direction.
Here, life is hard and poor, but there is a large period of time, stepping on the ancient feelings, he is already a waste of the imperial court, but Daguan is free, the famous "Wave Taosha Great River East" and "Chibi Fu" were written at this time. Ideologically, there is a sense of transcendence that is strong and clear, which is the stage of Su Shi's spiritual transformation into Po Xian.
This is the first month of the fourth year of Huangzhou, the north wind is whistling, the river is shaking, and the rain and snow are everywhere. Su Shi welcomed his guests in the hut who visited him in the snow and wind, and he took out his own reserve of local wine and drank it boldly.
Then this guest is likely to have come from the capital to visit him.
Su Shi has become the host, very modest to say, here is the countryside, and the scenery of the city is incomparable, the city lights, the Spring Festival Lantern Festival is brilliant and lively, but here is only the country market, snubbed and depressed.
However, there is also the most beautiful thing here, that is, plum blossoms, plum blossoms here in the cold smoke, in the wet and cold snow, you look at the lights for the New Year, but here, plum blossoms are open, but also the splendor and lights of the new spring.
Su Shi was a simple peasant at this time, and he identified with all simple things, including plum blossoms.
This plum blossom represents himself, although it is cold smoke and wet snow, but it survives on its own tenacity and greets the spring in the mountain village.
Optimism in the cold is the real optimism, and the openness in the cold is the real openness.
I believe that the people who came must have repaid Su Shi's situation to those who wanted to get his news, including his friends in the capital, the empress dowager, and the emperor.
So Su Shi began to usher in the spring of his career again.
The 49-year-old Su Shi, in the early years of Emperor Zhezong, rose straight up in Qingyun, and in just a few months, he was promoted to the Hanlin Scholar Zhizhi Zhen and zhi li bu tribute. If Su Shi wanted to seek stability and wealth, he could enjoy his success in peace. However, with the tempering of the grassroots, he can see more clearly what policies and systems can benefit the country and the people.
So he's not right about things. But it was this integrity that displeased both the old and the new, and both sides sidelined him.
"Often envious of the human world." Heaven should beg with a crispy lady.
Self-made Qing song to spread the teeth. The wind is blowing.
The snow-flying sea becomes cooler.
The return of miles is getting fewer and fewer. smile.
When you laugh, you still have the fragrance of lingmei. Ask If Lingnan should be good.
But said. This peace of mind is my hometown. Northern Song Dynasty · Su Shi's "Ding Feng Bo Wang Ding National Anthem Is Known as Rou Nu." The surname Yuwen is Yuwen. Eyebrows. Respond well. The family lives in Kyoshi. Dingguo moved south. Yu asked Rou. Quang Nam terroir should be bad. Soft to the eye. This place of peace of mind is my hometown. Because of the word cloud
At this time, the officials implicated in the Wutai poetry case were also released one after another, including Su Shi's friend Wang Dingguo. Wang Dingguo was relegated to Lingnan for several years, and his song Ji Yuwen Rounu did not abandon it. The appearance of two people is also gratifying.
Seeing that Wang Dingguo had returned, the spring breeze was still the same, and Su Shi teased him.
You see your raw pink makeup jade, no wonder God wants to give you a good woman, her singing voice is clear, her voice is snowy, so that the heat wave in Lingnan also becomes snow cool, you look at you, the two people are not bad, the little soft slave is more and more beautiful.
In fact, a Beijing person who goes to a place like Lingnan will also tan in a few years, where the local customs are different, and I have heard that there is often a miasma plague.
Su Shi boasted, and he was actually smart enough to naturally know that since Wang Dingguo was a derogator, there would be poetry in life.
He turned to Rou Nu and asked, are you doing well over there, are you used to it?
But The woman, Rou Nu, smiled and said that this peace of mind was her hometown.
Su Shi instantly felt a beautiful and firm plum blossom standing in front of him.
Yes, where there is good, but Rou Nu is willing to follow Wang Dingguo to suffer, although it is the righteousness of the master and servant, but she is so calm, her heart belongs, Lingnan is good, the capital is good, it is just an external change scenery, and the heart has nothing to do with it.
I think the original words of this poem are definitely not like this, but they are sublimated by Su Shi.
For Rou Nu, the person who tells Ding to love, although bitter and sweet, does not waver.
For Su Shi, he has experienced the storms of a huge life, his heart, naturally not a small child's love, he is not willing to be swayed by the officialdom anymore, saying what I said, do what I do, peace of mind is the fundamental,
That's the quality of a gritty plum blossom.
So Su Shi is really bold, and does not care that his high position is a few years of tribulations, it should be said, the criticism should be criticized, in order to be worthy of the country and life.
Of course, what awaits him is to be unpopular again.
But he didn't care, in Hangzhou, he paid tribute to Bai Juyi to renovate the West Lake again and make it a paradise on earth.
Degraded to Yingzhou, he also dredged and built embankments in Yingzhou's West Lake.
At the age of 57, he was demoted to Huizhou, where he took out his savings and donated to dredge the West Lake and build a long causeway.
Thousands of dollars are scattered, only for the people here to live well. For he recognized himself as the people.
The elderly Su Shi also saw plum blossoms in Lingnan.
There was no sadness that the drizzle plum blossom was breaking the soul, and he saw the plum blossom like the old man.
"In Huainan Village on the Spring Wind Ridge, plum blossoms have broken their souls in the past years.
Do you know that the wanderings and the fall are seen again, and the wind and rain are sad at dusk.
When the wine wakes up and dreams, it feels like it is going around the tree, and the wonderful meaning is in the end.
Sir drink alone do not sigh, fortunately there is a falling moon peeping clear bottle. Northern Song Dynasty · Su Shi "November 26th, under the Songfeng Pavilion, plum blossoms bloom Part 1"
This is his 57th birthday, under the Songfeng Pavilion of the Huizhou Temple, he took the initiative to find plum blossoms. Because plum blossom is him.
He remembered that when he was 43 years old on the road to Huangzhou, he was depressed and very depressed, it was the plum blossom that reminded him, it was the plum blossom that illuminated his original, he agreed, and turned into a flower of life. It is this tenacity in the cold and bitterness that makes Su Shi no longer bound by fame and fortune, like a plum blossom, he is at ease with the encounter, but has a unique personality.
When he saw the plum blossom again, Su Shi was happy.
In the past, the plum blossoms in Huangzhou were cold rain and wet snow, and the plum blossoms here were in the warm rain of the smoke miasma in Lingnan. It doesn't matter.
Drinking under the plum blossoms, Su Shi is not drunk, it is a lifetime and plum blossoms really merge into one soul.
Accompanied by plum blossoms, I think Su Shi thinks that he is really blessed. This is the flower of his birthday, the flower of destiny.
But this fate is not pessimism, but identification.
"Dense bamboo may as well be a strong knot, and the early plum should not regret to recognize the residual flowers."
Making bamboo is definitely to show a vigorous bamboo knot, which is a plum blossom, of course, it will go through wind and snow, and even wither prematurely.
However, it really doesn't matter, at least the whole life is like a plum blossom with its own persistence and its own fragrance.
At the age of 62, Su Shi was exiled farther away, Danzhou, Hainan. He just smiled. Schools are opened here to spread culture.
At the age of 65, in the last year of his life, he received a pardon from the imperial court and reinstated him as a court official. But Su Shi didn't care anymore. Or maybe he didn't care for a long time.
Sick, he deliberately traveled through Meiling, Guangdong, leaving behind many plum blossom poems.
"Plum blossoms bloom as many as they can, but no one can come after all the people."
Do not take advantage of the green plum to taste the boiled wine, to see the drizzle of cooked yellow plums. Northern Song Dynasty · Su Shi "Gifting Plum on the Ridge"
The trip is about April and May, the plum blossoms that spread over the mountains have withered, and Su Shi, who is sick and feels that the time is not long, stays here, standing at the head of the plum blossom ridge to review his life, and gossiping with the old man on the mountain.
He hinted at the old man that although he was returning to Beijing, he was afraid that he would not be able to go back because he was sick.
This poem written to the countless leafy and fruity plum trees in Lingnan represents the last sigh and detachment of his life.
You come when the plum blossoms are in full bloom.
Plum blossoms miss the most brilliant flowering period, but also miss the most extravagant passion, the years of plum cooking wine.
The top of the mountain is full of yellow ripe fruits, is it the wind and frost, sweet? Of course, but it's already too late.
The sunset is infinitely better, just near dusk.
After Su Shi spent Meiling, he died of illness in Changzhou shortly after. For this day, he had a premonition, for returning to the capital, it was no longer his spiritual motivation, his life was like a plum blossom, opening up vigorously and withering.
Morning plum is sorry to recognize the residual flowers, this peace of mind is my hometown.
Su Shi's life is the life of Plum Blossom, a life of self-recognition and struggle. After middle age, he pays attention to the giving and release of life processes, rather than the ending, which is worth learning and thinking about for many people.
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. Image from the web.