While giving a brief introduction to Sadie's life, it is necessary to understand the historical background of the time. At that time, Europe was in the Middle Ages, and the gradual rise of the Mongol Empire in the East posed a great threat to the Southern Song Dynasty, Persia and other Asian countries. Sadie, on the other hand, is living in such an era.
Portrait of Sadie
Saadi, whose full name was Sheikh Muslikhddin Abdullah Sady Shiraz, was born in 1208 in Fars Shiraz, Persia, and his father was a low-ranking missionary among Muslims, so as a child Sadi did not live a very prosperous life, and he studied at a local school. It wasn't until he was 14 years old that his father died of illness and Sadie moved to Baghdad to study at Nezamiye, baghdad's most famous school at the time. During his studies, Sadie mainly studied literature and Islamic theology, and tried to write some poems. However, Sadie was more promiscuous by nature and was not used to the red tape of the school, so he left Baghdad after dropping out of school, intending to return to his hometown.
At this time, the Mongol Empire was in the ascendant and began to attack the Persian kingdom. However, within the Persian kingdom, there was still a constant scuffle between local separatist forces, so Sadie did not return to his hometown, and he began to preach as a wanderer. His footprints have covered Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Ethiopia, India and other places, and even reached the Kashgar area of Xinjiang in China. Due to the wars along the way, his sermons did not bring him much benefit, so his life was still very difficult, and he even worked as a coolie.
Sadie's journey has passed for more than thirty years, and when he returns to his hometown, he is already a white-haired old man. His hometown of Shiraz was purchased by the local rulers for a large sum of money, so the Mongol war did not spread there. Sadie lived in seclusion there and devoted himself to writing until 1291, when he died in his hometown at the age of 83.
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Saadi works
Sadie's works are very rich, mainly lyric poems, and there are more than 600 poems that have been circulated to this day, the most representative of which are "Orchard" and "Rose Garden".
Cover of Sadie's work The Orchard
The content in "Orchard" and "Rose Garden" is roughly the same, both describe the author's own experience in the process of wandering and his feelings about life and life. It is a narrative poem with a unique style.
The Orchard is a collection of narrative poems, also known as the Sadie Collection, which consists of 8 chapters and 200 different stories. This is a record of what Sadie saw and heard in the process of travel and wandering, the work is rich in content and fresh in speech, and it is a work dedicated to his hometown by Sadie as a wanderer who has been traveling for many years. The content of the work is very extensive, from the emperors and generals, down to the common people and the city pawns, vivid in the author's pen, showing the good and evil of the world and the warmth of human feelings, truly reflecting the customs and customs of the 13th century Persia and the Muslim countries in the East, and is a classic work that studies the society at that time. "Orchard" was already introduced to China in the middle of the Republic of China, and around the 1940s, it was translated into Chinese by the famous Chinese Islamic scholar Wang Jingzhai, which was used as a basic reading for understanding Islamic culture in early China.
The Rose Garden is another iconic classic in Sadie's work. The content of this work is very similar to "Orchard", but it is better than the former in terms of wording. The Garden of Roses, consisting of 8 volumes and 227 stanzas, is also in the form of narrative poems to express the author's observations and feelings during travel and wandering. Together with "Orchard", the work was introduced to China in the same period, and is still translated into Chinese by Mr. Wang Jingzhai and began to be published in 1943, and is a reading book for Chinese halal cultural education. Mr. Wang Jingzhai called "Orchard" and "Rose Garden" together as "True Garden".
Characteristics of Sadie's work
The characteristics of the works of the Persian poet Saadi are mainly based on its recording of what individuals see and hear in the process of travel, which are widely involved, the language is fresh and natural, and the addition of folk songs, folk songs, etc., is refreshing to read, and is a model of medieval Persian literature.
Statue of Sadie
Sadie's works are extremely numerous, with about 600 poems, of which the Orchard and the Rose Garden are the most famous. After Sadie ended his wanderings and returned to his hometown, his first work was "The Orchard", which was a gift to his hometown as a wanderer. The Rose Garden is also completed during the author's seclusion in his hometown, and the content of the two books is similar, complementing each other, but never repeating. All of them recount the author's observations during the travels, from the words and deeds of the emperors and generals to the lives and lives of ordinary people, all of which are recorded and all loaded, involving a wide range of content, and the natural scenery along the way has also been greatly exaggerated. These works are composed of a number of short and pithy stories, written in rhymeless prose and short poems. It shows the social situation of Muslims in the east at that time, reflecting the cold and warm of human feelings and the coldness of the world.
Sadie's works are also characterized by his proficiency in the use of folk songs, folk songs, proverbs, aphorisms, etc., the language is neat and tidy, rhyming naturally, and it is catchy to read. The language used by the author in the text is extremely concise, the sentences are fresh and natural, and the author's innocent and simple feelings are expressed. It has been widely sung by Persian Muslims for hundreds of years.
Through allegorical short stories, Sadie conveys to readers the truth about governance, communication, love, etc., so that readers can be easily inspired and educated.
The influence of Sadie's work
The influence of Saadi's works on Islamic countries, including Europe, Asia and Africa, is enormous, and his unique word processing techniques and exquisite sentences have made people all over the world understand the culture and essence of Islamic countries.
Portrait of Sadie on a stamp
Sadie's surviving works are very rich, with more than 600 poems, of which "The Orchard" and "The Rose Garden" are the most famous. Both collections of poems have been translated into dozens of languages and published in their respective countries. As early as 1943, these two collections of poems had entered the Chinese mainland and were translated into Chinese as the earliest readings of Islamic literature. His works are accepted by readers around the world, while also promoting the islamic religious spirit of the author himself. These two works have long been the teaching materials for Muslim scripture education in China, and are the first reading materials in China to come into contact with Islamic culture.
The term "scripture" enjoys a very high status in China. For example, the Four Books and Five Classics are known as the classics of Confucianism, and the Orchard and the Garden of Roses, to a certain extent, are also called Islamic religious classics by China, which shows the high status of Sadi in Islamic literature.
The influence of Saadi's work enjoys a high reputation not only in local countries, but also within the United Nations. His fresh and natural writing, concise and vivid language, and profound reflections on morality, humanity and society have been recognized by UNESCO. His famous phrase "All Adam's children are brothers" has now become the motto of the United Nations.
In 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama quoted Sadie's famous quote in a speech when he took office. He said that some people think that we are characterized by being different from others, but a long time ago, the Persian poet Sadie said that Adam's descendants are brothers, brothers are like brothers and sisters, and the original nature of creation is one.