Su Shi's poems describing ancient women made the ancients blush, and modern people sneered at them
There were many poems about women in ancient China, but due to the influence of the entire social history and traditional concepts, many of the poems were relatively obscure and subtle. After all, a little more direct, will be those"There are other drawings"of people approve.
But few people know that Su Shi's words about the old woman's body are bold and straightforward. When the ancients read these words, they blushed and didn't dare to look at them directly, and modern people read these words and scolded their mothers directly.
In that feudal era, people didn't dare to imagine how difficult it was for the old woman to be ** and injured. The depictions in the poems are not as heartbreaking as they appear in reality.
Ancient ideas. Those who are familiar with ancient history know that the original Chinese society was very open and enlightened. Especially before the Anshi Rebellion, the development of the prosperous era of Kaiyuan made people yearn for and cherish the ancients.
When people from all over the world gathered in Chang'an and looked at the prosperity of Chang'an with envy, how proud people were at that time.
The turmoil of the Anshi Rebellion gradually closed the Han people from the outside world. Social requirements, especially for women, have also become very strict, and people don't want another Yang Yuhuan to come"Ravage"this country.
But in the eyes of today's people, the question is how much a woman can set off. There is only one Wu Zetian in Chinese history.
The facts cannot be changed, and bad Xi are gradually coming to the stage of history. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Chinese feudal society began to require women to bind their legs.
In other words, as long as a woman grows to four or five years old, she must learn to keep her feet in a small position, which is true"Soft"with"Health"。
Looking at this scene, Su Shi, who was displaced by the difficulty of Wutai Mountain, couldn't help but write the poem "Bodhisattva Barbarian-Winged Feet":
You can smell the lotus feet, and wash the socks carefully"。
The squirming of the small-footed woman made him incomprehensible. Is this really healthy? The so-called softness and beauty? It's really ridiculous that we pursue beauty by destroying our bodies.
He seems to be singing the praises of the feet, of this Xi. But in fact, Su Kyi is using this to satirize the ignorance of the society at that time. Of course, no one knows if this has anything to do with his deposition for a fictional crime.
It's just that, after a life full of talent and passion, he finally regretted it for the rest of his life, and I don't think anyone would want this to be the end.
As for why the aborigines blush when they see her, the reason is simple, it was a time of feudal ignorance. If a man looks at a woman's body, it is extremely inappropriate.
Moreover, Su Shi is not only"Look", and also wrote what he saw into the poem, which is obviously a more deviant behavior.
But does Su Shi care? If words lose even the power of criticism and satire, then writing words will lose their meaning.
In the history books of the past and present, we should only focus on the good side, but when the experience of suffering and the past have passed, who will read it? Who will read the past? Who cares about it?
No wonder Mr. Lin Yutang commented on Su Shi like this:
Such characters are rare in the world, and both are rare.
Today's perspective.
Thankfully, the ignorance of the past has disappeared into the long river of history over time. Although until the middle of the last century, in some poor mountain villages in China, there were still people who adhered to these ignorant traditions.
But today, with the increasing popularity of civilization, similar situations have finally disappeared.
We condemn some historical Xi because they are themselves wrong. When should a woman's health or femininity be judged by its tiny feet? If deformity is beauty, people would rather see the whole world without beauty.
Not only that, but this concept also reflects the ignorance of the late Song and early Yuan dynasties, and gradually in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties"Blossoming and fruiting"。
Which dynasty before the Song Dynasty had such special requirements for small feet? When did these dynasties need to show the beauty of women so specially?
People value beauty and pursue beauty, not only for beauty, but also for virtue and beauty.
Which of the four great beauty queens of ancient China, Zhaojun, Diao Chan, Xi Shi, and Yang Yuhuan, has foot binding? The idea of imposing the ignorance and ignorance of society on women is outrageous.
Because of this, people are determined to break these bad Xi, not only for the transition to a new era, but also for a better tomorrow.
Su Shi satirized these behaviors with obvious positive and negative characteristics. Unfortunately, his personal influence alone could not change the ideology of this society. Although the current people are not as cultured as Su Shi, Su Shi's ideas have been recognized by the whole world.
If Mr. Su can see such a vision, I believe he will also be happy for modern women: they finally no longer have to be tightly bound by stinky and long strips of cloth.
Su Shi has a poem about an old woman, the aborigines blushed when they read it, and the modern people read it and denounced it as tasteless.