Author: Dai Ke, Source: Tang Poetry song poetry ancient poems (ID: tsgsc8)
01
When it comes to Su Rui, it may not be very clear to the average person. The widely circulated impression is: Isn't that Su Shi's younger brother? Because he did not know much, he knew very little about his poems and articles.
In our minds, Su Dongpo is our big star, but in fact, he is not only our idol, but also the idol of his younger brother Su Rui. Therefore, we may wish to get to know Su Shi, the "number one fan" - Su Ziyou from the standpoint of a fan.
In the second year of Jiayou, the three fathers and sons returned to their hometown to complete the funeral of Su Shi's mother, Cheng Shi, and rushed to Kyoto again. This time was different from the last time I came, when the two brothers were already in the middle. The mood also became different from before. Because the time spent on the boat was too leisurely, Dad took the lead in leading everyone to write poems:
The home boat sails thousands of miles fast, and the heart expects the capital to return for ten years.
Wuniu Mountain is like an arrow. Suddenly lost Emei pillow between the banquets.
Lao Su's poem not only contains the yearning for this time to enter Beijing, but also contains the bitterness of the first widowed wife. Immediately after that, the eldest son Su Shi also composed a poem:
Khotan, the west wind hunting painting.
The hometown is far away, and the past is boundless.
The jinshui is not seen, and the wild river is clear and pitiful.
Rushing over the Feet of the Buddha, the Vast River of Peace.
There are Zen guests in noshi, fishing platforms looking for twilight smoke.
The phase period is set to arrive first, and the water is babbling for a long time.
After a while, the poem of the younger brother Su Rui came out, and the content was very long:
Let go of the boat and think of Jingchu.
Drumming trees and two flags, the momentum is like an expedition.
People were on board one after another, and the urgency was beyond words.
……
Wash the ink to remove the residual ink, and the water is like a black mist.
To this day, the fish on the river have ink on the top.
Looking at the things of the ancients, this emptiness is self-suffering.
Yu Jinfang traveled south, and the morning and evening events sounded.
Until Chu is no longer there, go on the horse and go thousands of miles.
Whoever can dwell in the mountains will always be with the beasts.
Who is right and wrong in this matter, the line will be reviewed again.
The names of all three poems are called "Chu Fa Jia Zhou". Old Su's seven masterpieces are sighs that can only be felt with some personnel experience, and at present, the two sons can not understand. So just pull out the poems of these two brothers and look at them, you can't help but find that Su Shi's fresh and natural smell has been revealed, and his younger brother Su Rui has begun to worry about the wounds of the present and the past at a young age. This is obviously the difference between the two Sus, and it is also due to the personalities between them.
02
After arriving in the capital, the brothers took the examination for the system of science, and his father Lao Su was also awarded an official position. After that, his brother Su Shi went to Fengxiang in northern Shaanxi to sign the judgment, and Su Rui was appointed to Shangzhou as a military governor.
Compared with now, Shangluo at that time may not be a star and a half. Su Rui did not want to go, so he sent a table to the imperial court: Now my brother is gone. Our brothers always had to leave behind a life of caring for our old father. I'm still young and have a lot to learn, so let me stay.
In fact, he had already revealed this in the previous letter to Han Qi asking for recommendation, and now that he mentioned it again, the imperial court also agreed.
A few years later, the imperial court granted Su Rui the post of governor of the Daimyo Prefecture, and to put it bluntly, he was still an aide. After working for a while, the old father Su Xun died of illness, and Su Rui returned to his hometown for three years. By the time he came out again, the court had changed dramatically. Wang Anshi began to change the law.
Wang Anshi began to change the law, and the two of them arranged it well with Song Shenzong. At this time, the traditional defenders such as Sima Guang in the court also began to speak out against it. After Su Rui returned, he wrote an article that directly explained the problems in the transformation. Wang Anshi said, "What you said makes sense. After a period of reflection, he continued to implement the new law despite anyone's objections.
The story behind everyone knows, Su Rui and Su Shi brothers left the court one after another to serve as local officials. It's just that Su Shi's officials are relatively large, most of them are local leaders, while the officials of his younger brother Su Rui are relatively small, often such as the liquor supervisor, and the position of sesame green bean is also difficult to make a living. In his poem to Su Shi, he said:
In the past, in the construction of the city, salt wine was noisy day and night.
Xia Lu was afraid of the sky leaks, and winter thunder knew that the ground was biased.
My wife and children told me that Hu did not rebel against the old mountain.
When I came to the imperial court, I didn't know how to return it for seven years.
There are yujun built cities, and the old sayings are used.
- "Twenty Songs of Drinking by Ciyun Zizhan and Yuanming"
Su Rui's life at that time was quite bitter, there was no place to stay, only to live in two dilapidated wooden houses where people worked. Again by the river, the humidity and heat were unbearable, and his wife advised him not to go back to his hometown, but he still insisted. In these hard days, the poetry between the brothers was unusually high. This is actually a mutual encouragement between relatives. If there is no open-mindedness and open-mindedness of the older brother, then it may not be possible to achieve the younger brother's later career life; if there is no footstep of the younger brother's recognition, then the brother's road will not be so unscrupulous.
When Emperor Shenzong died and Empress Gao became regent, everything finally ushered in a turnaround.
03
In the following years, Su Rui's life began to usher in a highlight moment. First, he was promoted from the school secretary lang to the living lang, and then from the living lang to the Zhongshu Sheren, and then to the imperial history of the middle, the right of the shang shu, to the yuanyou for seven years, to become the door under the waiter. This was the largest official he had ever held, equivalent to a deputy prime minister.
In contrast, his brother Su Shi was so keen on being an official. After staying in the central government for a long time, he asked for a transfer to the local government. In a sense, this time it seems that Su Shi is more open to the political situation of the court. Because the old lady is old after all, she can't live long. After Emperor Zhezong took power, he set off a wave of Xi Ning's change of law. As a result, the Career of the Su Family Brothers began again. In fact, it can be seen from here that the opinions of the Su Shi brothers on politics have always coincided, and the so-called promotion is promoted together, and the degraded officials are degraded together, which is at most the difference between the previous second and the next second.
Then, the brothers began to sing poetry and harmony again. But then again, Su Rui was a little embarrassed to write. Because every time the poems are sung and sung, they use their own words to achieve the legend of their brother. It was hard to write a fairly good Mid-Autumn Festival, which was supposed to be published in a first-class publication and has been widely circulated ever since, but "When is the Bright Moon" came out, which immediately made this popular song into an aftersound.
With nostalgia, I wrote the next song "Brother Huai Shui Chi Sending Zi Zhan Brother", which is not bad overall. But in the brother's poem, "Life is everywhere like what it is, it should be like Feihong stepping on the slush." Occasionally left finger claws on the mud, Hongfei that recounted things. As soon as the sentence came out, the poem was immediately obscured. I had to hug Ziyu for a while: It's so hard to be Dongpo's younger brother!
Despite repeated blows, this did not hinder the feelings between the two brothers. On the contrary, they soothed more soul wounds because they had the resonance of poetry. When Su Shi was about to go to Danzhou, Su Rui came to bid farewell. As soon as they separated, Su Shi fell ill. In his poem to his brother, he says:
Time comes and goes, and the road is not over.
Do what you want with your son, and fall into the same hundred barbarians.
Sit in a glass and drink, stop the wine.
Although the road was not good, it was faintly seen.
From the present-day Dongpo Room, Du Kangqi was not established.
- "Hetao Stop Wine"
Su Shi said: "Dare to love my illness because of drinking." When Su Rui was young, he also said that his brother drank like Shan Jian and got drunk again every time after separation. This time, he was clearly told: It is time to quit drinking! Su Rui said:
Teenagers are not big, and the old repeats.
He said that he had lost his roots and died in a wine glass.
The non-wine stops, the rest really stops.
Floating from Kong Gong, riding the South China Sea.
Lu Feng was born in peace, and he smiled for thousands of years.
- "Ciyun Zizhan and Tao Gong ZhiJiu"
04
LeiZhou's farewell became the last time the Ersu brothers met in their lives. Later, Su Shi died of illness in Changzhou, and before dying, he still chanted: "My only regret is that I can't see ZiYu' side." "If there is affection in the sky, I am afraid that it will also be stormy for it."
Seven or eight years later, su rui lived in seclusion in Yingchuan, and Yingbin left the old man. Living a life that Su Dongpo never expected before his death. After planting wheat in the spring, swimming in the lake in the summer to enjoy the lotus, and when the autumn harvest comes, the grandchildren come together to help him harvest the wheat. In his poem, he writes:
If you want to harvest new wheat to succeed Chen Gu, you have your grandchildren to replace the old man.
Three nights of gloom and gloom, a sunny day dance next to each other.
The urgent cooking of large cakes to pay for hunger, Dobo village toiled hard.
The return of the closed temple is really a thing, and the poem is pitiful to the spirit of Ruzu.
- "Wen's grandson enters the village to harvest wheat"
It rained for a few days, and the wheat field was about to sprout. At this time, as soon as the sky cleared, the neighbors scrambled to beat the wheat. Ziyu's son was an official outside, and his grandchildren diligently helped him with his work. Even his grandson, who was not far away, came to help him harvest the wheat. The old man was very happy, made a flatbread, and took out the village wine he brewed to entertain his grandchildren. Wait until the wheat is deposited in the barn, close the door, and praise with relief: The children are amazing!
The whole poem presents a picture of the grandchildren helping to harvest the wheat to complete the harvest, the meaning is simple, fresh and pleasant, like the ordinary life in the countryside. Among them, there is no trace of the reason for the indignant and complaining son of that year. This really proves a sentence: After you leave, I will become you.
A few days later, his birthday arrived. The sons and students returned from thousands of miles away. Zi Yu arrogantly wrote a life diary:
Seventy years is a dream. Asahina's children and grandchildren. The sorrow is gone. The heart does not move. There are thousands of weights here.
Early years of articles for the world's use. Middle-aged Zen taste is suspicious. The stone tower was formed without a single crack. Who's with whom. Heaven on earth is sent by Him.
- "Fisherman's Pride and Doorman's Birthday"
In my opinion, it was the best word he had ever written in his life. Seventy years has been a dream. Perhaps at that time, he would also remember his brother's sentence: "The world is a big dream, and life is cold several times in autumn." "In the early years, I only thought about political affairs, and when I experienced the changes in the world, I wanted to jump out of the red dust and get close to the Buddha's path. And about these experiences, that person has realized it more than ten years earlier than himself!
Occasionally, he would also look through the old poems of the past in his spare time in the morning and evening, leaving behind a nostalgia and awareness of the past years.
In the early years, there were already poems, and it was only in the seventies that it was fully decayed.
Kaiji smiled like a dream, closed his eyes and thought about who it was.
The enemy is no longer there, and it is even more difficult to appreciate the sound of his day.
The old man didn't need to say much, a little bit of emptiness.
- "Reading Old Poems"
"Looking back on the years he passed, my poetry dominated the world, but I also lost my only confidant. I really miss the quiet years at that time, and the peace of mind! This is Su Rui's deepest affection for his brother in his later years.
-Author-
Kong Yao. Pen name Daiko. Love life, love literature, love poetry. A pure and simple literary and artistic youth; a red fan who is difficult to extricate himself; an ethereal ancient poetry writer!