Li Shutong, who became famous at a young age and wandered into the upper class, abandoned his two wives and escaped into the empty door, and used his life to interpret the triple realm of life. Follow the bamboo into today's theme - Hongyi Master Li Shutong
Speaking of cosmic civilization, talking about earthly humanities, hello everyone, I am bamboo. Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the grass is green. The evening wind blows the willow flute, the sunset mountain outside the mountain, this well-known song is from the hand of Li Shutong, Li Shutong as the master of "twenty articles shocking the sea", poetry, calligraphy, painting, drama literature, everything proficient, created a precedent of Chinese culture and art, Lu Xun, Guo Moruo and other literary heroes Li Shu with the same word are not honored, is such a master, why would he choose to escape from the world and escape into the empty door? You may wish to give the bamboo a long press to like, trigger a high recommendation, and follow the bamboo to continue to look down.
Young and promising
It is rumored that when Li Shutong was born, a magpie fell to the bed in the delivery room with a tender green pine branch, which people thought was a sign of auspicious rui, and Li Shutong carried the pine branch with him since then. Li Shutong's father Li Shizhen was once a jinshi during the Tongzhi period, and then resigned and returned to his hometown to become a huge rich man in Tianjin, when Li Shutong was 5 years old, Li Shizhen died, and the departure of his father made Li Shutong's life with his mother Wang Shizhen not so good, and his mother Wang Shizhen was Li Shizhen's little wife, naturally he could not inherit the family property, and it was more to see the face of the eldest brother Li Wenxi. Li Wenxi knows that Li Shutong is a talent, and his requirements for Li Shutong are usually very harsh, especially in reading, which also makes Li Shutong have an inferiority complex from an early age and develop a taciturn personality.
Li Shutong's reading can be said to have encountered no difficulties, at the age of 7, Li Wenxi began to teach him to study some basic anthologies such as "Hundred Filial Piety Diagrams" and "Return to Sex", and at the age of 8 he officially entered the hall, studied the "Four Books" and "Filial Piety Classics", began to read "Erya" at the age of 13 to learn calligraphy and the study of words and chapters, the township knew that Li Shutong's words were well written, and at the age of 15, after reading "Zuo Zhuan" and "The Essence of Han History", He had some feelings, so that Li Shutong wrote "Life is like the day of the Western Mountains, and wealth is like frost on the grass", this kind of old-fashioned autumn, It's not at all like the verses that young people do.
At the age of 19, Li Shutong just caught up with the "Hundred Days Restoration", he was persecuted to go to Shanghai to avoid disasters because he agreed with Liang Qichao Kang's promising proposal to change the law, and studied at Nanyang Public School, where Li Shutong also represented the new culture and the old feudal and decadent culture to fight, and later left school in anger in the school conflict, went to Japan to study oil painting, music, drama, and became the founder of the Chinese drama movement.
The most interesting thing is that Li Shutong dressed as a woman performed the drama "La Traviata", when Li Shutong in Japan did not lose himself in the life of a drunken gold fan, but was very concerned about the fate of the country, in 1907, there was a flood in Huaibei, China, and there were many people affected by the flood, Li Shutong decided to perform the drama "La Traviata" to collect donations from the society, so as to make some contributions to the people in the disaster area. The drama club established by Li Shutong was called Chunliu Society, there were few members at that time, and all of them were all men, there was no girl to play the main role margaret, Li Shutong had a sudden idea, in the drama for the first time to try men to dress as women, by himself to play the heroine.
In order to play a good female role, Li Shutong deliberately lost weight and slimmed out the "willow thin waist", put on a deliberately customized women's dress, shaved his beard clean, and opened the performance of "La Traviata". After the first performance, the impact was particularly great, for a time the Japanese upper-class celebrities all knew this Chinese student Li Shutong, Li Shutong's fans are also countless, and this drama performance has become the beginning of Chinese drama. Uncle Li is liked by so many girls, what kind of affair will happen to him? No hurry, Bullet Curtain Buckle 1 support bamboo, let's continue to look down.
Gone with the wind
Uncle Li is talented, and often goes in and out of the upper class, the number of famous ladies in contact is innumerable, the mother Wang clan is afraid that he is playing outside, so he married a wife Yu for Uncle Li's arranged marriage, Li Shutong has long been out of the house, how can he be free, after returning home and hastily completing the marriage, he ran to Shanghai to leave Yu alone at home, Yu served his mother-in-law at home every day, and did a good job as a wife, while Li Shutong fought fiercely with the famous ladies in Shanghai at that time, Such as Zhu Huibai, Li Pingxiang, and Xie Qiuyun. After playing with Li Shutong, he continued to go to Japan to study painting, but a painting experience in the park made him acquainted with his second wife, Makoto.
At that time, Li Shutong was painting in the park, he glimpsed a young girl sitting on a bench in the distance, just a glance at Li Shutong was attracted, so he plucked up enough courage to talk to the girl, asked the girl if she could be the model he painted, the girl saw that Li Shutong was young and handsome, elegant temperament, she smiled and nodded her head in agreement, so Li Shutong began to paint a portrait of the girl, a man and a woman stayed in the park for an afternoon, after doing the painting, they had a conversation, and both sides were more speculative, The girl's name is Makoto, a student of the Health School, and Makoto did not expect that a young man who spoke fluent Japanese was actually a Chinese student.
Since then, Li Shutong and Makoto's contact has increased, Makoto often does Li Shutong's painting model, she has gradually fallen in love with Li Shutong, although Li Shutong has a good feeling for Makoto but he is married after all, he does not want to hide From Makoto to think of being a good friend, even if Makoto does not care about Li Shutong's marriage, he is still stubbornly entangled with Li Shutong. Makoto's family certainly did not agree to their being together.
Li Shutong is only a Chinese student who eventually wants to return to China, Makoto's family hopes that Makoto will stay in Japan and marry a local banker, but Makoto is now completely blinded by love, for Li Shutong to directly break with his family, which is very rare in Japan, which shows that Li Shutong's charm is extraordinary. Li Shutong was also eventually impressed by Makoto, and the two returned to Shanghai after a simple wedding in Japan, and Makoto became Li Shutong's second wife, if in modern Times Li Shutong committed bigamy but there was no such law at that time. The reason why Li Shutong did not return to Tianjin is that in the final analysis, he still feels guilty about Yu's family and is speechless. So he settled in the familiar Shanghai, leaving Yu alone in Tianjin.
Epiphany of old age
After Li Shutong returned to Shanghai, he was no longer the rich boy who was obsessed with the flow of affairs, put away the youthful and vigorous appearance of the year, and left only the desire to contribute to the country in education. Li Shutong initially only worked as an editor in a newspaper, and was later hired as a music and art teacher by Hangzhou Normal and Nanjing Normal, so Li Shutong lived in Nanjing for half a month and Hangzhou for half a month. Although the most important subjects in the school are Chinese language and mathematics, Li Shutong is indeed the most authoritative teacher in the school, doing things seriously and seriously, so the students respect him.
Li Shutong for poor students, will also be very enthusiastic to help, the famous music educator Liu Zhiping is Li Shutong's student, he once studied in Japan due to problems with the study abroad funds, actually wanted to commit suicide, Li Shutong knew that after each month from his salary to extract a part of the funding Liu Tianping, and then Li Shutong on the eve of the ordination was prepared to give a sum of money to Liu Zhiping, enough for him to use to graduate from college.
Many Chinese literati after visiting the West Lake, they all think that the West Lake is like a beauty like Xi Shi, and Li Shutong feels the ethereal spirit of Buddhism in the fog of the West Lake, Hangzhou has two things the most mosquitoes and monks, hangzhou has more than 2,000 temples, and Li Shutong has been attracted by such a quiet life for many years, Li Shutong is also a good practitioner, so he ran to Hupao Temple and decided to become a monk. Li Shutong gave all his worldly belongings to his friends, students, and his second wife, Chengzi, but he had no contact with his wife Yu Shi, perhaps Yu Shi was the most sorry woman in Li Shutong's life.
Li Shutong's monastic choice is the most rigorous and rigid precepts of the Vinaya, not to preside, to refuse all fame and fortune, to take the precepts as a teacher since then rough tea and light meals, no food after noon... , Li Shutong officially became a monk, Hongyi, when Li Shutong became a monk, the Vinaya has been cut off from the inheritance for more than 700 years, and now he is the only one who has devoted himself to research, while traveling, while lecturing, his attainments in Buddhism have become deeper and deeper, and he is revered as the eleventh ancestor of the Vinaya, and his reputation is even louder than before.
Li Shutong's life has experienced three realms, one is material life, the second is spiritual life, the third is soul life, ordinary people are only satisfied with material, a small number of people can cross the material to the spirit, but in the spiritual world plunge into it, become a cultural master in all aspects, only a very small number of people can go to the soul, to explore the end of life. Li Shutong abandoned his family, separated from the loving Makoto, and devoted himself to Buddhism, he has completely seen through the material and literature, so he chooses to explore the soul.
In the autumn of 1942, Li Shutong foresaw his death in advance, calmly arranged his own affairs, only to see his friends and students refuse to be visited by others, reciting Buddhist scriptures and writing down the four words of "intersection of sorrow and joy", which are simple four words, but there are endless mysteries, indicating that he did not stay in the world, did not miss his relatives, but was not satisfied with his previous life, and thought that he wasted a lot of time.
A generation of masters Li Shutong also had many regrets about his life, from the spirited teenager to the ancestor of the Vinaya Master Hongyi, he experienced three realms of life, and when he was dying, he was not obsessed with the original red dust, he was open-minded after all. So do you think that Uncle Li is right to abandon the world with his monastic family? Or is it a bit impersonal? Give your answers in the comments section, follow the bamboo, and we'll see you next time.