introduction
The Old Book of Tang records: "The authorities called themselves fans, and they watched the trial." Derived from this is a proverb that "the authorities are confused, the bystanders are clear". As the saying goes, "I don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, but I am in this mountain." This famous sentence of Su Shi in "Title Xi Lin Bi" is also implicitly in this meaning.
▲Statue of Su Shi
Su Shi, who was quite accomplished in literature, was known as one of the "Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties", known as "Su Dongpo". Su Shi, who is blameless in literature, did not develop very smoothly in his career. In the 4th year of Xi Ning (1071 AD), this year was when Wang Anshi came to power, and Su Shi and Wang Anshi belonged to different political parties, and it was common for them to disagree and tit-for-tat in the court. This time, Su Shi began to attack Wang Anshi's new law. This made Wang Anshi furious, and he immediately asked Su Shi to confess Su Shi's mistakes in front of Song Shenzong. Su Shi finally had to voluntarily request to be transferred out of the capital, which is one reason why Su Shi often wandered away and was not an official in Beijing.
01
During his tenure as an official, one of the events that had the greatest influence on Su Shi was the Wutai Poetry Case. In the second year of Yuanfeng (1079 AD), Su Shi in Huzhou Zhizhou wrote a "Huzhou Xie Table" in order to show his gratitude to the emperor, but the literati were always prone to unable to control their pen poles, and the same was true of a generation of literary heroes, who could not help but hide the machine in the article.
▲ "Huzhou Xie Table" calligraphy
Therefore, in this thank you table, Su Shi once again stabbed the honeycomb, and the new party elements circled words such as "stupid and inappropriate, it is difficult to follow the new advance", "the old do not have trouble or can shepherd the small people", and complained to the emperor, saying that Su Shi was uneven in his heart, disrespectful to the imperial court, and disloyal to the officials. They began to look for Su Shi's political handle, and fiercely ridiculed Su Shi, saying that he was arrogant and arrogant, and the emperor was obviously on the side of the new party elements, so Su Shi, who had been in Huzhou for three months, was arrested by Yu Shitai and sent to the capital.
After this incident, although Su Shi was not killed, he was once again degraded. This time, the place where he was degraded was Huangzhou, and the position he held was another position without any real power, so Su Shi was a little discouraged. In order to relieve the boredom in his heart, he decided to entertain himself, so Su Shi found a slope in the east of the city, personally reclaimed it, planted vegetables and chickens every day, and lived the life of an ordinary farmer. Of course, there is another reason for farming, that is, the status of official positions, the scarcity of money, farming can fill the family and maintain livelihood. This is also the reason why he is known as the "Resident of the Eastern Slope" by the world.
▲Portrait of Su Shi
02
According to Su Shi, a person who is good at making fun in suffering, naturally will not immerse himself in depressed emotions. Soon after, Su Shi accidentally became acquainted with the Buddhist master of the Golden Mountain Temple. The two of them soon became a pair of friends who met and hated each other. One of the two was a famous talent, and the other was a famous monk, so in addition to "fighting a war of words", they would also talk about learning and meditation together. On this day, Su Shi, who was idle and idle, wrote a poem to the Buddha Seal: "In the middle of the heavens, there is no light in the sky; the eight winds cannot move, and sit on the purple lotus." However, after reading the reply of the Buddha Seal, Su Shi was indignant, because the Buddhist seal actually gave him a poem annotation of "farting", and he decided to go to the Golden Mountain Temple himself to ask the reason why the Buddha Seal was so annotated.
Buddha Yin Shiran replied: "The layman claimed that 'the eight winds could not blow', how could he also be 'beaten across the river by a fart'?" Su Shi was dumbfounded, and had to admire. The Buddha Seal cleverly put himself in an army.
▲Buddha seal and portrait of Su Dongpo
03
And Su Shi's troubles in Huangzhou are not only this one, except for the well-known "dog chewing on the river (monk) bone, water drifting Dongpo poem (corpse). "There are two other interesting things that everyone also talks about.
It is said that one day, Su Dongpo went to visit the Buddha Seal again, and the Buddha Seal was meditating routinely, and Su Dongpo also followed the meditation in a similar way. After a burning incense, the Buddha seal finally ended meditating. Su Shi then asked the Buddha Seal, "Master, you see, what am I like now?" The Buddha seal responded, "Lay people are like Buddhas." Su Dongpo was exaggerated, but he was not satisfied: "Master, do you know what you look like in my eyes?" Masters are like dung. Buddha Yin smiled slightly, and did not argue. However, after returning home, Su Xiaomei heard her brother bragging about this matter, and couldn't help but laugh: "Brother, Sam zen pays attention to seeing the mind, the Buddha seal looks at you like a Buddha, it is he who has a Buddha in his heart; you say that he is like dung, so what are you?" ”
▲Portrait of Su Xiaomei
Another time, Su Shi came to look for the Buddha seal again, who knew that the Buddha seal was not there, and it was a small Shami who opened the door. Su Shi was not good enough to hold back the Buddha's seal, so he shouted at Xiao Shami, "Where is the bald donkey?" Not to be outdone, Xiao Shami replied: "Dongpo eats grass." Su Shi was greatly surprised to hear this, and he did not expect that the little Shami under the Buddha Seal Seat was also so sharp-toothed. However, he could not always argue with a small child, and could only eat dumb losses in a sullen manner.
epilogue
The literati joked, just like the samurai weapon fight, which was very interesting. Chinese literati have multiple literatures, heavy wind and bones, but also heavy sense of humor. As a result, the literati playing machine front has also become a common bridge section in the history of the novel, for everyone to laugh at, and it is also a kind of entertainment for people in their leisure time.