Have you ever met an optimist in your life? Is it the kind that shines with a little sunshine? Have you ever met someone who can shine without sunshine? That man is Su Dongpo, a hopeless optimist.
Why are you unhappy in life? Just because you don't know Su Dongpo, Su Dongpo can always find a bright color in his sad life. Opening Lin Yutang's Biography of Su Dongpo will provide you with an efficient self-salvation and cure scheme.
Lin Yutang's Biography of Su Dongpo vividly tells many anecdotes about Su Dongpo, which makes you know an interesting soul that is one in a million.
When he was demoted to Huangzhou, people in the upper class ate beef and mutton, but Dongpo didn't have this condition, so he invented Dongpo pork and pork ode, which read, "Clean iron pot, lack of water, can't afford firewood." Don't rush him when he is ripe, he will be beautiful when the heat is enough. Huangzhou good pork, the price is as low as dirt, you refuse to eat, the poor don't know how to cook, get up in the morning and cook two bowls, so full that you can't even eat. "The process of slowly stewing pork with firewood is very detailed in the poem, which can be operated and can also provide a glimpse of the social situation in Huangzhou at that time in the Song Dynasty.
It can be seen from Ode to Pork that Dongpo invented and enjoyed delicious food. His casual and honest character makes people ignore the pain of his demotion, but he is infected by his carefree feelings of enjoying food to the fullest. Life is too short to know. Why not learn from Dongpo's feeling that "this peace of mind is home"?
Watch "First Arriving in Huangzhou". "I laughed all my life for my mouth, but my old career became ridiculous. The Yangtze River knows the beauty of fish everywhere, and bamboo is fragrant with bamboo shoots. " Did it arouse your appetite and think of fresh fish and fragrant bamboo shoots?
In Er Yun Zi Ri, Qin only cooks mutton soup, and there is bear wax in the dragon. "Mutton soup" is probably the mutton soup in Shaanxi, and now it is the "shoulder handle" of Shaanxi famous food. He also invented "Dongpo Roasted Lamb Ridge", which was slightly burnt and carefully picked out to eat, but it made "the dogs waiting to be fed are not pleasing to the eye". Joke makes people smile.
Besides, he has his own Dongpo soup, honey wine and so on. If the Song Dynasty comments on "The Temptation on the Tip of the Tongue", Dongpo cuisine comes first. Wherever he was exiled, he simply ate something, and he was always satisfied with this situation. No matter what kind of cracks you are in, Dongpo is alive and well. Only an interesting soul can become a real practitioner of world cuisine.
After Huangzhou, Dongpo returned to Beijing under the command of Empress Dowager Cixi, and became the "Tai Shang Huang", the teacher of the little emperor, deeply loved by scholars and became the literary leader at that time. "Four Bachelor of Su Family" was famous in Beijing at that time, and the Su Family Courtyard was full of guests, full of poetry and wine, and had a happy life. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. After the death of the Queen Mother, she was persecuted by her political enemies and was expelled from Beijing again. Even on the road to exile, he received the imperial edict of exile again and again, and almost fell into the abyss of perdition.
This time it was in a more remote Huizhou. Dongpo, 59, was banished to Huizhou, Guangdong. Lingnan was a dangerous place at that time, and Huizhou was deserted. Dongpo is over sixty years old and may die in Huizhou. Su Dongpo decided to go to Huizhou without his family. What moved Dongpo was that one of his concubines, named Chaoyun, was determined to follow him to Huizhou and climb mountains to Huizhou.
Huizhou has beautiful mountains and rivers and beautiful scenery. Dongpo didn't expect that when he first arrived in Huizhou, he saw many Huizhou people warmly welcome him. Su Dongpo was moved, so he wrote "Arriving in Huizhou for the First time" in an essay: "It seems that I have been dreaming, and I am glad that the chickens and dogs know Xinfeng. The government and the people are all surprised by what they have done, and the father and the old man are facing each other. " I have been to Huizhou once, otherwise all the chickens and dogs know me and everyone welcomes me.
Su Dongpo lived in a humble room and was optimistic by nature, and soon adapted to the life in Huizhou. He still thinks Huizhou is also beautiful, lamenting that the lychee that Yang Guifei could only eat in those days can now be eaten every day. So I wrote this widely circulated poem: "300 lychees a day, I will grow up to be a Lingnan person."
He hasn't been in Huizhou for a long time, but he has done a lot of practical things for the people of Huizhou. At that time, there was a river in Huizhou, and people came and went on both sides, only a broken pontoon bridge. Every year, the tragedy of drowning occurs, which makes Dongpo sleepless. He must build a bridge, but he has no money. He wrote to mobilize his younger brother to donate money, and his younger brother gave him all his money to help. When the new bridge was built, the people were moved and scrambled to invite Dongpo to dinner. "If you can't drink for three days, you will kill all the chickens in the West Village." You can see your love for Dongpo. Building dams and so on.
When Dongpo summed up his achievements in his later years, he looked back at Huizhou and wrote: "Ask your career, Huangzhou Huizhou Danzhou." Life has given him many twists and turns, and his feelings of actively joining the WTO have not changed.
A 62-year-old man was exiled to Hainan. At that time, it was a wild place, full of bugs, cockroaches and poisonous snakes. "No meat, no medicine, no house, no friends and no carbon in winter" is really nothing, it's terrible. But Su Dongpo found that the oysters there were delicious, so he wrote to his son that the oysters here were delicious, so don't tell anyone, lest Li Chao's political enemies come to rob me. I have no food again.
When the prime minister Zhang learned about Su Dongpo's situation, he was greatly dissatisfied. "Is Su Zizhan happy?" It is said that Dongpo actually lives in an official residence, which is actually an old house next to the county official residence. He was ordered to expel Dongpo from the official residence, so Dongpo built a shack in the coconut grove and got the help of some literati. Behind the house is the betel nut grove, so he named the humble room "Betel nut Temple", which is really a hopeless optimist.
Even Song Zhezong remembered Dongpo and recalled him to North Korea. When I left, I wrote a poem: I don't hate nine people who died in the south, and I will swim for the rest of my life. How can I go to Sanya if I have not been demoted here?
There are no relatives or friends here, so I'll find someone to chat and tell ghost stories on Dongpo Road. There is really no more, so let passers-by make up. Finally, the two people who made them up laughed at each other.
Su Dongpo spent his whole life in prison, being demoted and demoted again. Among more than 3,000 poems, 344 poems are "laughing", which defeated a group of people and degraded the guests. Some poets and writers are far less miserable than Su Dongpo. Their poems and articles are full of sadness and seldom happy. If you want to travel in this life, you can't be a partner like Li Bai, you can't be bohemian and insecure, and you can't form a donkey friend with Du Fu. Too serious and formal, you can always care about your country and people. Come to Su Dongpo, he is a good traveling companion, because he has an interesting soul and can overcome all the disappointments in the world.