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Do you have an interesting soul?

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If, ah, you were given a chance to travel back to the Tang and Song dynasties in an instant, you could choose a poet as a friend who traveled with you, who would you choose?

Mr. Yu Guangzhong gave his answer in a conversation: "If you want to travel, I don't want to be with Li Bai, he is irresponsible and has no sense of reality; with Du Fu, he is too bitter haha, I am afraid it is too serious; and Su Dongpo is very good, he can be a very good friend, he is a very interesting person."

Lin Yutang once had a very classic evaluation of Su Shi: Su Dongpo was an incorrigible optimist, a great humanitarian, a friend of the people, a great literary hero, a great calligrapher, an innovative painter, a wine-making experimenter, an engineer, a man who hated Puritanism, a yogi Buddhist, a giant Confucian politician, an emperor's secretary, a wine fairy, a generous judge, and a man who was politically rebellious. A night wanderer, a poet, a clown. But this is not enough to tell the whole story of Su Dongpo... Su Dongpo has more of a multifaceted genius's sense of richness, change, and humor than other Chinese poets, with excellent intelligence and a naïve heart—a mixture equal to jesus' so-called serpent wisdom plus the gentleness of a dove.

All in all Su Shi is a very interesting person.

We often hear it said that "good-looking skin bags are the same, interesting souls are one of a thousand". So what kind of interesting person is Su Shi, who is one of the thousands?

Talented. He was a famous literary scholar and painter, proficient in poetry, literature and painting, gentle and extravagant, and a master of all-round art, and it is said that he has thousands of works in existence.

Very humorous. Know how to laugh at yourself and be very funny, from beginning to end there is a child's heart, like a naughty child. Words and deeds are warm and understanding.

Grounded. Life is very simple and real, not only piano and chess calligraphy and painting, oil, salt sauce vinegar tea is also proficient. Especially he's a foodie. Mr. Dongpo must have several gods of food in his life, Dongpo meat and Dongpo elbow are his originals, and he still wants to eat a fish when he wants to eat a big disaster after the Wutai poetry case, which is simply an authentic foodie. Brain to make up the picture: "Soon to go to the execution ground, come a fish to eat first", it is really interesting!

Put it down. Very dashing and open-minded, optimistic, open to things, very transparent. He has been degraded three times, and after the hardships of life, he still maintains a positive attitude. Su Shi likes to use "huh" as the ending in his letters with friends, and many people think that "hehe" is a hot word on the Internet that modern people will use. In fact, Su Shi, who lived more than nine hundred years ago, was already very handy with the word, and it is said that "Hehe" appeared more than 40 times in his articles. He smiled and calmly handled it, which showed his straightforward and bold true temperament.

Then our curiosity has risen again, why is it that such a proficient, charming, and transparent and elegant Kuang Shiqi will encounter many unhappiness in his career? Will Su Shi also often have a lot of troubles?

The answer is yes! People always live in a three-dimensional world. To locate its own existence in the great era of time and space, to face the people in the same space of the same era of the same era, to deal with the things that must be solved in the current daily life.

Su Shi's debut is the peak, precisely because he is too smooth or direct to express his opinions, or as his red-faced confidant concubine Wang Chaoyun said, "a belly is not appropriate" and other reasons, the career twists and turns all the way down, three times was degraded, repeatedly defeated, and repeatedly defeated. He must have constantly adjusted his state of mind in the face of various setbacks, not indulging in the glory of the past and unable to extricate himself, nor deeply involved in the injustices of reality.

In psychology, one has an ego, an ego, and a superego. The original self is the embodiment of instinct, the self is the figurative positioning of the link with the world, and the superego is the cognition of the self from a higher level. Su Shi must have constantly upgraded and surpassed himself in the tribulations of life, and he can retract and relax freely, switch the thinking channel in a dashing manner, and show his heroic nature in the vicissitudes of the sea.

A few days ago, I wrote a small article on "impermanence and constantness", and this "May Day" allowed us to witness the unusual holiday again, and most people most people turned on the static mode with a high probability to jointly defend against the invisible virus with the naked eye, but they could not fight it. You can no longer walk around and eat as usual, nor can you reach the poetry and distance in your heart, you can only sit and eat at home or sleep and eat, and the mood is naturally helpless, pessimistic, negative, and bitter.

At this time, what we should learn most is Su Shi's positive and optimistic mentality and open-minded and transparent spirit, in the midst of difficulties, we can also find pleasure and make fun in suffering, open up a small paradise on the eastern slope in our own thoughts, sow the seeds of happiness, plant peaches and plums, and plant spring wind, so that the current days can be tasteful.

There is a saying, don't just pull the car with your head down, but also learn to look up at the road. We can also understand in reverse, if our immediate mission is only to pull the cart, then what is the point of us not focusing on taking every step in front of us, and looking around? There are also rhythms and movements in the daily life of the small steps...

Everything has a mission to come into this world, and everyone has an interesting soul living in their bodies. When you're anxious, try the dashing switch. "The mind has no obstacles, no obstacles, no terror." Open another door with the key of your mind, and maybe you'll meet this interesting soul of yourself.

One thought of the shocking waves lapping at the shore, the other thought of falling into the sea and the sky

I hope that everyone's turmoil will become a landscape because of their own calmness.

At this time, there is no wind or rain or sunshine

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