As a Chinese, you must have read the following verses and even used them as signatures:
I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain. "Inscription on the Western Forest Wall"
Life is like a reverse journey, and I am also a pedestrian. "Linjiang Immortal • Send Money to Father Mu"
This place of peace is my hometown. "Fixing the Storm • The South China Sea Returns to Wang Dingguo's Servant Niang"
The taste of the world is refreshing. "Huanxi Sand, Drizzle and Slanting Wind as Dawn and Cold"
The willows on the branches blow and there is little, and there is no fragrant grass at the end of the world!
Bamboo canes and shoes are lighter than horses, who is afraid? "Fixing the Storm • Don't Listen to the Sound of the Forest Beating Leaves"
Or, you may have heard Faye Wong's song "I wish people a long time, thousands of miles together", tasted "Dongpo meat", and visited the beautiful scenery of West Lake "Su Causeway......
Many people don't know that they all point to a common name: Su Shi (Su Dongpo).
In 2023, CCTV will launch a treasure documentary about Su Shi "Fixing the Storm".
Focusing on the themes of poetry, calligraphy and painting, food, tourism, people's livelihood and other themes, Su Shi's ups and downs in his life were reviewed.
So that today's Chinese people can still get inspiration and strength from Su Shi's attitude towards the world.
Set the storm
Director: Deng Wu
Screenwriter: Zhang Hailong
Starring: Zhou Zhiqiang / Meng Man / Pu Cunxin / Mai Jia / Kang Hui
Nie Yuan / Zhang Tianyang / Liao Huijia / Yang Qiru / Li Jiale
Genre: Documentary
Premiere: 2023-07-31 (Chinese mainland)
Number of episodes: 5
Episode duration: 50 minutes
Su Shi in "Fixing the Storm" is played by Nie Yuan.
Mi Fu wrote an elegy to Su Shi described him as "square pupils are blue and beautiful like Gui"; Huang Tingjian said in "Mr. Dongpo really praises three songs" that he "eyebrows open and the moon is quiet"; Kong Wuzhong said in the poem "Su Zizhan because of the send" that "Huayan elders look strange, purple pupils and Ye Ye double eyebrows".
Nie Yuan's appearance basically conforms to these descriptions.
The 45-year-old Nie Yuan alone portrayed Su Shi from the age of 20 to middle and old age.
The heroic posture of the first career, the hardships of planning for the people, the despair of the Wutai poetry case, and the optimism and open-mindedness after being demoted......
Su Shi in every stage of his life has been played by Nie Yuan, and he can be called the best version of Su Shi.
The whole film has a total of 5 episodes, namely "The Story of the River", "The Story of Lakes and Mountains", "The Story of Capricorn", "The Story of the Hanging Pot" and "The Story of the Knot".
The beautiful photography has improved the viewing of the whole drama a lot, which is very suitable for the artistic conception of Su Shi's poems, and any screenshot can be used as a wallpaper.
In the impression of many people, Su Shi is a literary master who loves life.
However, in fact, his life was upside down, he was framed, he was belittled several times, and he suffered a lot.
It can be said that Su Shi's experience is enough to crush the body and mind on anyone-
He lost his mother at the age of 20, his wife at the age of 28, his father at the age of 29, he wanted to commit suicide by throwing himself into the water at the age of 42, he was demoted to Huangzhou at the age of 43, he lost his son Su Dun at the age of 48, he was demoted to Huizhou at the age of 57, and he was demoted to Hainan at the age of 60
However, Su Shi lived the highest state of life in the lowest life situation.
His optimism and open-mindedness continue to inspire people in the midst of a downturn.
In January 1037, Su Shi was born in Meishan, Meizhou (present-day Meishan, Sichuan), and two years later, his younger brother Su Zhe (1039-1112) was born.
Father Su Xun (1009-1066) named them "Su Shi" and "Su Zhe".
The original meaning of "Shi" is the handrail in front of the car, and the original meaning of "rut" is the trace of the wheel, which means that the two brothers should love each other and be indispensable to each other.
The father and son are called "Three Sus", and they are listed as the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties.
Su Shi showed extraordinary talent when he was very young, he studied at the age of 7, wrote articles at the age of 10, was a junior at the age of 21, and won the "first place in a century" in the subject examination at the age of 25.
At a young age, he became famous all over the world, won the appreciation of Renzong, and had a bright future.
People rushed to circulate his poems and articles, and even the Empress Dowager Cao of the current dynasty became his loyal fans.
The scenery is infinite, and it is the time when life must be happy.
At the age of 19, he also married the love of his life, 16-year-old Wang Fu.
Wang Fu is smart and humble, knowledgeable, and affectionate with Su Shi.
However, destiny is impermanent, Wang Fu died of illness at the age of 27, and Su Shi later wrote the moving "Jiangchengzi".
"Ten years of life and death, without thinking, unforgettable. Thousands of miles of lonely graves, nowhere to talk about desolation. It is to mourn his deceased wife Wang Fu.
Fate always seems to be playing tricks on Su Shi, and what was given to him had to be taken back one by one.
The highlight of your youth is fleeting. He has a frank temperament and is not suitable for complex officialdom.
During Wang Anshi's reform of the law, Su Shi not only offended the new party that advocated the reform of the law, but also offended the old party that opposed the reform.
In the old and new party disputes, both sides do not please, and attract the exclusion and framing of others.
He asked to go out of Beijing to take up a post, wanting to stay away from strife.
After that, Su Shi served in Hangzhou twice.
At that time, the West Lake had not been dredged for a long time, and more than half of it was silted up, and the lake gradually dried up, and the lake was overgrown with weeds, which seriously affected agricultural production.
So Su Shi led the people to dredge the West Lake.
He mobilized more than 200,000 migrant workers, expelled Fengtian, and restored the old view.
Concentrate the excavated silt and build a long causeway that runs through the West Lake, the embankment is connected by six bridges, so that pedestrians can be called, and the name of the descendants is called "Sugong Causeway", referred to as "Su Causeway".
In order to prevent silt accumulation and wild growth of aquatic weeds, Su Shi also came up with a clever plan to kill three birds with one stone: rent the lake on the shore to households to plant water chestnuts.
When planting water chestnut, the weeds in the water must be removed on time, so that the farmers can clean up the aquatic weeds in time to ensure that there is no more silt, second, they can collect the rent of the households and use the money for the renovation and maintenance of the West Lake, and third, they can solve the livelihood of some households.
After dredging the West Lake, Su Shi built three stone towers in the deepest part of the West Lake, and explicitly ordered that the water area from the Su Causeway to this should not be planted with water chestnut, and showed the siltation of the lake.
It formed the famous West Lake scenery "Three Pools and the Moon".
Su Shi once served as the governor of eight states and was the number one in the local area.
At that time, it was easy for him to do something, and he could gather resources from all over the state to do it.
However, when he was a prisoner of the rank of prisoner, he still tried his best to help the people.
When he was demoted to Huizhou, he even built two bridges (Dongxinqiao and Xixinqiao).
Huangzhou, Huizhou, and Danzhou, the three places where he was degraded, were still wild places in the Song Dynasty.
The arrival of Su Shi brought the fire of civilization to the three places.
In the documentary, Su Shi was commented on: "He can't see the suffering of the people in his eyes, he has always been a person who looks down with his eyes." ”
In Su Shi's eyes, there are no hateful people in the world, only poor people.
Everywhere Su Shi goes, every city he goes, he will try his best to help people in need.
It is this compassion that makes him loved by the people.
Where Su Shi served, there are still traces of local people commemorating him.
However, those who hated Su Shi in the court did not let him go.
In April of the second year of Yuanfeng (1079), Su Shi wrote a letter to Shenzong "Huzhou Xie Shangbiao", which was a routine, but Su Shi was a poet, and his pen was often emotional, even if it was an official article, it was also with a personal color, he said that he was "stupid and uncomfortable, and it was difficult to follow the new entry".
These words were exploited by the New Party, saying that he had "fooled the imperial court and was arrogant", and that he had satirized the government and was disloyal to the emperor.
On July 28, Su Shi was arrested and sent to Beijing, which was the famous "Wutai Poetry Case" in the Northern Song Dynasty.
The Wutai poetry case became a turning point in Su Shi's life.
Su Shi, who was imprisoned, was humiliated and tortured, so he had to be beaten into a trick.
Already preparing to commit suicide, he wrote a desperate poem "It is a green mountain that can bury bones, and he hurts his god alone in the rain on Chinese New Year's Eve."
Later, after many rescues, especially the persuasion of the Empress Dowager Cao, Shenzong was allowed to save Su Shi from death.
But Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou, and he was not allowed to intervene in official affairs, and he had nothing to do.
The 44-year-old Su Shi fell into a low point in his life, the scenery was no longer there, and even the source of livelihood became a problem.
His friend couldn't bear to see him living in poverty, so he applied to local officials to allocate a barracks on a gentle slope east of Huangzhou City to him for farming.
Su Shi gave himself the nickname of Dongpo layman, because he wanted to farm in Dongpo.
Since then, Su Shi has become Su Dongpo.
Su Shi, who first arrived in Huangzhou, was depressed, fell asleep all day, and only went out for a walk alone at night.
He wrote in "Fortune Operator: Huangzhou Dinghui Garden Residence": "Pick up all the cold branches and refuse to live, and the lonely sandbar is cold."
However, three years later, Su Shi's mentality changed.
made the famous "Dingfeng Bo Mo Listen to the Sound of Forests and Leaves".
"Bamboo canes and shoes are lighter than horses, who is afraid? ...... Looking back at the bleak place, there is no wind and rain and no sunshine. ”
When everyone else was running to avoid the rain, he was comfortable in the rain, walking slowly, a bamboo cane and a pair of straw sandals, lighter than riding a horse.
In his later years, Su Shi summed up his life in "Self-titled Portrait of Jinshan": "The heart is like a gray wood, and the body is like an untied boat." Ask Ru Ping's life achievements, Huangzhou, Huizhou, Danzhou. ”
Huangzhou, Huizhou, and Danzhou are all places where he was degraded and exiled.
Su Shi wrote more than 300 poems in his life, of which nearly 100 were written in Huangzhou, accounting for nearly 1/3 of his life's lyrics.
If he hadn't been demoted to Sanzhou, Su Shi would probably not have achieved his later literary achievements.
In the history of Chinese literature, Su Shi is a special existence.
He is not as otherworldly as Li Bai, nor is he as mindful of state affairs as Du Fu.
He once lived in the height of the temple and traveled far away in the rivers and lakes, and he has always stood on the storm in his life.
The documentary "Fixing the Storm" allows people today to see Su Dongpo through history, and gain the power to transcend adversity from his attitude towards life.
As the saying goes, "not afraid of the wind and rain when it comes, poetry and wine take advantage of the youth, and a cloud of smoke and rain is life." ”
We appreciate Li Bai and respect Du Fu, but the one we want to make friends with the most is Su Shi.
Because he is the person who walks with you and me in "life is like a reverse journey, and I am also a pedestrian".
*This article was written by RAMA