Su Rui and Su Shi have a very good relationship, we are familiar with the "Water Tune Song Head , When the Bright Moon Has" is Su Shi missed his brother Su Rui and composed a lot of poems for each other. Su Rui was in the Northern Song Dynasty, so what was the final fate of Su Ru? The Song Dynasty was a period of literary talents, so how did Su Rui behave in this context? What do we think of Su Rui?
A brief biography of Su Rui
Su Rui, Su Xun, and Su Shi are the three famous fathers and sons in the history of Northern Song literature, and are called "Three Sus". Su Rui (苏辙), also spelled Tongshu (同叔), was a famous writer, poet, and prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty. Su Rui and his father and brother and father's good friend Ouyang Xiu were the core figures of the Song Dynasty Ancient Literature Movement, Su Rui's life was deeply influenced by his father and brother, very good at political and historical theory, the three fathers and sons all wrote "The Theory of the Six Kingdoms", but Su Rui was famous for his prose.
Su Ru boat cruise
Su Rui was born in 1039, when Su Xun was 31 years old and Su Shi was 4 years old. In 1057, Su Rui and his father and brother went to Beijing together, Su Rui and Su Shi took the Ceremonial Examination, and the two of them were also listed as the sensational Jingshi of the three fathers and sons, and in April of the same year, due to the death of their mother, Su Rui and the three returned to Sichuan. In 1061, Su Rui took part in the temple examination and was sent to Shangzhou, where Su Ru stayed on the grounds that he needed to serve his father in the capital. In 1066, Su Xun died of illness, and Su Rui and the Su Shi brothers sent their father back to their hometown. In 1086, Su Zhi successively held the positions of Right Counselor, Yushi Zhongcheng, Shangshu Right Counselor, and Menxia Shilang, until 1094, when Song Zhezong began to appoint Li Qingchen and Su Rui was degraded, and met his brother Su Shi in Tengzhou, sending his brother to Hainan and then to Ruzhou. After Emperor Huizong of Song ascended the throne, Cai Jing was reused, Su Rui was demoted again, and finally The Prince of Etherzhong retired. In 1104, Su Rui settled in Yingchuan and was reinstated as a court official until 1112, when Su Rui died at the age of 74 and was buried next to Su Shi's tomb.
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How to evaluate Su Rui objectively
Su Rui's father and son have been affirmed in Zhu De's evaluation and in the evaluation of the literati of all generations, and the three fathers and sons of one discipline are all great literary heroes, which is a matter that has never been done before or after the ancients. Among the three fathers and sons, Su Rui was the one with a higher official position, but his political path was also not smooth, because he first opposed Wang Anshi's Qingmiao Law, and later opposed Sima Guang's Law of Service, and Su Rui's political views were always the opposite of those who were powerful at that time.
Portrait of Su Rui
The Song Dynasty, where Su Rui lived, was a dynasty favored by ancient intellectuals, because the Song Dynasty civilization was the heyday of Han civilization. The Song Dynasty, which began with Zhao Kuangyin, protected the intellectuals' right to speak to the greatest extent, so that su rui and other literati could leave their names in such a cultural environment. People generally think that Su Rui's personality is more introverted, not as sharp as his brother Su Shi, so Su Rui can achieve the position of right minister, but this is a one-sided view of Su Ru, Su Ru is also a fierce person, 22-year-old Su Ru was ostracized by the ministers of the DPRK because he attacked Song Renzong for not thinking of making progress, Su Ru's words were in danger of losing his life in any dynasty, but the generous Song Renzong did not blame him. Moreover, Su Rui also has the courage to put forward his own views on those controversial figures in history, and he believes that the existence of each character is characteristic of the times.
Su Rui's personality is the same as that of his brother Su Shi, but he is slightly more restrained than his brother Su Shi. Most of our understanding of the ancients comes from historical materials, so those who have high recognition can be remembered by us, and the evaluation of Su Rui by his brother Su Shi, just like what is said in the "Reply to Zhang Wen's Hidden Book", Su Rui is actually not inferior to himself, not that he is not good enough, but the average person does not know. Therefore, in the eyes of others, the elder brother Su Shi is much more talented than the younger brother Su Rui.