Su Dongpo's story in Hangzhou

Su Dongpo's dredging in Hangzhou left a "paradise beauty". In the fourth year of Xining (A.D. 107 1 year), Su Dongpo was forced to leave Beijing and go to Hangzhou as a provincial judge because he wrote a letter against Wang Anshi's political reform. This is the first West Lake he visited in his life. When Su Dongpo was appointed as the judge of Hangzhou, he wrote a drunken book on June 27, describing the scenery of the West Lake: dark clouds can't cover the mountain, while white rain jumps over the boat. Suddenly, the wind rolled up and dispersed the clouds in the sky, and the lake was as beautiful and gentle as a mirror.

During his three years in Hangzhou, Su Dongpo traveled around places of interest in his spare time, leaving many well-known sayings. The two famous "Chu Qing on the Lake, Rain after Drinking" were written at this time. It can be seen that the West Lake left a deep impression on him. But when the three-year term arrives, Su Dongpo must leave Hangzhou; The rule that one place can no longer be an official may only leave Su Dongpo with endless thoughts and deep regrets about the West Lake.

However, Su Dongpo is lucky, and so is the West Lake. By mistake, after a long absence of 16, Su Dongpo obtained a bachelor's degree in Longtuge in the fourth year of Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1089), which became well-known in Hangzhou. This is Su Dongpo's blessing. For Hangzhou, this is a blessing. When Su Dongpo came to Hangzhou again, he found that the West Lake he missed day and night was overgrown with weeds, the lake was dry and muddy everywhere, nowhere to be found, and the mountain was empty.

Facing the decline of the West Lake, Su Dongpo lost his leisure. He made up his mind to dredge the West Lake and restore its beautiful scenery. So, he resolutely wrote to the court and requested to open the West Lake. However, if we really want to organize manpower to dredge the West Lake, we will face many difficulties. First of all, it takes a lot of money to manage the West Lake. where is the money to come from? Although the imperial court approved the request for dredging the West Lake, it only gave 65,438+000 copies of the viceroy (the monk's identity certificate) as funds. Su Dongpo used these 65,438,000 books to sell17,000 yuan, plus the surplus of famine relief10,000 yuan, to carry out a large-scale West Lake management project.

After the funding problem is solved, another bigger problem comes again: how to deal with a large amount of dredged sludge? Although Su Dongpo is a scholar and really does things, he is a doer. Through careful investigation of the West Lake and its surrounding environment, he skillfully turned waste into treasure-part of the sludge transported from the bottom of the lake was used as the bottom fertilizer of farmland, turning the original swamp into fertile farmland.

Then use the land to recruit social idlers and foreign farmers to farm, which not only makes those vagrants who steal chickens and dogs on weekdays become good citizens who behave themselves. Moreover, part of the harvest can be used to pay taxes and can also be used as the cost of lake management. Another part of the silt was piled up, and a long embankment connecting the north and south of the West Lake was built, and six bridges were built on the embankment to plant various flowers and trees.

In the spring season, peach blossoms reflect the sun, weeping willows brush the embankment, the lake turns into living water, and the West Lake adds beautiful scenery and is more convenient for pedestrians to pass. This long dike was named "Sugong Dike" by Hangzhou people; The Sixth Bridge is the famous Su Causeway Sixth Bridge, which has become a beautiful landscape of the West Lake.

In this regard, Su Dongpo has his own poem: Six bridges cross the Tianhan, and Beishan begins to meet Nanshan. Suddenly shocked 250 thousand feet, old fennel swept the sky! Regarding the dredging of the West Lake, Su Dongpo also wrote a poem "Opening the West Lake", which recorded this project: a great man asks for advice without asking for more, and extremes meet. Let turtles and fish return to green and clean, and be willing to let Xiao Wei block the slope ahead. Once a good thing can be inherited, a 100-foot cliff can still be ground The stars in the sky are also very happy, and the golden waves are bathed in the moonlight.

The West Lake has been well managed, and Su Dongpo's term of office has arrived. With endless nostalgia, he reluctantly left Hangzhou and bid farewell to his beloved West Lake. Since then, I have never been back to Hangzhou, and I have no chance to visit the West Lake again. However, the people of Hangzhou will always remember him, and the West Lake has deeply left the immortal figure of this great writer.

Extended data

Su Shi (1037 65438+10.8-18.24), whose real name is Zi Zhan, also known as He Zhong, was named Tieguan Taoist and Dongpo layman, and was known as Su Dongpo and Su Xian in the world. Han nationality, a native of Meishan, Meizhou (now Meishan City, Sichuan Province) and Luancheng, Hebei Province, was a writer and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The number of times Su Dongpo visited the West Lake:

1 year, in the fourth year of Xining, Su Shi was forced to leave Beijing and go to Hangzhou as a provincial judge because he opposed Wang Anshi's political reform. At the critical moment, Su Dongpo wrote "Drunk Book of Looking at the Lake Building on June 27th" to describe the scenery of the West Lake: dark clouds cover the mountains, while white rain jumps over the boat. Suddenly, the wind rolled up and dispersed the clouds in the sky, and the lake was as beautiful and gentle as a mirror.

2. yuan? In four years, Su Shi served as the magistrate of Hangzhou as a bachelor of Longtuge, and found that the West Lake, which he missed day and night, was overgrown with weeds, the lake was dry, muddy everywhere, and there was nowhere to look for it. Shan Ye was empty. Facing the scene of decline, Su Dongpo lost his leisure and made up his mind to dredge the West Lake.

3. yuan? In the sixth year of Zhongping, Su Shi was demoted to Yingzhou. There is also a West Lake in the northwest of Yingzhou City, which is ten miles long and two miles wide. The scenery is excellent, and Su Dongpo often feasts here, leaving many poems. He once compared Yingzhou West Lake with Hangzhou West Lake and lamented that "everything is reduced to a dust, and no one knows who is a man or a woman".

References:

Su Dongpo has been to West Lake several times in his life-Xinhuanet Su Shi-Baidu Encyclopedia.