Huangzhou.
On a night in December of the second year of Yuan Feng (1079), the gentleman who lived in the Dinghui Courtyard felt damp and cold, so cold that it was chilling. Looking at su mai, the eldest son who was curled up in the bed with himself in Huangzhou at this time, thinking that a large number of people were displaced because of themselves, thinking that they had experienced the doom of escaping from death, and now it was a small official who was physically and mentally exhausted and uncertain, and Mr. Mister's eye socket was wet. It really has to be "laughing at yourself for being busy with your mouth, and turning your career absurd in old age." ”
In the middle of the night, lonely candles shed tears, tossing and turning, difficult to sleep, thinking of relatives and friends in the eyes, who knows how to live a difficult day.
It is difficult to sleep, cloaked, looking for pen and ink, complaining about grievances. After a little thought, a poem "The East of the Dinghuiyuan Of The Miscellaneous Flowers Are Full of Begonias and a Native Man Who Doesn't Know Guiye" jumped on the paper. Who knows" also knows that creation has a deep meaning, so send beautiful people in the empty valley, there are tears in the rain and sorrow, no one under the moon is more pure... "What a long night!
Winter to spring is still embarrassing. One day, after dinner, Mr. went for a walk by the river, the spring rain under the sunset, the lonely pedestrians on the small bridge, the bamboo in the ancient temple, and the water birds dancing by the river. After returning home, Mr. Chengxing wrote the poem "After the rain is clear, step to the fish pond under the Siwang Pavilion, and then go from the qianming temple". Among them, the sentence "Where the stork crane comes from, the trumpet is full of sunset" seems to be plain, the song of the stork crane has the sound of mourning, and the residual sun under the sunset has the meaning of dripping blood. After experiencing the "Wutai Poetry Case", my husband even became implicit and stoic when he wrote poetry.
The next year, the family came. First living in the monastery, and then moving to the official station "guest house" temporarily, this is not the way, and finally with the help of friends, he built his own nest "Snow Hall" on the eastern slope of Huangzhou. As a result, Mr. Li gave himself the elegant title of "Dongpo Resident" and completed the transformation of the scholar Su Shi to Su Dongpo. Farming is self-sufficient, life has improved slightly, reading, writing, and making friends with the nearby "Guo Yaoshi, Ma Shusheng, mr. Gu", although poor and happy.
People have joys and sorrows. The expression of emotions is nothing more than verbal expressions and gestures, poetry, songs and words. These are superficial phenomena, and the most private is the letter in the text, which is the private words between friends and relatives, and is often the most true.
Life was slightly more stable, and the gentleman naturally thought of his colleagues and friends. I have just come to Huangzhou and the situation is not familiar with it, so I can write a letter to inform them, but now I am good and can communicate with them.
At the end of May, his brother Su Rui came to visit and brought a letter from Qin Guan, in which he asked Han Han for warmth and care. Reading the letter, Mr.'s mood fluctuated, he wanted to come to Qinguan, the word was less traveling, the word was too vain, he was intelligent and ambitious since childhood, although he was more than one round younger than himself, but he was like-minded. In the early years, under the recommendation of Mr. Buchen, his poems were appreciated by Wang Anshi, the prime minister of the dynasty, and since then Mr. Buchen has gradually improved. When he was a Taishou in Xuzhou, he made a special trip to pay homage to him and wrote a poem: "I do not want to be a thousand households, but I wish to know Su Xuzhou." At that time, he was still a cloth cloth, and under the encouragement of his husband, he was admitted to the jinshi six years later and became one of the "four sumen scholars".
At the time of the disaster, the gentleman did not hesitate to write back to the letter to describe his current situation. His younger brother Su Rui lost his daughter, he lost his grandmother, his cousin died in Meizhou, and he was sick again, and he had to talk about desolation and bad luck.
Mr. Qin Guan was very happy to learn that Qin Guan had recovered from illness, and the topic turned to himself, wanting to go to the 'Tianqing Guan' retreat for forty-nine days in winter, and also laughed at himself that only degraded officials had such a time. He also praised the poems attached to Qin Guan's letter and encouraged him to write more articles not to involve current politics, and not to give up scientific research. It was in this letter that The gentleman confessed his situation when he first arrived in Huangzhou. At the beginning of the month, four thousand five hundred dollars were taken, divided into thirty parts, and hung on the beams of the house. Every day at dawn, a drawing fork is used to pick a copy, then the fork is hidden, and the unused money is put into a bamboo tube for entertaining guests.
I think Mr. I painted myself too badly, but that's the way it is. In order to give Qin Guan a wide heart, Mr. Feng turned his pen and virtualized his comfortable side. What is the wonderful landscape by the river, what are the compatriots who live in the city and often meet to drink and kill chickens and slaughter geese for hospitality, what the wine in the countryside is delicious, what officials in Huangzhou invite to the banquet... My life is not very moist, and the beard that you will laugh at here is shaking.
Sir, I don't know how Qin Guan feels when I read your letter, you are just optimistic, you can't put down the shelf anymore, and you don't play like this! This is the fact that Mr. Went to fake the truth at that time, the waves between the plain, the humiliation and the burden of ridicule, the emperor on the emperor and the beggar, the Huangzhou Dongpo peach blossom garden.
If in the letter to the "Book of Qin Taixuan", Mr. Li still has some cover-ups about the situation in front of him, then in the letter to his old friend Li Chang (Zi Gongxuan), he leaked the "Heavenly Opportunity" without paying attention. Mr. Li Gongxuan is ten years older, and he has the same political views as Mr. Li, who has a very good friendship with him, and Mr. Li uses "It is advisable for me to be good with my master and brotherhood." " to describe the relationship. At that time, the "Six Guests' Association" in Huzhou (Su Shi, Zhang Xian, Chen Shunyu, Yang Yi, Li Chang, Liu Shu) left a strong mark in the history of the Great Song Dynasty when the literati and scholars met, and later Mr. Li Gongxuan, who led the team to change defenses, praised him as "halfway through the mountain, and thousands of people rushed to see who immortals came," such as the correspondence of friendship is certainly worth believing.
The reason was that Mr. Li was a little nervous when he learned that Li Gongxuan was transferred back to the Beijing Division, so he wrote a letter to talk about his views. Mr. Li took himself as a lesson and experienced that the income was small and the population was large, and he had to live frugally, almost to the point of miserliness, although it was out of necessity. Stingy or frugal or always have to live a life, the practice of moderation, but also the way to cherish the blessing and prolong life, you go to the Beijing division as an official, "Chang'an residence, it is not easy" will give you this experience, the younger brother is guilty, this strategy is very smart, do not believe to try? A laugh, a laugh.
"It is not difficult not to be broken, and it is not blessed to be blessed" is so sour that the literati and scholars wrapped up the embarrassment of life by quoting the scriptures. In front of his friends, he dared to analyze his own bluntness and admonition, which was respectable, and also objectively confirmed the situation in Huangzhou as described in the letter to Qin Guan. Difficult, from the scholar who eats and drinks without worry to the real life of "breaking a penny into two halves", Mr. Li has sublimated his great personality in self-deprecation.
At the same time, in reply to the poem sent by Li Gongxuan, he confessed: "Although I am old and poor, the truth runs through the heart and liver, loyalty fills the bone marrow, and it is necessary to talk and laugh at the time of death and life." "Sonorous and powerful words, this is the sincere and frank Mr., this is the mr. of the family and the world."
Since the "Wutai Poetry Case", there have been many people who have been implicated by Mr. Wang Gong, the character Dingguo, is one of them. To say how deep the friendship between Mr. wang and him is, I think that when mr. Xu was too punctual in Xuzhou, he invited Wang Gong to come when he built the "Yellow Tower" to commemorate the victory of the flood fight. In the half-month period, they traveled together, played the flute and drank poetry under the moon, and played happily and drank happily. Mr. Li once gave a poem that "Li Taibai died, and there is no such happiness in the world for three hundred years!" This shows the high evaluation.
The closer the person was to him, the heavier the treatment, and Wang Gong was sent to the barbaric Lingnan Guangxi Binzhou. Even so, he wrote a letter to comfort his husband on the way to be degraded, and after reading it, he felt guilty and moved. In his reply, the gentleman reproached himself, saying that you are the most seriously implicated by me, and you have been the farthest in your hair distribution, and every time you think of it, it is like a thorn in your body and mind like oil. Instead of blaming me, you comfort me, which shows that you are a person, and that you do not abandon the high wind and bright festival when your friends lose power. It is a blessing in life to have a friend like you, and may you use the words of admonition to me to warn yourself to cherish yourself.
As the elder Wang Gong's gentleman of more than ten years old, he was well aware that Wang Gong had the problem of loving to play the score, so he advised him in future letters that "we must be less frugal and not use money and goods lightly,...... In the midst of disaster, self-deprecation is also the end of the misfortune and blessing" and encourage each other to live strongly, this is the gentleman's appearance of a close friend.
Later, Wang Gong returned and took his concubine Rou Nu (Yu Niang) to visit Mr. Wang. During the conversation, there was a feeling of Rou Nu Kazusuke's indifferent answer to adversity, and Mr. Tailor-made a poem "Dingfeng Wave • South China Sea Return to Wang Dingguo Waiter Yu Niang". Among them, "this peace of mind is my hometown" is popular, and "Qiu Yulang, Point Crisp Lady" has become a special word for them," which has been passed down through the ages, of course, this is the last word.
In the three epistles, the peeping leopard explored the mind of the gentleman. As a "Yangchun White Snow" scholar who has no worries about food and clothing, he has inadvertently fallen into the "Lower Riba People" of the grassroots people, how this should be to beat down the mortal dust in the heavens and the earth! Sir is sir, dare to face reality, good at self-repair, able to put down the shelf and tell the truth. Difficult is difficult, bitter is bitter, not so much to cover up than to be painful!
Cultivating the eastern slope is a kind of self-redemption, and enjoying with the people is a kind of generosity, there is no obstacle that cannot be passed, there is no mountain that cannot be turned over. Being an official in the court is a kind of display, being a feudal official is a kind of cultivation, and being a strange road degrading an official is a kind of tempering. Mr. Li constantly changes roles on the stage of life and interprets his wonderful life.