Su Dongpo was born in the 70th year of the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, living at the turning point of a hundred years of prosperity, and never encountered war in his life. The Song Dynasty in which he belonged was known as a hundred years without civil strife and a hundred years without killing ministers.
He was a city man who was born in Meishan, Sichuan, a very prosperous city at the time. Because the world's earliest banknotes appeared in Sichuan, Meishan was also one of the three major printing centers in the country at that time.
His family is very good, his father is the writer Su Xun, and his mother is the daughter of the wealthy Cheng Wenying.
The eight families of the Tang and Song dynasties, their families accounted for three: in addition to Su Dongpo himself, there were also his father Su Xun and his younger brother Su Zhe.
At the age of 20, he was admitted to the Jinshi and won the second place. The imperial examination system in the Northern Song Dynasty was an examination every three years, and more than 300 jinshi were taken each time. The examination room he participated in was known as the best in history, and the examiners were: Su Dongpo, his younger brother Su Zhe, Zeng Gong, one of the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, as well as Prime Minister Lu Huiqing, Prime Minister Zhang Dun, and Cheng Hao in Cheng Zhu Lixue.
He was rated by Ouyang Xiu, the leader of the literary world at the time: The old man should give way to this person. Ouyang Xiu's words made Su Dongpo famous all over the world at the age of 21. His fans include Song Yingzong's empress, and she is also the Empress Dowager Gao who listens to politics behind the curtain.
Even so, his life was not all smooth sailing.
He experienced life and death at a young age. He lost his mother at the age of 21, his wife at the age of 29, his father at the age of 30, and his son at the age of 48. He once wrote poems for his deceased wife, "Ten years of life and death are boundless, without thinking, unforgettable." Thousands of miles of lonely graves, nowhere to talk about desolation. It can be seen that the relationship between the two should be very good. He and his brother had a good relationship, but they were always separated. The younger brother was an official in Kyoto, but he was always demoted. For this reason, he wrote, "People have joys and sorrows, and the moon has clouds and sunny days. I hope that people will last a long time, and they will be together for thousands of miles. ”
He is the protagonist of the Wutai poetry case. At the age of 44, he was listed on the table for his poems, and was imprisoned for more than 40 days, almost beheaded. After he was released from prison, he was demoted to Huangzhou, and wrote "I laughed at myself and was busy with my life, and my career turned ridiculous when I got old." In this way, he expressed his complex and contradictory feelings.
He was not obedient to the officials. In the era of Wang Anshi's reform, those who supported the reform were called the new party, and those who opposed the reform led by Sima Guang were called the old party. The result is that the new party does not like him, and the old party does not like him.
He has been an official for 43 years, and most of the time he is either demoted or on the way to being demoted. He has been an official in sixteen or seventeen places, and he is also the most official places in ancient times.
His life has been full of ups and downs, but it is very optimistic. He was generous and did not save money. If there is no money, they will open up the wasteland and plant it themselves, because the land is in the east of the house, so it is named Dongpo. When it rained on the way, and there was no rain gear around, the people who traveled with him felt very embarrassed, but he happily wrote, "Bamboo canes and shoes are lighter than horses, who is afraid?" A cloud of smoke and rain is in his life, and there is no wind and rain and no sunshine. ”
He loves to make friends. said that he "can accompany the Jade Emperor on the top, and on the bottom can accompany the beggars of the Beitian Courtyard." I see no bad people in the world. He has written letters to more than 1,000 people, and seems to have a good relationship with everyone, and even has many monk friends.
He was kind. once spent 500 yuan to buy a house in Changzhou, and 500 yuan is equivalent to ten years of salary for ordinary employees. Seeing the original owner of the house crying at the door, saying that his son was sick and had no choice but to sell the house for his son's treatment, he burned the deed on the spot and let the owner live in the house again, and he didn't have to pay back the 500 yuan.
He is not an immortal who can only write poetry. He is also very serious as an official. When the official land encountered a flood, he personally fought the flood for more than 40 days, and it can be said that he is also a master of flood fighting. He also built a hospital, repaired the Su Causeway, and built a childcare association.
Why is the Su Dongpo phenomenon occurring now? Why do more and more people like Su Dongpo? Probably he is very similar to many of us ordinary people now. Born in the prosperous era, I saw the prosperity of the prosperous era. I feel that I am talented but unambitious, I long for family happiness but always encounter all kinds of difficulties, I feel that Su Dongpo's life is my life. I also want to learn from his optimism and open-mindedness, be a little self, blend in with heaven and earth, and enjoy life.
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