Every Chinese longs for a Su Dongpo to accompany them.
Yu Guangzhong said: "If you want to travel, I don't want to be with Li Bai, he is irresponsible and has no sense of reality; Du Fu is too bitter haha, I'm afraid it's too serious; but Su Dongpo can be a very good friend, he is really a very interesting person." ”
He will encourage you when you are frustrated: "Who is afraid? A rain of smoke and rain for a lifetime.". When you feel lonely, comfort you: "Life is like a reverse journey, I am also a pedestrian." ”
When you lament that the human world is not worth it, he will serve a bowl of Dongpo porridge and tell you with a smile: "The taste of the world is pure joy."
Lin Yutang said that Su Dongpo was a hopeless optimist. With his company, no matter how difficult life is, you can live happily.
He is not like Li Bai, the immortal ethereal, nor like Du Fu, who worries about the country, he is like every ordinary person, who has the troubles and pains of being a human being, but he can get liberation from the open view.
Thousands of years have passed, there are countless genius poets, only Su Dongpo, Chinese mention it, will warmly smile and say that I want to live like him.
Famous artists such as Lin Yutang and Wang Shuizhao have written "The Biography of Su Dongpo", hoping to find the secret of life from his tortuous life.
In the literary world, the biographies of authors with great fame and early publication are the most difficult to surpass.
But this "New Biography of Su Dongpo" broke the rules. It was published after Lin Yutang, but it was praised by "Su Dongpo's sorrow and joy, and he said it thoroughly".
Yu Qiuyu said that it was "a scholarly work with more elegant writing, which mostly allowed Su Shi to come from the life of Dao with his poetry, and the author's summary is very insightful." ”
The price of its old second-hand books has increased from 39.8 yuan to 1875 yuan, an increase of nearly 40 times!
▲The screenshot is the 2016 edition of Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House, which is now out of print.
The Douban score is as high as 9.6, ranking first in the history of Su Dongpo, and some people have read it more bluntly: "After death, please bury this book with me in the tomb, I will read it a thousand times."
Today, I will talk to you about this strange book and the story behind it.
The author of this "New Biography of Su Dongpo" is named Li Yibing, and his life is as bumpy and tortuous as Su Dongpo.
He lost his father at the age of 7 and became one of the few foreign geniuses at the age of 25, but was forced to drop out of school and flee until the age of 33 due to the outbreak of war.
After the war, he was framed again and faced 8 years in prison. However, when the verdict came down, he was not arrested for a long time, and he could have made a great achievement in his family for 16 years, during which he wrote a lot of books.
At the age of 56, Li Yibing thought that his life was stable, but he did not expect to be reported by his former friends and arrested and imprisoned.
▲ Reform and opening up Li Yibing and his wife revisited the West Lake
His son Li Yong later recalled: "The first time I went to visit my father at the Tucheng Detention Center, he asked me to buy a collection of Su Dongpo's poems. During his four years in prison, he memorized more than two thousand poems of Su's poems."
Framed, jailed... It was precisely the same circumstances that made Li Yibing feel sorry for Su Dongpo as if he had met a confidant. 4 years after his release from prison, this "New Biography of Su Dongpo", which lasted more than 700,000 words and lasted 8 years of painstaking efforts, came out.
It shows us the complete and true life of Su Dongpo, so that we can understand this "pleasant genius" and the life he is experiencing in the present.
Today, the extant manuscripts of the New Biography of Su Dongpo and the relics of Li Yibing are all treasured by the Meishan Sansu Memorial Hall.
As an anonymous writer, it is rare to receive this honor, but it also shows that this "New Biography of Su Dongpo" is indeed worth reading.
▲Sichuan Meishan Sansu Memorial Hall
This set of "New Biography of Su Dongpo" is divided into two volumes, with a total of 14 chapters. From the history of Shudi before Dongpo's birth to the changes in government after his death, they are all recorded one by one.
Therefore, not only Dongpo fans, but also history fans who are interested in song history can also read it.
The biggest difference from other Su Shi biographies, Li Yibing, while telling the life of Su Dongpo, restores the scene reason for the creation of each poem for us.
Poetry is Dongpo's love, his armor when he is frustrated, and the best entrance for us to touch his inner world.
After reading this set of books, you will know why Su Dongpo can write the deep feeling of "ten years of life and death, two vague, not thinking, and unforgettable"; and under what kind of situation, write a philosophical "people have sorrows and joys, and the moon has clouds and sunshine".
There is also his cute temperament of "having poured out the water of the panzi and looking for the junjia family to be crisp" to write poems to his friends to beg for food.
More than a thousand poems, each of which is a fragment of his soul, Li Yibing collected them into this biography, presenting us with Su Dongpo, who was displaced for half a lifetime and poetic.
Compared with the poetry collection, this set of books has both the fun of reading the text and the wonderful experience of appreciating poetry; compared with other Su Shi biographies, it allows us to understand a different Su Dongpo.
Even people who once had no feelings for Su Dongpo would be completely fascinated by him after watching it.
The most moving thing about this "New Biography of Su Dongpo" is that Li Yibing uses his own experience to reflect the interpretation of Dongpo's inner journey, and he interprets the three views of Su Dongpo's life.
Writer Zhang Huicheng said: "The Eastern Slope that Li Yibing saw was different from Lin Yutang's emergence and genius.
Instead, it is from bitterness to openness, from the relentless blows of reality one after another, to the eastern slope of strong will and resilience of life. ”
In Huangzhou, although Su Dongpo could find a lot of happiness, the pain did not go away. Li Yibing said: "Su Shi's pain is the oppression of time on him."
Yes, life is short, and there are too many things you want to do and want. When all this is intercepted by reality, there is nothing they can do to solve it, and anxiety and confusion occupy the heart, making people miserable.
Su Dongpo was eager to break free of these shackles, so he would be alone by the river in the middle of the night when he was drunk, and he would chant a sentence: "The boat has passed away from here, and the river and the sea will live for the rest of their lives."
In the book, Li Yibing uses extremely delicate and elegant writing to reproduce this scene, which is moving and unbearable to release.
In the midst of poverty and gloom, but able to live a life of fun and ease, Su Dongpo is not the first, nor the last, but the most vivid one.
This book is the spiritual book that we have entered the depths of Su Dongpo's heart, and it is also the book of wisdom that soothes the hearts of all people, constantly gives us the strength to move forward, and improves the pattern of vision.
Busy life, if you can have this book to accompany you, I believe that life is no longer difficult to pass, you can be calm, the heart is no longer lonely.
The first edition of "Su Dongpo's New Biography" was in 1983, forty years ago, during which it was out of print twice, and it was not until this year that this full new edition was published.
It re-edits the original text and includes two reminiscences, "Looking for Li Yibing" and "The Shadow of the Lonely Hong--Father and the New Biography of Su Dongpo", which gives us the privilege of understanding more of the stories behind this book.
At the front of each volume, there are precious color illustrations showing Su Dongpo's portraits and works, which is of great appreciation significance.
In addition, there is a specially customized "Su Shi Poetry Notebook" limited edition gift (while stocks last.)
According to the trajectory of Dongpo's life, the text is selected and arranged by the poems he wrote at different times and places. The right side is left blank for you to write down your own reading or poetry thoughts and thoughts, spanning thousands of years and resonating with Su Shi's thoughts and emotions, which is very wonderful.
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