Original | Su Dongpo, Happy Birthday

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Come, everyone sits, I ask a question, who are the most suitable friends of the ancients?

Passerby A raised his hand, "Of course, it's none other than my family Li Bai!" Follow Li Bai to eat meat and drink wine! 'Li Baidou wine hundred poems, Chang'an City on the restaurant sleep, tianzi called not to the ship, claiming that the subject is a wine immortal...""

Passerby B was suddenly dissatisfied, "Stop! stop! Why did you still have it on your back? This is my family Du Fu wrote well no! The most suitable ancient person to be a friend is of course Du Fu, 'Huang Siniang's family is full of flowers, thousands of flowers are low. You see, just because he is his neighbor, he will write you into poetry and let you live forever in the textbooks of primary and secondary school students. ”

And I thought and thought, or recommend Su Shi Su Dongpo, I will talk about my reasons.

"I can accompany the Jade Emperor, and I can accompany the beggars of the Beitianyuan, and there is no bad person in the world." Su Dongpo's words show his open-minded, frank, and unfutile nature, such a person will naturally have a very large "circle of friends", and from the perspective of being suitable for friends, "incurable lotte pie" (Lin Yutang evaluation) should be his more prominent personality charm, who does not want their friends to be interesting?

Today we will not talk about his poems, words, books, paintings, articles and philosophical ideas, but only his most humorous side, from the few jokes he told, to experience his optimism, tolerance and integrity.

-- Optimism at a critical juncture is even more bold

In the second year of Yuan Feng (1079), Su Shi was convicted of poetry, and Emperor Fu obeyed the order to go to Huzhou to arrest Su Shi and imprison him.

When Su Shi's family learned of this news, Dengshi panicked and saw that Su Shi was about to be escorted to Beijing, so he cried like a life and death.

Su Shi was also uneasy in his heart at this moment, but he couldn't bear his family's worries, and the "optimism" attacked, so he said to his wife, "Zi Du can't be like Yang's wife, write a poem to send me?" The words made the wife laugh.

It turned out that Su Shi once told his wife a story: Before Song Zhenzong searched for hermits all over the world, he heard that Yang Pu could compose poems, that is, he summoned him to ask questions, who knew that Yang Pu did not want to be an official, so he said no, Song Zhenzong was a little angry, and asked, "Did someone write poems for you before you came?" Yang Pu said, "Only my wife sent one: more depressed and lazy cup of wine, and Mo Rampant love poetry." Today, the general will go to the official, and this time he will break the old man's skin! Song Zhenzong laughed loudly before letting him go home.

When life and death are uncertain, Su Shi uses this joke to comfort his wife, so that his impatient wife can break into laughter, which is really a big husband who can take responsibility and has a heart.

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In the early years of the Yuan Dynasty (1086), Su Dongpo came to run and was appointed as a member of the Ceremonial Department.

Coincidentally, working with the prison officer who had embarrassed him at that time, after the man saw Su Dongpo, he was full of shame, afraid that Su Dongpo would retaliate against him.

Su Dongpo never remembered the overnight vendetta, and when he saw that the man had remorse, he wanted to make reparations and did not know how to open his mouth, so he preemptively told a joke and brushed it over.

Su Dongpo said that once upon a time, there was a mountain, and there was a temple in the mountain...

Ah, no, there was a serpent that bit a man to death, and the king of Yama asked him to pay for it, and the serpent complained, "I am guilty, but I also have merit, and I can atone for my sins." Yama asked, "What?" The snake said, "I have 'yellow' and have saved many people." So the king of Yama pardoned the serpent.

Later, another cow died, and the king of Yama asked it to pay for it, and the cow also complained, "I also have 'yellow', and I have saved many people." The king of Yama, with a black line on his face, pardoned the cattle.

Later, the little devil grabbed a person and said that this person had killed someone, and when he paid for it with his life, the person was busy arguing, "I also have 'yellow'!" The king of Yama was furious, "Snakes have snake yellow, cattle have cow yellow, and both can be used in medicine, and the whole world knows it." You are human, why should you? The man was a little embarrassed, "I don't have any other 'yellow', just a little ashamed of 'trepidation'." ”

The prison officer listened and smiled redly.

Su Dongpo did not count his previous suspicions, and between talking and laughing, he resolved a period of enmity, which shows his tolerance and generosity.

- The integrity of not showing favoritism is even more wise

Su Dongpo has been diligent and honest all his life, and has never liked to "go through the back door."

A deceased person came to visit, hoping to "help with a word" and arrange a job for him. He first went to find Su Rui, failed to do so, and then came to see Su Dongpo, which was difficult for our Su Da Duan zi hand, and he told a joke to show his heart.

Su Dongpo said that once upon a time, there was a person whose family was poor and wanted to dig graves for a living.

When he opened an ancient tomb, he did not expect to see a naked person, who said to him, "Don't you know that this is the tomb of Yang Wangsun of the Han Dynasty?" I am famous for correcting the world with a naked burial, how can there be money to help you! ”

The grave digger had to work hard to dig another tomb, and this time, he saw an emperor, and the emperor said, "I am Emperor Wen of Han, and before I died, there was an edict that the burial items should not have gold and jade, and the terracotta tiles could be used, so there was nothing valuable to satisfy you." The gravedigger was so frustrated that he had to withdraw, and when he saw two graves connected together, he immediately began to dig them.

It took a long time for him to dig through the tomb on the left, and the person in this tomb said, "I am Boyi, who starved to death at the foot of Shouyang Mountain because I 'didn't eat Zhou Millet', and I had nothing to fulfill your needs." The gravedigger sighed, "Alas, I dug the grave so hard, why did I find nothing?" Why not dig the tomb on the right, maybe you will get some treasures. As soon as Bo Yi heard this, he said to him, "Don't waste your efforts, you see I am so skinny and skinny, the tomb on the right is buried by my brother Shu Qi, he is also starving to death, we are in a similar situation." ”

The old man listened to this joke told by Su Dongpo, smelled the sound of the piano and knew the meaning, and "laughed and left."

Obviously, this joke of digging up a tomb and looking for treasure was made up by Su Dongpo, and his intention was to gently advise the deceased: I Su Dongpo cannot help you arrange work in Yamen, if you have the heart to do political affairs, you should rely on your own efforts, follow the right path, take the big road, and never use your mind to think about the doorway and try the crooked road.

At the same time, he also hinted that my brother Su Rui was the same as me, and you should not go to him again.

Su Dongpo is like a "heavenly immortal", in order to make the world more interesting, he chose to come to the human world, although the imperial court did not treat him gently, but Su Dongpo, who experienced ups and downs, reached the noble realm of "loving life" and "enjoying life", injecting a scarce "Qinghuan" force into the spiritual connotation of the Chinese nation.

Countless descendants have made friends with him through familiar reading of his poems, and even more by understanding his life, it can be said that how many hardcore fans of Su Dongpo are in the future, and how many close friends of Su Dongpo are.

This is our old friend today, Su Dongpo, who loves to tell jokes, do you like it? (Cai Xianglong)