Su Dongpo listened to the rain | during his hundred days in Wutai Prison

After being caught in Yushitai (commonly known as Wutai) Prison like catching a chicken and catching a wild dog, Su Shi thought that he might die in prison, so he wrote two poems to Su Rui. But fortunately, Su Shi was finally conditionally released and walked out of the prison door alive.

Later generations relished the happy ending, the deep brotherhood, and the oolong that happened when Su Shi was sent to prison, but few imagined how Su Shi spent the days of being investigated.

The Biography of Song Shi Su Shi is also written briefly:

"Yushi Liding, Shu Qi, and He Zhengchen praised their words, and the poems they had written were slanderous, and they were arrested and sent to Taiwan prison, wanting to put them to death, and exercising for a long time. Emperor Shenzong had no mercy on him and placed him as a deputy envoy of the Huangzhou Regiment. ”

In fact, Su Shi wrote at least four poems in prison, one each in Yushitai, one each of Yu, Huai, Bamboo, and Bai. He wrote: "The old garden has many rare trees, and the cypress is like a reed. The prisoner has no pleasure, and the hundred days are endless. This shows that during a hundred days or so in prison, during the wind, he carefully inspected the trees in the prison patio. In his mind, there was not only birth, departure, death, and farewell, but also elms, locusts, bamboo, and cypresses, and he carefully examined the trunks, bark, leaves, and seeds of trees, and also observed the cicadas and crows that perched on the trees. He turned his sorrow into hope: "Whoever says that frost and snow are bitter, and the business is not enough." Sit back and wait for the spring breeze to blow, flying ying to cover the empty house. He showed the interest of a naturalist gentleman in an unquenchable melancholy. He used literature to pin down and relieve, and to look at nature to dilute resentment and dispel sorrow.

When Wang Wei was caught by An Lushan, he also wrote a poem: "Ten thousand households are sad and have wild smoke, and a hundred officials are even more in the sky." In the autumn locust leaves falling into the empty palace, the head of the condensed bi pond plays the orchestra. ”

Words are the spice of their lives, and they are also the "ladder through the wall" for them to escape from the high wall through bitterness and hardship.

Socrates, who, like Sima Qian, could not afford to pay the ransom, did not escape the death penalty, and he published a "Plea" and then calmly drank the poisonous parsley juice. He washed himself away with facts and words, driving away the fear of death.

Churchill suffered from depression, and he said that when depression came, it was like a black dog that couldn't drive away was biting his brain with its sharp white teeth. In order to forget this pain, he wrote one thick book after another in addition to his intense work, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature many years later. After the dunkirk rout, he immersed himself in the text, deliberating and revising his speech over and over again.

Perhaps, many people have their own darkest moments in their lives. Life can not always be brilliant, colorful, sometimes it seems that pedestrians are stable, the sails are unharmed, and in an instant it has gone through the green mountains, but I don't know why the wind and rain have suddenly arrived, the trees have fallen, everything has come to an abrupt end, and the ambition has disappeared. It's unbelievable.

In Paine's words, this may be "a time to test the soul." In the face of great danger, it was like Han Xin who shouted loudly: "If you don't want it, the world cares?" What a chopper! Or argue with reason like Qu Tong, or plead like Lü Bu: "The public is a guest, and Bu is a prisoner of the order, why not say a word and be lenient?" "Nobody knows the answer.

We are not the characters in the Yaliang chapter of the "New Language of the World", they are often "unchanged in spirit" in the face of danger, or "I am not moving, I have no fear", or "my intentions and demeanor are not unusual". Perhaps, they are fearless, like Zhong Yuemin in "Blood Romance", always dashing and casual, because he still has reinforcements and retreats. We have nothing to lose, nothing to rely on, nothing to rely on, no Anthony's sharp mouth that twists and turns, no Li Mi's wonderful pen that moves the world, so we expand the uneasiness, amplify the worry, and mess up the square inches like Xu Shu.

Maybe what we can do is like Su Shi, like Wang Wei or Churchill, to face and solve in the way we are best at. When you have no choice, divert your attention. In times of inconceivable, maintain the lowest and final dignity.

The most difficult time in life is not waiting, not patience, not suffering, but patience and waiting in suffering. However, in the darkest hour, the Martian child can emit a light visible to the naked eye, breaking through the critical point, and atoms can even emit a light greater than the sun, as the song "Time" wrote:

"Time, people often compare you to fine wine, want to drink and enjoy. No, you should be the prey, I will hunt like a leopard. You should be the prey, and I will pounce like a goshawk. For time, you should bite hard, chew carefully, smash bones, suck blood; don't sneak into the stomach and intestines without tasting like drinking water. It should be like a heavy anchor sinking in the dark deep sea, squeezing out frivolous bubbles. Be like a horse galloping on the trail of the night, and the silver hooves step out of Mars. ”

"Like a horse galloping on the trail of the night, the silver hooves stepping out of Mars." Perhaps, this is the brightest color of life.

"Listen to the Rain" column call for papers

Educating people, how long have you not seriously read life? Have you ever touched the "grass and trees of the world"? Have you ever noticed the "father's back"? Have you ever had "autumn nostalgia"? Can you ever feel "small willingness" and "small reunion"... We taste life in texts, in books, in film and television dramas, do we feel and think about real life?

Real life has its own power. Give you the gift of fate or give you the mountains of the times, give you clouds or give you a wrong way, send you small luck and also give small bumps. "Life is education", educators have mentioned This sentence of Tao Xingzhi countless times, but have you really listened to the true meaning left by life? What kind of touches, impacts and reflections has it given you?

"Educator" New Media will open a "Listen to the Rain" column from now on. The sound of the wind and rain is in our ears, and those real life stories and life insights are handed over to us to listen carefully. It is not necessary to be limited to "education", social changes, world affairs, and everything and one scene can be included in the text. Leave a memorial for your own life, leave a reflection for others, and open a window for students in the ivory tower to truly contact society and understand life.

Teachers, principals, and students are welcome to submit essays, and the genre is mainly essays and essays, and the mailbox [email protected].

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Source | This article is original by the Educator of the Illuminati Society

Author | Gan Zhengqi, deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Committee for the Promotion of Democracy of the China Association for the Promotion of Democracy, and a master of law

Design | Zhu Qiang

Co-ordination | Zhou Caili

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