On Su Dongpo's Humor

Su Dongpo, the only one in 5000 years, lost his sense of humor and became less attractive. In the eyes of experts in literature and history, Su Shi is an undisputed elder brother in ci poetry, a wizard in calligraphy and painting, and an official who benefited one side in the Northern Song Dynasty. But among the people, Master Su is an idle person who travels all over China, and the number of humorous stories is the largest among ancient literati. Some of these interesting stories are made up by people. Anyway, no matter what happened in the interesting stories of literati of the same age, if the protagonist can't be found, it will be deducted from Su Dongpo. But this does not seem to blame future generations, who told him to position himself as the first player in the Northern Song Dynasty. What I want to share with you in this issue is an interesting story. When Su Shi was playing in the temple, he was asked by a monk in the temple to write poems. It is common for Dongpo to be asked to write poems. At a banquet in Huangzhou, he met a singer named Li Qi and asked him for poems. The girl is virtuous, although she is humble, so Dongpo wrote her a poem on the spot. The full text is as follows: Dongpo lived in Huangzhou for five years, why not talk about Li Qi? Just like surprisingly Du Gongbu, Haitang left no poems. The first two sentences and the last two sentences of this poem were written separately at that time. After reading the first two sentences, the girl is a pear flower with rain, which I think is sarcasm. Everyone present also felt that these two sentences were bland. It was not until he wrote the last two sentences that the girl burst into tears and smiled. After all, she was compared to the most beautiful begonia flower in Du Fu's heart, and all the people present at that time were amazed. This time, Dongpo, who has always been Zen, is naturally duty-bound to be asked by the old monk to write poems. However, although the old monk thinks he is a monk, he is a person with bad conduct in the local area and has no friendship with himself on weekdays. In the face of his repeated behavior, Dongpo gave him 20 words on the spot, which were two couplets and a riddle. The old monk was very proud when he got the word. He told people to hang it in front of the hall. Everyone looked distressed and laughed. Let's taste these 20 words: the sunset is red and fragrant, take off the normal heart and melt the cold in the furnace, so as to firmly hold the so-called swearing without dirty words. These 20 words are the best interpretation. The word "sunset fragrance" in the first four words is the word "day" in the word "fragrance", so the word "fragrance" is incomplete and is a word "grain". And "less worldly" means that the word "everything" has become several words, and the word 10 adds up to a bald word. In the second sentence, the word "furnace" has become the word "household", without the word "fire". The last six words "Zhayima" are a horse, and the two words "Hu" and "Ma" are tied tightly, and together they are a donkey, so these two words add up to the word "bald donkey". The old monk is ignorant and naturally can't see through the true meaning, but people who come and go have already seen through it. A woman with good virtue seeks poetry, and even if she is humble, Su Shi does not hesitate to praise her. In the face of the so-called monk with poor virtue, he is merciless, which is the true nature of Dongpo and the reason why he cannot be constantly deified in the literary world and among the people.