Everyone has a Su Shi in their hearts

In China's ancient history, there was a person who almost reached the point where no one did not love.

Many people can say his name.

He is Su Shi.

The people love his open-mindedness and optimism, his colleagues love his talent, the women love his humor, and the literati love him when he faces ups and downs...

We can boldly say that everyone has a Su Shi in their minds.

Such a character who combines wisdom and beauty, we have no reason not to love him, there is no reason not to read him, but unfortunately, such an ancient figure full of philosophy of life, but few people have specifically and systematically told his life, unfortunately, "Life is like a reverse journey, fortunately there is Su Shi" just to do this.

This is an essay about Su Shi, from the eight aspects of hometown, family affection, flower appreciation, friendship, food, family style, tea tasting and life and death, showing the poetic charm and ideological power of this ancient who has left us for more than a thousand years, giving people spiritual boost and enlightenment.

This book does a good job of that.

Su Shi was a young soldier and stayed in Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty and began his career as an official eunuch.

There is no doubt that he is an official with his own ideals, he does not want to live a confused life, he always wants to think things clearly and do clearly, so he can always do it in the most correct direction, the consequences of this are also the most intuitive, sometimes it is inevitable that he is not in line with the group, so the open-minded Su Shi benefits he can not catch, the danger he can not avoid, so we see that his life is basically on the road to degrading officials to continue to move forward.

After he was demoted to Huangzhou, because his life was tight, he deliberately let people leave a piece of land for himself, and the tangtang wenhao took off his official clothes and changed into tattered clothes, opened up wasteland, built houses, and lived a full farmer's life.

Ordinary people face such changes, afraid that they can't stand it for a while and a half, but he is calm and self-assured.

Even said in "Fixing the Storm";

Don't listen to the sound of leaves beating through the forest, why not groan and walk slowly. Bamboo cane mango shoes lighter than horses. Who is afraid? A cloud of smoke and rain is a life of peace. The steep spring wind blows wine awake, slightly cold, but the mountain head obliquely illuminates each other. Looking back at the place where it has always been, returning, there is no wind or rain or sunshine.

This eons-old oratorio noun, Su Shi said his calmness and calmness without reservation, and no matter how big the difficulty is, it is just a smoke and rain.

Some people say that whether a person is really open-minded or not depends mainly on his attitude towards his friends.

This is a very appropriate word to use on Su Shi, as we all know, Su Shi had two friends in his life, one named Zhang Dun and the other named Wang Anshi.

Because of the political disagreement, Wang Anshi rejected Su Shi in his heart, and Su Shi fundamentally disapproved of Wang Anshi's change.

Later, Wang Anshi was sad that his change of law was being used by villains, and he resigned his official position in a huff and lived in seclusion in Nanjing, while Su Shi had been wandering in Jianghuai after being degraded to Huangzhou, and once passed through Nanjing, he wanted to visit Wang Anshi.

After Wang Anshi heard about it, he also threw away everything, and despite the initial recovery of his serious illness, he rode a donkey to the riverside to meet Su Shi, and Su Shi, because he was too late to put on his hat, greeted him and said to Wang Anshi: "I am wearing village clothes today to meet the Grand Chancellor!" ”

Wang Anshi smiled and said, "Is the ritual law set up for people like us?" ”

The two looked at each other and laughed.

In the past, the two people had many misunderstandings because of their different views, and when all the dust settled, the two laughed and passed, which was Su Shi.

Another friend, Zhang Dun, can say that Su Shi's life's suffering is all due to him.

The two used to be very good friends, Zhang Dun even for Su Shi did not hesitate to make a vendetta with people, after Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou, Zhang Dun did not shy away from correspondence with Su Shi continuously, which was the warmth of Su Shi's life.

However, two such good friends went to the opposite side because of their different views, and their former friends became enemies, and their serious sense of revenge and jealousy of revenge made Zhang Dun once want to put Su Shi and die.

Su Shi's officials were degraded again and again, and eventually to the deserted Hainan, setting a precedent for the Northern Song Dynasty to degrade officials to Hainan.

This year, Su Shi was already sixty-two years old, and it was difficult to say whether he had a life or not.

But even so, Su Shi still chose to forgive.

In 1100, after Emperor Huizong of Song succeeded to the throne, the imperial court granted amnesty and Su Shi was reinstated as Chao Fenglang, but Zhang Dun was deposed, and his opponents turned over more old accounts, resulting in being demoted to Leizhou. The result was not satisfactory, and upon learning of Su Shi's return, his son wrote to Su Shi hoping that Su Shi would turn a blind eye to the Zhang family and not retaliate. Su Shi replied in the letter: "A certain and a certain person have been friends for more than forty years, although the source in the middle is slightly different, the friendship has not increased or lost anything." Smell its high years, send to the corner of the sea, this nostalgia can be known. But what good is it to say in the past? Only those who have not yet done so....."

Now that the matter is over, don't mention it again.

Decades of grievances have faded.

Some people say that a person's heart is broad and willing to tolerate others, and Su Shi is such a person.

We may not be able to do Su Shi's open-mindedness and calmness, nor do we have his courage to continue to move forward in the face of life, but when we put a Su Shi in our hearts and encounter a low point in life, we may as well read Su Shi, learn his open-mindedness, learn his attitude in the face of suffering, and learn the courage he chooses to let go...