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——"Huanxi Sha?Xumen Shitan Xie Yudao Works"

In the spring of the first year of Yuanfeng (1078) of Song Shenzong, Su Shi was in Xuzhou, because there was no rain for a long time, he led his subordinates and the people to pray for rain in Xumen Shitan, 20 miles east of the city. At the beginning of summer, Su Taishou brought people to express his gratitude to the Dragon King, and wrote a set of "Huanxi Sha", which was leisurely and complacent. At this time, although he was guilty and was excluded from the political group in the DPRK, he seemed far from so unlucky.

The Wutai poetry case and the derogation of Huangzhou were a year later.

The blow was fatal for Su Shi: he was framed, imprisoned, tortured, and almost lost his life. After the queen mother's intercession, Su Shi was pardoned, fled the capital as the deputy envoy of the regimental training, and was sent to that wild place (Huangzhou). The comfort of his friends cannot be counted on, because since his accident, more than 30 people have been implicated among his friends, and more than 100 poems have been submitted to the government. Many people have long been frightened, and they have pointed to the sky, swore curses, and completely drew a line with Su Shi - they are afraid to avoid it......

The soul and the body are both ravaged. Su Shi's life fell to the lowest point.

However, the year 1078 was much better, when Su Shi was 43 years old, in the prime of life, and had not yet suffered vicious accusations. He did some practical things for the people during his tenure in Xuzhou. At the beginning of summer, he went to Xumen Longtan to "thank the rain", passing through the countryside, and the village women rushed to watch the envoy, so that "they stepped on the skirt of Siluo in a row". The layers of hemp leaves, the leaves are shining, and the laughter of the silk reeling village girls can be heard through the fence, and the old man with the cane quinoa raises his drunken eyes, while in another place, the hard-working housewife steam the dry food with the sweet taste of new wheat noodles!

How close to peace.

But just one year later, everything is different.

The lack of moon hangs dredging paulownia, and the initial tranquility of people is missing. Who sees a lonely person coming and going, ethereal and lonely. Shocked but turned back, there was hatred and no one to think. Picking up all the cold branches and refusing to perch, the lonely sandbar is cold.

——"Fortune Operator: Huangzhou Dinghui Courtyard Residence"

On the first day of the first month of the third year of Yuanfeng (1080), Su Shi left the capital and went to Huangzhou, a poor town on the edge of the Yangtze River.

After a month's trek, on the first day of the second lunar month, Su Shi arrived in Huanggang. At first, he had no fixed residence, so he borrowed to live in Joein. Dinghuiyuan is a small temple located in the southeast of Huangzhou, on a densely wooded hillside, some way from the river. He ate and stayed with the monks, and after lunch and dinner, he always liked to walk around the temple.

"Fortune Operator: Huangzhou Dinghui Yuan Residence" was written around this period.

After the Wutai poetry case, Su Shi was tortured and on the verge of death, and he was ready to die in prison. At this time, although he was lucky to be released from prison, the fear still exists; wandering in a foreign land, the cold nights are bleak, he can't sleep, and the lonely Hong who "picks up all the cold branches and refuses to live", and the ethereal and helpless lonely Hong has touched how many unspeakable hidden pains in the poet's heart!

After the family arrived, Su Shi's life seemed to settle down.

Although he has the micro-post of "deputy envoy of regimental training" on his head, he has no rights, is not allowed to leave without authorization, and has no right to sign official documents, which is equivalent to a prisoner in disguise. Fortunately, the salary is still paid. Although it is not much, it is better than nothing, otherwise I really don't know how to deal with it?

In the fourth year of Yuanfeng (1081), life began to be embarrassed, and Su Shi really farmed. He worked in a field on the eastern slope and called himself "the monk of the eastern slope". Wearing a hat on his head, a plough rake, and coarse cloth clothes, he stood on the edge of the field in the form of a pastoral chant repeatedly chanted by hermits throughout the ages.

This field is in the east of Huangzhou, covering an area of about ten acres, with rice fields, wheat fields, mulberry forest vegetable gardens, and a large orchard. Tea trees were also planted elsewhere on the eastern slope and houses were built. Su Shi originally wanted to abandon his official position and become a farmer in the past, but he did not expect to become a farmer under such circumstances. In the preface to "Eight Songs of Dongpo", it says: "...... The camp is dozens of acres,...... Plough into it. The land has been barren for a long time, and it is a field of rubble, and the year is drought, and the labor of reclamation is exhausted. "The bitterness is known.

Drink Dongpo at night to wake up and get drunk, and return as if it were three watches. The child's snort was thunderous. Don't knock on the door, lean on the stick and listen to the sound of the river. I hate this body for a long time, when will I forget the camp! The boat passed away, and the river and sea sent the rest of his life.

——"Linjiang Immortals: Returning to Lingao at Night"

Su Dongpo himself is good at cooking and likes to drink.

When he was in Huangzhou, pork was very cheap, but many local people were not good at cooking, the so-called "rich people refuse to eat, poor people do not understand cooking". Su Shi told others a method of stewing pork, which is simple to apply, wash, cut into pieces, boil with very little water, and simmer for a few hours. Soy sauce, of course. This is the "Dongpo meat" that is braised and passed down to future generations.

Sometimes he came out with bamboo canes and shoes, and in the riverside towns, he was in the company of fishermen and spent his time. In the meantime, he drank a glass of light local wine, or wandered aimlessly, and was pushed and scolded by the drunks in the wine shop, but instead of being angry, he was happy in his heart: "Self-satisfaction is gradually unknown." ”

After getting drunk on another night tour, Su Shi returned to Lingao drunken and filled in a "Linjiang Immortal". It spread, but it startled Taishou. Because he has the duty to monitor Su Dongpo, he is not allowed to leave the country without authorization. Taishou immediately sent someone to check, and it turned out that Su Shi was still in bed and had not gotten up, snoring like thunder.

In the sixth year of Yuanfeng (1083), Su Shi gave birth to a son, whose name was Dun'er. Three days after giving birth, Su Dongpo wrote a poem and talked about self-deprecation:

Everyone has adopted a son to be smart, and I have been mistaken by being clever all my life,

I hope that the child will be foolish and reckless, and there will be no disaster and no difficulty to the minister.

Su Shi seems to have changed. Gradually, the impatient, sharp, and sharp-edged angry youth of the past disappeared, and was replaced by a warm, tolerant, witty, and kind middle-aged man. In this atmosphere, Dongpo felt more and more like Tao Qian (Yuanming), an idyllic poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and he even believed that Tao Qian must be his predecessor. In addition to farming, Su Shi wrote many idyllic poems, and reorganized Tao's "Words of Return", sang according to the folk songs, and taught everyone to sing together.

——Around the fifth year of Yuanfeng (1082), Su Dongpo wrote the most important and beautiful chapters in his life: "Nian Nujiao, Chibi Nostalgia", "Ji Chengtian Temple Night Tour", and "Chibi Fu" before and after.

Huangzhou may be a small and dirty town, but in the sublimation and reinvention of the poet, everything has become shining. (To be continued.) )