983 years ago, January 1037 AD.
Penglao Mountain in Meishan, Sichuan Province, has a hundred flowers, the grass and trees wither, birds fly high, and wild animals go away. A beautiful mountain suddenly became a barren land.
Years later, the villagers of Meishan suddenly realized.
It turned out that this year, a great genius who was not born was born in the local area. Peng Laoshan's spirit qi was uniquely in him, and this strange phenomenon appeared.
You see, even folklore has to endorse his greatness.
This man was Su Shi, a native of Meishan, born on January 8, 1037. The favorite idol of the most beloved Jun, there is no one.
In Su Shi's life, there were more adversities than favorable circumstances, and more suffering than ease. But everything was casually reversed by him, and in the time of talking and laughing, he had cultivated into an unswerving optimist until death.
Su Shi traveled widely, and according to scholars' statistics, his circle of friends had nearly a thousand friends.
He himself once said proudly: "I can accompany the Jade Emperor on the top, and I can accompany the beggars in the BeitianYuan, and there is no bad person in the world." ”
But are the friends he met and made in his life really good people? Didn't he block or delete anyone?
His former best friend Zhang Huan and his lifelong close friend Wang Gong eventually played a different role in Su Shi's circle of friends.
Make friends, the same three views are always the first. This is what Su Shi is going to tell us.
Screenshot of the documentary "Su Dongpo"
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You have friends, I have friends. However, the gold content of friends is different from that of friends.
Some friends only woke up drunk when they were drunk and their brothers couldn't even remember their names. Some friends only fell when they were rich and prosperous, and their friends all suffered from amnesia. Some friends are only worth fifty cents and sell you without a piece.
There are also friends who can share hardships and hardships, but cannot be rich and noble.
There are many kinds of friends of Su Shi, and Zhang Wei is undoubtedly the most special of them.
Chapter
Zhang Huan is a native of Fujian and is two years older than Su Shi. They all took the imperial examination in the second year of Jiayou (1057), and they were all cattle people, so they were all admitted.
However, zhang Huan saw that his nephew Zhang Heng's ranking was better than his, and a bullish force of not accepting defeat forced him to retake the exam two years later. As a result, I passed the exam again and got a first class. Only then did he go to the official contentment.
At that time, Su Shi and Zhang Wei were very young, and they felt sorry for each other, and they were very happy with each other, and they became friends of Mo Rebellion.
Su Shi later recalled in a letter to Zhang Wei: The first time I saw you, I was stunned, and whenever I said, "Zi Hou (Zhang Zi Hou Zi Hou) is a great man, he is a generation of strangers, and as for the meritorious generals, they are the rest of the things."
Su Shi's temperament is very straight, and he has never learned to flatter in his lifetime, and he is sincere and heartfelt in his praise.
At that time, the two almost did not say anything, and they were in love with each other.
The Song people's notes record that one day, Zhang Huan was lying on his stomach, and when he saw Su Shi coming, he touched his stomach and asked Su Shi: "What do you say is all in here?" ”
Su Shi said: "It is all a family affair of rebellion. ”
Zhang Wei laughed.
Many years later, Su Shi did the same, touching his belly and asking his concubine Chaoyun the same question.
Even the words "conspiracy" that can cause people to death have been said, which shows that the relationship between the two is extraordinary.
The deeper they joined the WTO, the greater the differences in political views between the two men. Su Shi was placed in the camp of Sima Guang, who was the old party, and Zhang Huan was Wang Anshi's iron fan, belonging to the new party.
The friendship boat of the two faces a test.
Friends are like clothes, and fame is like siblings. Su Shi experienced it quickly.
When the Wutai poetry case occurred, many people saw Su Shi again like they had seen the plague god, and they avoided it. Su Shi was also very "sensible" and took the initiative to cut off contacts with others, "although he was close to his flesh and blood, he refused to have a word of contact."
Zhang's performance is definitely worthy of their friendship. He not only did not fear gossip and cold words, wrote letters to comfort Su Shi, but also gave Su Shi a lot of help to solve his difficulties.
The chancellor Wang Jue repeatedly took out the word "stinging dragon" in Su Shi's poems and instigated Song Shenzong to rule Su Shi's crime of "not being a subject". Zhang Wei argued on the basis of reason, accusing Wang Jue: "Do you want to overthrow the entire family of others?" ”
Wang Jue argued, "I am just relaying Shu Qi's words. ”
Zhang Wei sneered, "You also eat Shu Qi's spit?" ”
Zhang Huan's friendship and help made Su Shi very moved. In the days of imprisonment and exile for the first time, he repeatedly lamented the coldness of the world: those who killed you in those years would not cry for you when you fell, and Zhang Huan was really a clear stream in the world.
However, I am afraid that even the two of them could not imagine that this period of suffering and acquaintance had become a return to their innocent friendship.
Since then, as the new and old parties have taken turns to gain momentum, two people with different political stances have become involved in it, and they have become deeper and deeper, and the evil has become like passers-by.
Come on, hurt each other.
This was the state of the two of them, even though they were in the political whirlpool and often had to.
In the first year of Shao Sheng (1095), Zhang Huan worshiped Xiang and reached the peak of his personal career.
At this time, Zhang Wei originally had enough power to repair the relationship between the two, but he did not have this belly.
Instead of doing so, he intensified his efforts and wanted to put Su Shi to death. In just two years, Su Shi was degraded again and again, until the end of the world.
This time, Yuan who dealt a particularly heavy blow to Su Shi. When Su Shi arrived in Hainan, the first thing he did was to make a coffin for himself.
Insert two knives for friends, and insert two knives for friends. At that time, the clear stream in Su Shi's eyes had long since merged with the world, and it had become a mud and rock flow to him.
After Emperor Huizong of Song ascended to the throne, it was Zhang Huan's turn to be unlucky. Zhang Huan was relegated to Leizhou and almost crossed the sea.
Su Shi, who lived for the rest of his life, showed his strength.
He asked Zhang Yuan, the son of Zhang Huan, to tell his father to take care of his body.
Maybe it wasn't the two of them' fault before. Allowing politics to intervene indefinitely in their personal friendships is the greatest mistake.
Su Shi said that he and Zhang Weiding had been friends for forty years, "although the sources in the middle are slightly different, the friendship has not increased or damaged."
Yes, Su Shi acknowledged and remembered his friendship with Zhang Huan until his death. As for the political differences between the two men, the persecution that they once persecuted was all understated. None of this matters compared to friends.
Meet each other and laugh and hate.
It's just that they don't have a chance to meet again.
About half a year after Zhang Huan was demoted to Leizhou, Su Shi died in Changzhou.
Documentary "Su Dongpo"
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A person's life is short and long, so long that it can be divided into many stages.
At these different stages of life, we meet different people.
In middle school, we would meet friends who played football together and traveled together, and when we went to college, these playmates rarely interacted. When we were in college, we would meet brothers who slept on the top bunk, brothers who soaked in the library and watched beautiful women together, and when they graduated, many people scattered and scattered...
In different cities, different work units, there are also new friends who have been very close, but these close friends, as we change cities and jobs, have less and less contact, and slowly become an avatar in WeChat.
Think about it carefully, more than 90% of the friends in your and my life are not all stage friends?
However, there are always three or five close friends in life, destined for life from the moment they make friends, even more secure than marriage.
No matter where they are with each other, no matter whether they are down or developed, they don't have to stick together, they don't need to be deliberately maintained, your connection is always there.
To borrow money, a phone call; very tangled, WeChat spit; want to make an appointment, play a fly. No politeness, no need to be wordy, it is so simple and spontaneous.
For Su Shi, this lifelong close friend was Wang Gong.
Wang Gong
Wang Gong was born into a famous family, and his grandfather Wang Dan and father Wang Su were both high-ranking officials. He was also the son-in-law of Su Shi's mentor Zhang Fangping.
However, even if the background is so hard, Wang Gong is still not obvious all his life. This has to do with the fact that he is more aggressive and speaks too straight. Anyway, every time the opportunity came, the new official took office, the ass was not hot, and the officials of the Great Song Dynasty took him to the knife.
Wang Gong was so depressed, Su Shi actually bore part of the responsibility.
In the Wutaishi case, a total of 24 people were punished, the most tragic of which was Wang Gong.
Su Shicai was relegated to Huangzhou (黄州, in modern Huanggang, Hubei), and he was only implicated, and was suddenly demoted to Pennsylvania (present-day Binyang, Guangxi).
Su Shi was very distressed by this, and said apologetically that Wang Gong was "particularly tired of so-and-so, exiled to the wilderness, dear and wide." Every time I think of this, I feel that there is a soup fire thorn between my heart and lungs."
Su Shi was initially worried that Wang Gong had a grudge against him and had been afraid to write to him.
Unexpectedly, Wang Gong didn't care at all, let alone resentment. After arriving in Pennsylvania, he took the initiative to write a letter to Su Shi, saying nothing about the matter involved, although in the days of exile, he experienced the pain of losing his son twice, and he himself was seriously ill and almost died in his hometown.
Su Shi hated his villainous heart, and his understanding of this friend was far from enough.
Suffering sees the truth, and life and death are certain to know each other. The friendship between the two has thus reached a new stage.
Since then, from Huangzhou to Huizhou, the eunuch sea has been up and down, and the connection between Su Shi and Wang Gong has not been severed.
Su Shi's open-minded optimism must have been influenced by Wang Gong. He showed his strong face, but from time to time he complained in his letter to Wang Gong about all kinds of unsatisfactory exiles, and at the end he did not forget to add a sentence:
"Don't talk to people, but want your brother to know his little one."
Wang Gongxiao Su Shi is 11 years old, and Su Shi will be called "old brother" in the letter.
Meaning, brother, these complaints and confusionS are I will tell you alone, you dare to say out I am anxious with you. This is obviously a "private conversation" between close friends.
It is precisely because the relationship between the two is extraordinary, Su Shi will also point directly at Wang Gong's privacy and let him pay attention to it.
Wang Gong is a good woman. Su Shi said that the woman was a fox spirit, and hoped that the elder brother would see through it with the eyes of the Tao. This is not enough, Su Shi is still in the letter like a Tang monk, saying that you should take my letter as a motto to stop the desire.
In subsequent letters, Su Shi repeatedly told Wang Gong to stay away from female sex and take care of his body:
"Words are not exhaustive, but only guaranteed."
"If you don't have the opportunity to say it, don't be careful, not one by one."
"The rendezvous is not expected, but it is necessary to ensure it."
In short, nagging, endlessly. Friends who are not digging their hearts and lungs will not talk about each other's sex life so repeatedly.
Wang Gong later said: "Ordinary life travels, ten years of rise and fall, but Zi Zhan (Su Shi Zi Zhan) is durable." ”
The word "durability" is used wonderfully. We can imagine that the shelf life of the friendship between the two is very long, long to the lifelong warranty; we can also imagine Su Shi who goes out of his way to persuade his friends over and over again.
Some researchers have counted the frequency of Su Shi's travel with people in his lifetime, and found that it is Wang Gong who is at the top of the list.
Life has to meet Wang Gong, Su Shi is enough. In turn, Wang Gong met Su Shi, and the same was true.
Because this kind of friend will never divide you and me.