Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the grass is green. The evening wind blows the willow flute, and the sunset is outside the mountain.
The end of the sky, the corner of the earth, the knowledge of the half-scattered. A pot of turbid wine is all over the place, don't dream cold tonight.
Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the grass is green. Ask the jun when to come here, and when he comes, don't linger.
The end of the sky, the corner of the earth, the knowledge of the half-scattered. Life is rare to have a happy gathering, but there is no separation.
Mention Li Shutong, people will think of this classic song "Farewell". He is known as the prodigy of modern Chinese history, proficient in calligraphy, poetry, and rhythm. Stepping into the empty gate in his thirties, he was regarded by Buddhist disciples as the eleventh generation ancestor of the Vinaya, and he was Master Hongyi——— Li Shutong.
On October 23, 1880, Li Shutong was born in Li Zhai, Hebei District, Tianjin. According to legend, when Uncle Li was born, there were magpies with pine branches flying into the delivery room, and the Li family believed in Buddhism, and everyone thought that they were auspicious signs. Li Shutong carried this pine branch with him all the time and never left his body.
The Li family is a wealthy businessman in Tianjin. Grandfather Li Yue, originally from Pinghu, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, after the family moved to Tianjin, running the salt industry and Qianzhuang, his father Li Shizhen was 32 years old, the first jinshi in 1865, once with Li Hongzhang, Wu Rulun three people known as the "three great talents of the Qing Dynasty", and li Hongzhang's personal friendship is unusual. Later, his father Li Shizhen was not accustomed to the shady scenes of the official field, so he resigned from the government to do business and ran a family business, and eventually became a huge wealth in Tianjin.
The Li family is rich, because the family believes in Buddhism, and his father Li Shizhen is kind and charitable, and the local people call him "Li Shanren". However, the great Li family is not very prosperous, the father Li Shizhen is a single lineage, before Li Shutong was born, originally had two older brothers, but his eldest brother died before he became an adult, and the remaining second brother was weak and sickly. The incense of the Li family made Li Shizhen very worried. In order to continue the incense, Li Shizhen, who is in his sixties, married 19-year-old Wang Fengling. The following year, Li Shutong was born, and at this time Li's father was sixty-eight years old. Father Li was extremely happy when he was old and had a son. The young Uncle Li grew up happily under the protection of his father. However, when Uncle Li was five years old, his father left him young due to illness.
The father dies and the eldest man is the father. After the death of his father, the second brother became the successor of the family. In the society at that time, the status of concubines in the courtyard of the deep house was very low, and Li Shutong, who was born in a concubine room, naturally could not compare with the identity of the second brother, who always looked high on weekdays, and the serious feudal patriarchal style, as well as the suffocating atmosphere of the feudal family, made Li Shutong feel extremely disgusted.
After the death of her father Li Shizhen, the young mother not only had to bear the situation of being widowed at a young age, but the contempt and criticism from the clan made Uncle Li and his mother and son breathless.
In order to relieve the depression in her heart, Li Shutong's mother often took Li Shutong to the pear garden to watch a play. At first, the young Uncle Li looked at the people on the stage, writhing and twisting, not knowing what to do. Just thinking it was funny, he often followed his mother.
Slowly, Li Shutong seemed to see some doorways, and finally, he was fascinated by opera. Back at home, Li Shutong even remembered the whole folded drama content. Find the flower cloth in the house and fiddle with the characters in the play.
Slowly, rumors spread throughout the Li family compound. People often talk about it behind their backs:
"Look at this child, what is not good to learn, but to learn drama!"
"Where there is a mother, there must be a son!" You see his mother-in-law, running to the theater garden at both ends for three days, and it is strange that the child does not learn to be bad! ”
"Whoever is a maid can raise a good son!"
"We have to tell our boy to stay away from Sanlang's child!" Don't let him spoil our boy! ”
Hearing the gossip, Wang Shi's already depressed heart was even more depressed. After a few days, the second brother in the family also began to publicly blame the Wang family for conniving with Li Shutong, staying in the pear garden all day and delaying his studies. In order to avoid the white eyes of everyone, and for the sake of Li Shutong's future, she decided to lead by example, make up her mind, endure the pain of quitting drama addiction, and never go to the theater garden again; At the same time, He strictly ordered Sanlang to study hard and not to go to the theater in the future.
His mother strictly ordered and his second brother strictly prohibited it, and Li Shutong had to obediently put away his heart. But how could Li Shutong, who was deeply in love with opera, give up so easily.
In order to be able to go to the pear garden to watch the play, Li Shutong began to skip class to go to the pear garden. Finally, one day, the gentleman of Changyun ZhuangJiaguan came to the door. Knowing that Li Shutong skipped class in order to go to the pear garden to watch a play, his mother Wang Shi was very sad. Humble self, every day to do small things. She didn't have too many requirements, she just wanted Li Shutong to study well, and when he grew up, he could get a meritorious name and shine on the lintel.
And now, Li Shutong actually did not go to class in order to watch the play, which made his mother Wang Shi very sad. The more she thought about it, the more angry she became, the more sad she thought about it, the more desperate she became. In order to prevent her son from going farther and farther on the road of infatuation, in order to make his son repent, she felt the rat poison hidden under the bed and swallowed it.
On this day, when Li Shutong walked into the door, he saw his mother spitting white foam, collapsing in the room, unconscious, and hurriedly called the second brother and everyone, everyone was busy, and finally pulled her back from the "ghost door". After this incident, Li Shutong vowed to devote himself to studying from now on and never set foot in the theater garden for half a step.
After the silent Li Shutong saw the cold of this world, a rebellious heart gradually revealed. Survive in cold eyes and whimpers. Uncle Li was indignant in his heart, but there was nothing he could do, although he lived a carefree life, Li Shutong always felt "inferior" in the Li family, and at the age of 15, he issued a feeling:
"Life is like the western mountain moon, and wealth is like frost on the grass."
In this way, after a few years of calm and calm, Li Shutong was 17 years old, and he had been admitted to Wenchangyuan Furen Academy from Changyun Zhuangjiaguan. The biggest advantage of entering Fu Jen College is that he is free from the surveillance of his second brother and mother and gains greater freedom. One day, Li Shutong was walking on the way out of school when he overheard a newspaper boy running by with a stack of newspapers in his hand.
Li Shutong stopped the newspaper boy, bought a newspaper, and a poster on the newspaper deeply attracted him, yang Cuixi in the photo, cardamom nianhua, teeth Hao blush, autumn waves flowing, and beautiful and beautiful. In the painting is Yang Cuixi, the first horned ——— in Tianjin
Li Shutong was stunned, and a strange feeling crept into his heart, an experience he had never had before. The urge to go to the pear orchard was hooked again.
At this time, Li Shutong is no longer the child who used to follow his mother. Today, he is already an adult with his own ideas. The warning to his mother was still heard, but the urge to go to the pear garden defeated Li Shutong.
Since then, going to Pear Garden to watch Yang Cuixi sing has become Li Shutong's daily homework. As long as it is Yang Cuixi, he will come to every scene and cheer for her. Slowly, Li Shutong fell in love with Yang Cuixi, who sang on stage. Yang Cuixi on the stage also found Li Shutong. His difference left a deep impression on Yang Cuixi.
One day, Yang Cuixi, who finished singing, was removing makeup offstage, and today, she saw Li Shutong again, and Yang Cuixi was full of Li Shutong's eyes at this time. At this time, someone came to her side and whispered, "Cuixi, there is a person who wants to see you." After Yang Cuixi listened, there was no expression on his face: "No! Yang Cuixi didn't want to see anyone, there were too many people to deal with every day, and now she was physically and mentally exhausted.
The pear garden is scattered, people go to the empty building, compared with the lively scene just now, it is particularly deserted, and it can even be said to be a little desolate. Yang Cuixi was now alone at the door of the pear garden, and a trace of loneliness surged into his heart.
Suddenly, a very generous voice came over softly: "Miss Yang, I am Li Shutong, just now I asked to see." Yang Cuixi was surprised, and he was happy, it was him, it was actually him! In this way, the two people changed from stage to confidant.
Yang Cuixi
In the days that followed, Li Shutong was still as usual, Yang Cuixi's plays, every scene must come. Only now, he has one more job, the pear garden is scattered, and when people go to the empty building, send Yang Cuixi home. Slowly, the two hearts slowly approached, and feelings gradually arose in the heart.
Li Shutong, who had just experienced love, was trapped in it and could not extricate himself. In Li Shutong's heart, Yang Cuixi is the lifelong partner he is looking for, and he wants to spend his life with her.
Once, Li Shutong had something to do in Shanghai, a short separation, Li Shutong did not stop thinking of Yang Cuixi, during his time in Shanghai, in order to express his thoughts of Yang Cuixi, he sent Yang Cuixi two poems "Bodhisattva Man", expressing his pain of lovesickness.
One
The flowers on Yanzhi Mountain are like snow, and the people under Yanzhi Mountain are like the moon;
The forehead is green and cloudy, and the eyebrows are bent lightly.
After the sunset and light rain, the bottom of the leaves is thin in autumn;
Afraid of small words, sad and impatient.
Second
The evening wind is powerless to hang yang tender, and the eyes forget the gossamer green;
The wine woke up at the bottom of the moon, and Jiangnan Du Yu cried.
The soul of the demented soul is twisted, willing to wear flowers and butterflies;
The outside of the curtain is shaded by flowers, and the dream is dipped towards the incense.
Sincere love, at this time, Li Shutong was eager to fly back to Tianjin immediately and accompany his goddess.
However, another Uncle Li and Wanwan did not expect that his own infatuation would reap infinite sadness. When he returned to Tianjin from abroad, Yang Cuixi had already gone to the Wang Ye Mansion. Li Shutong was heartbroken, but he had no choice but to send his first love goodbye.
Although Yang Cuixi left, Li Shutong's heart still remained on the stage where it used to be, and he was depressed all day. Mother Wang Shi saw that her son was trapped by love, and she was afraid that Uncle Li would be trapped in it with herself, what to do if she did something stupid! How should I explain it to my deceased husband?
Wang finally came up with a way to forget one relationship, and stepping into another relationship is a quick way.
The Wang clan found Li Shutong the daughter of a businessman with the same prominent family, Yu Shi. Yu's knowledge of Dali, the two families are right, the only contradiction is that Li Shutong does not like it.
But Li Shutong still agreed to the marriage. Because his second brother promised him that as long as he married Yu Shi, he could give 300,000 family property to Li Shutong to go out and set up his own portal. In order not to let his mother not be in the Li family's heart, and in order to let him escape from the shackles of the Li family, he agreed to this deal. Through a wedding deal, he finally bid farewell to the big feudal family that made him less comfortable. In Li Shutong's heart, his love is dead, and now as long as his mother is satisfied, everything is OKAY.
On October 23, 1897, the Li family compound was illuminated and bustling. Mother Wang and second brother are busy with uncle Li's wedding. However, Li Shutong, who was a bridegroom, was like a wooden chicken at this time, and there was no one around, as if this grand and grand scene had nothing to do with himself.
In Uncle Li's heart, except for Yang Cuixi, there was no room for other women. Her departure took away all the love that Uncle Li had with him. Although he has no feelings for Yu, he does not want to disobey his mother's arrangement. Because now, his mother was the only person he cared about.
After the Sino-Japanese War, China became a fish on the chopping board, ready to be slaughtered. The grand opening of the restoration and reform of the law, the reform and change of the law movement has just begun, Li Shutong is very concerned. He carved a seal of "Nanhai Kangjun is my master" and publicly expressed his support for Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao. However, after only 103 days, the "Pengshu Reform Law" was declared a failure, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao fled to France and Japan respectively, and Tan Si and the six gentlemen of Wushu were bloody and vegetable market mouths. Li Shutong, who was in Tianjin, was suspected of being a Kangliang party member, implicated, and had to flee to Shanghai.
In October of that year, Li Shutong, his mother and wife moved south to Shanghai, rented a house in the Bu neighborhood of the French Concession, and changed his name to Li Shucang. The atmosphere of freedom in Shanghai made Li Shutong feel comfortable. He quickly integrated into the local cultural circle and joined the Seongnam Bunka Society. Uncle Li became a regular visitor here, exchanging poetry with his friends. It soon attracted the attention of the Cultural Society and all walks of life in Shanghai. The newspaper reads in bold letters:
Twenty articles shocked the sea, ancient and modern wizards Li Shu tube.
When Li Shutong first arrived in Shanghai, he attracted the attention of Xu Xianyuan because of his outstanding talent, and invited Li Shutong to come to his home as a guest. The conversation was cheerful and pleasant, and both had the feeling of seeing each other and hating each other, and from then on, the two became close friends.
The love between his friend Xu Xianyuan and his wife made Li Shutong envious, and Song Mengxian was a famous talented woman. When he was 18 years old, he married Xu Xianyuan as his wife, and the two people had similar feelings and similar interests, and had the reputation of "Shanghai Shuangbi". Thinking of his own emotional world, the helplessness in his heart is not told.
In the spring of 1900, Xu Xianyuan invited Uncle Li's family to live in the Caotang in the south of the city. The warm invitation of friends, Li Shutong is not easy to shirk. Uncle Li immediately came to the Chengnan Caotang with his mother, wife and children. Life in the caotang is very comfortable, and Li Shutong has more exchanges with literati and celebrities. Coupled with the good friend's wife Song Mengxian and her mother very chatty, which gave a lot of comfort to the Wang clan who had endured loneliness for many years, Song Mengxian's body has always been not very good, often sick, and the Wang clan in the grass hall in the south of the city often adjusts her body and regards Song Mengxian as her own.
Because of this, in Li Shutong's heart, he has always regarded Song Mengxian as his sister. In 1902, Song Mengxian died of illness at the age of 26, and Uncle Li felt desolate in his heart. Shortly before that, in 1899, Uncle Li died with his eldest son Hulu, and the 20-year-old Li Shutong was very sad. One thing after another came unexpectedly, and Li Shutong, who was already lonely, was even more silent and quiet.
In 1905, when his mother died of illness, Li Shutong was going out to choose the most expensive coffin for his mother, so the last side of his mother's death was not seen, and Li Shutong, who returned home, cried with compassion.
He broke the rules of the world and held a different funeral for his mother. When he was mourning, he also played the piano and sang lamentations in front of everyone. The death of his mother was also a relief for Li Shutong, and he had no worries about it from then on. He bid farewell to his mother and to a family he did not like. Finally became a lone passerby.
The death of his mother, in addition to bringing him great pain, also ripped off the last trace of nostalgia and hesitation. After sending his mother's coffin back to Tianjin, Li Shutong traveled to Japan to study art. In 1906, Li Shutong was admitted to the Ueno Art School in Tokyo, specializing in oil painting. At this time, Li Shutong no longer had the sharp edge of the past, and he integrated all his talents into his paintings.
In a foreign country, Li Shutong met his last love in the world. Her name is Makoto, the daughter of Uncle Lee and a Japanese landlord. One day, Li Shutong suddenly called Makoto to live in, and Makoto thought that Li Shutong would court her, but Makoto did not expect that Li Shutong asked her to help find a model and help him complete his homework. Hearing this, Makoto was sad and angry, and turned around and left Li Shutong's residence.
Soon after, Makoto came to Li Shutong's residence again, and this time, Makoto decided to model for Li Shutong herself. Li Shutong said to Makoto, "Maybe I can already see from my eyes and actions that I like you, and I like it deep into the bone marrow." Uncle Li confessed to Makoto that he already had a wife in China, but Makoto did not care. The two married a foreign couple. It is rumored that the woman in Uncle Li's painting with the nude woman is Makoto.
In 1911, Li Shutong returned to the motherland with Chengzi, the domestic revolution broke out completely, and at this time, the Li family was already withered and on the verge of bankruptcy, and Li Shutong was very calm. He had long been accustomed to a life of solemn indifference, as if all the worldly things had been cut off as early as the time of his mother's death. He packed his bags and came to the South to begin his teaching career.
One winter night in 1914, his former friend Xu Xianyuan knocked on The door of Li Shutong's room. Xu Xianyuan did not enter the house, but said through the door: "Uncle Tong, I am bankrupt, you take more care!" As soon as the words stopped, Xu Xianyuan turned and left. Uncle Li watched silently as his former friend disappeared into the winter night.
Back in the room, Li Shutong wrote down the farewell song that has been handed down to this day.
The grass is blue, and the evening wind blows the willow flute to the corner of the mountain outside the sunset mountain.
Knowing that the friendship is half scattered, a pot of turbid wine is toasted to joy, and this evening do not dream cold.
In 1918, after Li Shutong bid farewell to his Japanese wife Makoto, Li Shutong completely cut off all the past in the world, was formally ordained, escaped into the empty gate, and worshiped Master Yinguang as his teacher. After that, there was no li shutong in the world, only Master Hongyi.
After Li Shutong got married, the Japanese wife was very sad, and repeatedly went to the temple to see him, Master Hongyi avoided seeing him, and then one morning on the lake of the West Lake, he finally saw her husband's wife and said: Shu Tong! "Please call me Koichi". His Japanese wife, Makoto, was in tears at this moment, silent for a long time, and looked up and asked, "Master Koichi, please tell me what love is?" "Love is compassion" was said, and each turned away, never looking back. The next day, Seiko returned to Japan and disappeared.
Li Shutong, who escaped into the empty door, slowly cut off the worldly contact, ate only one meal a day, except for leaving a small amount of clothing and umbrellas, he gave up everything in the world. A monk's robe has been sewn and patched for more than ten years, and the pudding is still a rag strip that has been picked up from the garbage heap.
In the autumn of 1942, perhaps anticipating his own death, Master Hongyi wrote his will in advance, fasted, refused medical visits, recited the Buddha number, and wrote down the words "Intersection of Sorrow and Joy". This time the master finally left this troublesome earthly world.
Most of us are constantly repeating similar lives, but Master Hongyi's life is constantly waving goodbye to the past, and then walking forward without turning his head. Inevitably, it is also a kind of freedom!
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