Reading Notes of Kang Zhen on Su Dongpo: Interesting Su Dongpo

When reading "Kang Zhen tells Su Dongpo", I am often amused by the story of Su Dongpo contained in it.

No matter what the situation is, even at the critical moment, Su Dongpo maintains an extremely optimistic attitude, and Mr. Kang Zhen calls him an "incurable optimist". Such optimism has created an interesting Su Dongpo.

in 179, in the second year of Yuanfeng, the God Sect, Su Shi was involved in the Wutai Poetry Case, and an imperial envoy was ordered to go to Huzhou to catch him and bring him to justice. At that time, Su Shi, the Huzhou magistrate, was dragged out of the city like a chicken and a dog, and was dragged onto a ship. Su Shi's wife and children rushed out, crying and scrambling to follow. At this juncture, although Su Shi was also flustered and sad, he remembered a joke: In those days, Song Zhenzong recruited talented people, and someone recommended the poet Yang Pu. Zhenzong immediately summoned Yang Pu to write poems. Yang Pu said no, and Zhenzong asked, "Did anyone write a poem to see you off when you left?" Yang Pu said, "No, only my wife wrote a quatrain, saying,' Don't be down and out, drink too much, and don't be crazy about reciting poems. Today, I will arrest the generals and ruin my old scalp." "Song Zhenzong laughed and put Yang Pu home.

Mrs. Su has also heard this story. Now Su Shi turned to comfort his wife and said, "Don't be sad. Can you send me some poems like Yang Pu's wife?" Mrs. Su couldn't help but burst into tears.

In this urgent moment of being captured by an imperial envoy, it's good for ordinary people not to have two battles. Madam Su actually managed to comfort her, and even told jokes directly to make her laugh and cry. I must live with such people, and ordinary days are also very interesting.

In the year of Shao Shengyuan (194), Su Shi was nearly sixty years old when he was exiled to Huizhou (now Huizhou, Guangdong). Huizhou in the Northern Song Dynasty lagged behind the Central Plains in economy and culture, and its living conditions were very difficult. Huizhou area is sparsely populated, and only one sheep can be killed every day. Every time Su Shi bought a sheep spine, he cooked it in water, then dipped it in rice wine while it was hot, sprinkled with thin salt, roasted it until it was slightly burnt, and ate it for a long time, just to enjoy a little bit of mutton picked out from the cracks in the bones. In a letter to his younger brother Su Zhe, he wrote with self-deprecation: "I am very happy, like eating crab claws. After eating for a few days, I feel very replenished. ..... However, if this is said, the dogs will be unhappy! "

Eating sheep and scorpions, without meat, can also be imagined by him as eating hairy crabs, and eating them with relish makes all the dogs in the family unhappy. What a sense of picture, a happy know life, the image of an old man taking pains immediately appeared in front of him.

Being demoted repeatedly, my brother being exiled, my family being separated, and "food and clothing are getting worse", my mood is bound to be depressed. However, Su Shi has the ability to have fun in hardships, and he also enjoys the hardships.

in April (11), the third year of Yuan Fu, the imperial court granted an amnesty, and Su Shi was reinstated as a court official. In June, Su Shi left Hainan, the last place of relegation. He was seriously ill at that time.

One day, he suddenly had diarrhea, digestive system disorder, bloated stomach, no appetite at all, and it was difficult for him to lie on his back, so he couldn't sleep at night. In a letter with Mi Fei, he described it this way: "If you eat something, it will swell up, but if you don't eat it, it will be very embarrassing. Last night, you didn't close your eyes and sat full of mosquitoes' ears. I don't know how to spend this evening. "

Suffering from illness, he can't sleep well. He can also say in a humorous tone that he just sits and feeds mosquitoes. His optimistic nature is really "hopeless".

In fact, he died more than fifty days later.