Su Shi has high attainments in literature and poetry, and can be called the representative of the highest literary achievement in Song Dynasty. Moreover, Su Shi's creative activities are not limited to literature. He has made outstanding achievements in calligraphy, painting and other fields, and also made contributions in medicine, cooking, water conservancy and other skills.
Su Shi is a typical representative of the cultural spirit in Song Dynasty. Judging from the scope of literary history, Su Shi's significance mainly has two points: First, Su Shi's attitude towards life has become a paradigm respected by later scholars: advancing and retreating freely, not being shocked by humiliation. Because Su Shi integrated the two attitudes of feudal scholars on the same value scale, he was able to keep calm and go all out.
Of course, this paradigm is more suitable for scholars who have suffered from ups and downs, and it can lead to a life of integrity and abundance, which is exactly what scholars in the past dynasties after the Song Dynasty hoped to do.
Secondly, Su Shi's aesthetic attitude provides an enlightening aesthetic paradigm for later generations. He embraces the world with a broad aesthetic vision, so everything is considerable and beauty is everywhere. This paradigm has opened up a new world for future generations in subject matter, content and expression. Therefore, it is a historical necessity that Su Shi is universally loved by later literati.
Su Shi was a literary leader in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, and made great achievements in poetry, ci, writing, calligraphy and painting. His writing is arbitrary; His poems are broad in subject matter, fresh and healthy, good at exaggeration and metaphor, and unique in style. He is also called "Su Huang" with Huang Tingjian. His words are bold and unconstrained, and they are both bold and unconstrained representatives with Xin Qiji, and they are called "Su Xin";
His prose creation is rich and unrestrained, and he is also called "Ou Su" with Ouyang Xiu, and he is one of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties". Su Shi is also good at books and is one of the "Song Sijia"; He is good at literati painting, especially ink bamboo, strange stones and dead wood. There are seven episodes of Dongpo, Yi Zhuan of Dongpo, Yuefu of Dongpo, Xiaoxiang Bamboo Stone Atlas and Ancient Wood and Strange Stone Atlas handed down from generation to generation.
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Wang Chaoyun, Su Shi's last confidante.
According to Su Shi's chronicle, Chaoyun changed from a maid to a concubine only in Huangzhou. It was her persistence in poverty and poverty that accompanied Su Shi through that long and difficult time. Those bowls of fragrant and soft Dongpo meat should be full of fans and endless love. In the sixth year of Yuanfeng, Chaoyun gave birth to a son named Kuaier for Su Shi.
"Zhi" means "escape", which also expresses Su Shi's determination to be careless in officialdom at that time. At the time of the full moon, Su Shi once wrote a poem: "Everyone raises a clever son, and I have been delayed by cleverness all my life. I only hope that this child will be honest and honest, and there will be no disaster and no trouble for the public. " However, his good wishes were soon dashed-the next year, Kuaier died unfortunately, which was a heavy blow to both Chao Yun and Su Shi.
Su Shi was nearly sixty years old when he was demoted to Huiyang (now Huizhou, Guangdong). Although he has the optimism of "300 lychees a day, he has worked hard to become a Lingnan person", but people all know that it is difficult for him to make a comeback politically. With the deterioration of family circumstances, the concubines who once surrounded him dispersed one after another, and only Chaoyun accompanied him across mountains and mountains and traveled long distances to the wilderness.
"Unlike Yang Zhi, he is not happy, just like Tongde and Leyuan. The Anuluo show is different from the old one, and the goddess Vimo always interprets Zen. New works of medicine furnace, old marriage of dance shirt and song board. Dan Cheng drove me away from the three mountains instead of being immortal in Wushan. " The preface of this poem says, "How many concubines are there in my family? In the past four or five years, he resigned one after another and moved to the south alone because of reading Lotte poems. "
In his later years, Bai Juyi faced the affair between Su Fan and Xiao Man Zhu Ji, while Dongpo always stood in the clouds behind him, loving and respecting him.
In the third year of Su Shi's arrival in Huiyang, Chaoyun died of plague at the age of 34. After that, Su Shi's life resume never left any traces of women, and "Waiting on the Clouds" became the masterpiece of Dongpo's lay love.
Chaoyun is a cloud in the sky, but it is difficult to lift your eyes. "Not appropriate, only ChaoYun can know me; Solo the old tune, I miss you more at dusk. " This is Su Shi's helpless and affectionate whisper after Chaoyun's death.
"Better be a hero's concubine than a mediocre wife." In the Chaoyun era, women should still receive such education. Even now, in my opinion, this proposition has certain rationality, but the premise is that there must be true love, and no one can hurt people. Unfortunately, almost no one can do it.
At that time, under that marriage system, hipsters were not intruders of marriage, they also had the right to enjoy love and be loved, and sometimes they could even be strong enough to occupy all the emotions of a man. We don't know if Chaoyun has this ability, but we know that she is a confidant of Su Shi's beauty and a woman who can keep warm with Su Shi physically and mentally when the world is cold.
It seems that Chaoyun should be the most important woman in Su Shi's life, no matter from the time and length of getting along, or from the degree of mutual attraction and fit between heart and heart. Chaoyun's tombstone is engraved with the word "Ji Ren". She was never Su Shi's wife, but she knew him, loved him, pitied him, accompanied him, and was his soul mate and last lover.
Baidu encyclopedia-Su Shi
People's Network-Wang Chaoyun: Su Shi's last confidante.