Three years ago, like many people, I was looking forward to the arrival of the second decade of the new century. Life is like gold, shining with charming brilliance. Watch the germination of plants and trees, watch the growth of children, and see the improvement of society. Many people are full of confidence in the future.
In the past two years, the world has quietly changed, and many people seem to have experienced their whole lives. The epidemic, war, closure... Without any preparation, the plots in movies and novels were suddenly pushed to the front of their eyes. The golden years passed by suddenly. Certainty remains in yesterday, and uncertainty often circulates in my heart.
Under the turmoil, both history and individuals have come to a crossroads.
In any major change, the intellectuals in China who are worried about the world have almost instinctive similar reactions, that is, they are struggling between entering the world and leaving the world.
During this period, I often think of Du Fu .
Wen Yiduo's evaluation of Du Fu is, "The first great poet in China's history, the most solemn, splendid and permanent brilliance in the four thousand years of culture."
Youth love Li Bai , read Du Fu in middle age. "Good rain knows the season, and it happens when spring happens." " will reach the top of the mountain , will overlook all the mountains ", "What's the floating like? A sand gull in the world" . Many people are familiar with Du Fu's poems. But I haven't experienced it before and can't understand the poet's mood. In recent years, major events at home and abroad have been constantly, and major turning points and major changes are right in front of you. Du Fu suddenly traveled through a thousand years and came to his eyes.
If it weren't for Anshi Rebellion , Du Fu might only be considered a good poet. The Anshi Rebellion broke the atmosphere of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but it also made Du Fu, making him an unprecedented poetic saint.
When ideals and civilization are broken, the feeling of heartbreak is no less than losing the person you love. Especially that civilization reached such a height and achieved such great achievements, but then fell into boundless chaos and fear due to a turmoil. This sharp contrast deeply shocked Du Fu. Especially after his youngest son was starved to death, he completely awakened.
"...The wine and meat in the rich family smell bad, and the road is frozen to death. The prosperity and withering are different, and it is hard to describe melancholy again... When I heard the cry of the beginning, my young son died of hunger. I would rather give up a mourning, and the alleys were sobbing. I am ashamed of being a father, and I have no food to die. I am always exempt from rent and taxes, and my reputation is not affiliated with the fining..."
From then on, I used poetry to expose social contradictions, criticize social injustice, care about the suffering of the people, and portray the true background of the prosperity and decline of the Tang Dynasty, which became the biggest theme of Du Fu's poetry.
From " Three Officials " to " Three Farewell ", and then to " Thatched Hut Broken by the Autumn Wind ", Du Fu began to shout for the bottom and the world over and over again. In Du Fu's poems, there is both the fireworks of the common people's lives and the rolling world of the country. Many of the predecessors did not express the content in poetry, and Du Fu got involved.
Although he was born into a famous family, after the world around him fell apart, Du Fu responded with a typical Confucian 's entry posture and humane and upright way.
Fortunately, in life, it is not always a sword, and occasionally it will give people a breath.
beat the horse across the Central Plains, and Du Fu came to Chengdu on a boat. In the country of Tianfu, Du Fu's body and mind were temporarily rested. In the thatched cottage by Huanhua Stream, Du Fu, who had been wandering for half his life, finally felt like home.
The peace and joy even made him give up his ambition for a short time, "but there is an old friend who offers rice, so what else can I ask for in this little body?" As long as there is a stuttering, what other pursuits do I have?
The poet who calmed down easily made people see the other side of him. "The old wife draws paper as a chess game, and the child hits the needle as a fishing hook", "The butterflies dance at the same time, and the orioles sing freely."
If it is not forced by the current situation, who would not want to manage their little days well and find it uncomfortable? The reason why life sometimes has to carry the burden is often because it is involuntarily because it has the responsibility and responsibility that requires people to stand up.
The fourth year in Chengdu is Du Fu's brief birth. This period of time without fear not only nourishes the poet's life, but also leaves a brilliant poem for Chinese civilization.
I sincerely admire Du Fu. For Su Dongpo , I worship it.
Lin Yutang said that whenever Su Dongpo is mentioned, Chinese people always smile with a kind and warm understanding. "Hi Look at Li Bai in good times, and look at Dongpo in bad times." When you encounter a hurdle that cannot be overcome, think about how would he face it if Dongpo was there? Sometimes when I think about it this way, I suddenly feel it.
Birth and entry into the world, these two seemingly opposite and contradictory life options, often torture Chinese intellectuals, but the talented Su Dongpo did not do multiple-choice questions at all, but perfectly combined them and was good at it.
Su Dongpo is extremely involved in the world. He dares to resist anyone or anything he doesn't like.
In the court, Wang Anshi's reform was too radical and opposed; Sima Guang completely stopped the new law, and opposed it.
locally, Xuzhou flood control, Mizhou locusts, Hangzhou water conservancy repair, Dingzhou military discipline rectification, wherever you go, you have a lot of political achievements and gain a lot of fans in the city.
was demoted to Huangzhou, Huizhou, Danzhou. If someone else was in a state of dust, he would have been discouraged, but Su Dongpo would still shine everywhere. Save Doing infants , build bridges and pave roads, popularize culture and education, just like a little sun, he has infinite energy.
In his later years, he summarized his life creed: will not benefit the present, and will never be mediocre and corrupt with plants and trees.
While actively joining the world, Su Dongpo actually always has a pastoral dream.
In the career, others were experiencing wealth for promotion, but Su Dongpo just wanted to realize his ideal of saving the world as soon as possible and then hide away.
When I was a judge in Hangzhou, on a cold rainy autumn night, Su Dongpo, who couldn't sleep, regretted entering the officialdom and couldn't sleep all night, so he wrote a poem: Alas, what do I want? He traveled through the river for thousands of miles. If you live in poverty, you will not have enough food and will not be able to live in peace.
Even at the peak of his career and was at the height of his position, Su Dongpo still always thought about retirement. "Next year, we will go with Shilong, and there will be no two gulls in the sky." He always hopes to return home with his younger brother Su Zhe , like two gulls, hiding into the vast smoke.
He also wrote to his neighbors in Huangzhou to help take care of the acre of three-point land on Dongpo, saying that he would go back to farm sooner or later to live in seclusion.
Du Fu has Chengdu, Su Shi has Huangzhou.
"The heart is like a tree that has been ashes, and the body is like a boat that has not been tied to. Ask you for your life's achievements, Huangzhou Huizhou Danzhou." Huangzhou ranks first in Su Shi's last poem " Self-entered Kingsoft Portrait ".
Although Meishan is Su Shi's hometown, Huangzhou is his spiritual home. The name Dongpo comes from Huangzhou.
During his time in Huangzhou, Su Shi created a number of popular masterpieces that have passed through the ages, including " Niannujiao·Red Cliff Nostalgia ", " Before the Red Cliff ", and " After the Red Cliff ".
On March 7, a certain year, Su Shi and his friends went out for a trip. The storm suddenly changed, and it was raining. Everyone who traveled with me felt embarrassed, only Su Shi didn't mind at all, and even still enjoyed the rain scene. The rain passed by and the sky was clear. Su Shi was filled with mixed feelings, so an article " Decisive Storm " emerged and inspired the world for thousands of years.
Don’t listen to the sound of the leaves hitting through the forest, why not sing and walk slowly. Who is afraid of bamboo sticks and straw shoes being lighter than horses? A raincoat is a raincoat and a raincoat for life. The chilly spring breeze sobered up, and the mountain shones slightly, but welcoming each other. Looking back, I have always been in a bleak place, and when I go back, there is no wind, rain or sunshine.
In Huangzhou, he learned to reconcile and take things as they happen. Wherever he is at peace is my hometown.
There is only one true heroism in the world, that is, after realizing the truth of life, you still love life.
No matter where he is, whether he is a high position or a poor hometown, Su Dongpo can always settle his spiritual world with a transcendent attitude and maintain the ability to live happily; at the same time, he strives to help the world with a worldly attitude, hoping that the world will be safe and the people will live in peace.
Su Dongpo set a perfect benchmark for later Chinese literati.
During my growth process, I was deeply influenced by Du Fu and Su Shi, the best ancient Chinese people. When I was young, I didn’t have many books at home, but it was nothing more than Tang poetry and Song lyrics and storytelling legends. When I was a teenager, I liked to read Jin Yong , and I learned the traditional ones. After working, Fang came into contact with a large number of Western figures and theories, but the background color had long been solidified. In fact, there is no need to force the East and the West to distinguish between the East and the West, sincerity, kindness and compassion. These beautiful qualities do not distinguish between national boundaries. However, the spiritual pursuit of traditional Chinese literati is more tragic because of the harsh environment.
Western Han Lu Jia said: "A gentleman walks straight and knows that he will be humiliated but not avoids it."
In Chinese history, there has never been a shortage of gentlemen who know that he cannot do it. "It is enough to die in the morning and night." The value of "Tao" is more important than life.
It is precisely because of this that generations of people with kindness and ambition have come to generations of people who are kind and ambitious for their ideals and beliefs and justice, and worry about the world first and enjoy the world first.
