In the Wutai poetry case, after Su Shijiu died and was relegated to Huangzhou, Su Shi's state of mind changed greatly. When he first arrived in Huangzhou, Su Shi fell to a low point in his heart and his life was difficult, but Su Shi had an optimistic personality, and with the passage of time, he found his own pleasure in Huangzhou, not only falling in love with the natural scenery of the Huangzhou area, but also meeting a group of like-minded friends.
On the twentieth day of the first month of the fourth year of Yuanfeng, Su Shi went to Qiting to visit his good friend Chen Yu, and a group of Su Shi's friends sent them, including Pan Da Lin, Gu Gengdao, Guo Yuan [gòu] and others, and the friends sent them to the Queen City East Zen Temple, and Su Shi was touched and wrote a seven-law poem. Fast forward a year, just the twentieth day of the first month, Su Shi and Pan Da Lin, Guo Shuo out of the city to step on the spring, came to the Queen City again, remembering the past of last year, Su Shi wrote this poem "The twentieth day of the first month with Pan and Guo Ersheng in the suburbs to find spring and remember last year was the same day to the Queen City to compose poems and rhymes".
This poem is not Su Shi's famous piece, but two of them are undoubtedly famous sentences throughout the ages, many people have heard it and will recite it, that is, "people are like Qiu Hong to have letters, things are like spring dreams without trace." So, what exactly does this poem Su Shi want to illustrate? Why do people resonate with these two poems? Let's start with the whole poem.
On the twentieth day of the first month, he and Pan and Guo Ersheng were born in the suburbs to find spring and remember that last year was the same day to the Queen's City to compose poems and rhymes
Su shi
Dongfeng refused to enter the East Gate, and the horse also went to the village. People are like Qiu Honglai has letters, and things are like spring dreams without a trace.
Three glasses of Jiangcheng liquor, wild old cang yan smiled warmly. It has been about every year for this meeting, so people do not need to give souls.
Caption: 1) "Pan Guo Ersheng" is Su Shi's friends Pan Da Lin and Guo Shuo when he was in Huangzhou, Pan Da Lin has a very famous sentence, called "full of wind and rain near Chongyang", this sentence also has a very interesting skill, interested friends may wish to find a reading; 2) "Queen City" for Huangzhou Prefecture zhidong fifteen miles of Yong'an City, commonly known as Queen City; 3) "and [hè] former rhyme" refers to the rhyme of the previous poem to compose poems; 4) This topic is slightly longer, if you add a punctuation seems to be better understood, for "the twentieth day of the first month, with Pan and Guo Ersheng, Going out of the countryside to look for spring, I remembered that last year was the day, and went to the Queen's City to write poems, which rhymed with the former."
Note: 1) yàn, refers to a very thick liquid.
The opening sentence introduces the reasons before and after this spring, "The east wind did not refuse to enter the east gate, and the horse also looked for the village of the year." On the twentieth day of the first month, the spring mood is not yet thick, so the people in the city cannot feel the spring wind, so Su Shi vividly said that the east wind is not willing to blow into the east gate, so the poets and friends meet in the suburbs to step on the spring, and this spring, similar to last year, is still the same friend, or the same place.
Then two novel and peculiar, is a famous sentence that has been passed down through the ages, Dongpo does not write the scene seen in the spring, but instead opens a stroke and directly says the aphorism: "People are like Qiu Hong to have letters, things are like spring dreams without a trace", this sentence came out, and the realm of this poem was immediately higher than a realm. After Dongpo experienced the Wutai poetry case, his heart became more pure and mature, so his feelings also became deep and philosophical. People are like migratory birds, according to the seasons of the north and south, never slackening off, however, this year's migratory birds are different from last year, the world's things change in an instant, everything is like a spring dream, leaving no trace.
People like migratory birds, is Dongpo in a pun, both to describe this year's "still looking for the old village" fact, but also to show the rush of life's cold and summer, but always belong to one place, but people are different from migratory birds, is life more complex, thoughts, experiences, past events, reality, everything is overwhelming, but, after a certain period of time, we look back at the past, we will find that the past is as unpredictable as a dream, so what we are experiencing now is not also a big dream? What are the traces of your existence in the world? "Life knows everywhere what it is like, it should be like Feihong stepping on the snow mud", Feihong stepping on the snow still has a trace of imprint, and at this moment, the eastern slope, further said "things are like spring dreams without traces", traceless, not born and not destroyed, what eunuch sea floats and sinks, what fame and wealth, are all vain, open and detached feelings, naturally self-evident. I always feel that if people experience the seven words of "things are like spring dreams without traces", life will be much happier and troubles will be reduced a lot.
Therefore, this seemingly wandering outside the whole poem, "people like Qiu Honglai has letters, things like spring dreams without a trace" is actually the key to the whole poem, and it is also the experience of the joy of spring on the eastern slope, and only then has the following transcendent and open-minded behavior. Dongpo said "Jiangcheng liquor three cups of salt, wild old cangyan a smile warm", the taste of mellow Jiangcheng liquor, smile warm wild old cangyan, this spring, I believe it goes without saying, readers have already felt how comfortable and beautiful. Su Shi is in Huangzhou, often negotiates and communicates with the farmer Ye Lao, works with them and eats together, there is no shelf of cultural celebrities, Su Shi is really too much for these!
The joy of landscapes, the love of friends, and the simplicity of the wild old can completely sweep away all the troubles of the past, and even the depreciation of Huangzhou has become much diluted, so Su Shi said at the end, "It has been about every year for this meeting, so people do not need to give souls." The implication is that Su Shi is saying that here, I have already set up an annual Spring Festival party with my friends, and all the deceased friends who care about me do not have to worry about my situation, nor do they have to worry about whether the imperial court has summoned me back to Beijing.
From the Wutai poetry case to the trip to Huangzhou, the impact on Su Shi's life is huge, many scholars say that Su Shi after Huangzhou is the real mature Su Shi, but also the culturally mature Su Shi, from his poetry in this period, we can also perceive this change. Therefore, Su Shi said that "the old man does not need to be given a soul", which is actually not a complaining rebuttal, but a real cry from Su Shi's heart, and it is also the indifference and broadness of his honor and disgrace after he matures.