Su Dongpo's dredging in Hangzhou left a "paradise beauty". In the fourth year of Xining (A.D. 107 1), Su Dongpo was forced to leave Beijing and go to Hangzhou as a general 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 a judge in Hangzhou, he wrote an article "Drunken Book" on June 27th, describing the scenery of the West Lake: dark clouds turned over the ink and failed to cover the mountain, while white rain jumped off the boat. Suddenly, the wind rolled up and dispersed the clouds in the sky. The lake was blue as a mirror, beautiful and gentle.
During his three years in Hangzhou, Su Dongpo traveled around places of interest in his spare time, leaving many famous sayings. Two famous songs, Rain after Drinking Chuqing Lake, 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 regret for the West Lake.
However, Su Dongpo is lucky, and so is the West Lake. After a long absence of 16, Su Dongpo was appointed as the magistrate of Hangzhou in four years (AD 1089) with a bachelor's degree from Longtuge. 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, which he missed day and night, was overgrown with weeds, 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 beauty. 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 100 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 remaining10,000 yuan from the disaster relief fund, to carry out a large-scale West Lake management project.
The problem of funds has been solved, and another bigger problem has come again: how to deal with a large amount of dredged sludge? Su Dongpo, though a scholar, did make a difference, but he was a doer. Through careful investigation of the West Lake and its surrounding environment, he skillfully turned waste into treasure-a part of silt was transported from the bottom of the lake as the bottom fertilizer of farmland, turning the original swamp into fertile farmland.
Then use these lands to attract social idlers and foreign farmers to come to agriculture, which not only makes those vagrants who steal chickens and dogs on weekdays become well-behaved citizens. Moreover, part of the harvest can be used to pay taxes, and it can also be used as the cost of lake management. The other part of the silt piled up and built a long embankment connecting the north and south of the West Lake. Six bridges were built on the embankment to plant all kinds of flowers and trees.
In the spring season, peach blossoms reflect the sun, weeping willows brush the embankment, and the lake becomes living water. 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 himself has a poem: the six bridges span the Tianhan, and the northern mountain begins to meet the southern mountain. Suddenly shocked 250 thousand feet, old fennel swept the sky! Regarding the dredging of the West Lake, Su Dongpo also wrote the poem "Opening the West Lake", which recorded this project: great men ask for advice without asking for more, and things must be different. Let the turtles and fish return to green and clean, and be willing to let Xiao Wei stop 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 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, people in Hangzhou will always remember him, and the West Lake has deeply left the immortal figure of this great writer.
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Su Shi (1037 65438+10.8-124.8), whose real name is Zi Zhan, also known as He Zhong, is a Taoist priest of tin cans and a layman of Dongpo, and is known as Su Dongpo and Su Xian in the world. Han nationality, a native of Meishan, Meizhou (now Meishan, Sichuan) and Luancheng, Hebei, was a writer, calligrapher 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 general because he opposed Wang Anshi's political reform. When Su Dongpo went to the appointment, he wrote "Drunk Book of Looking at the Lake Building on June 27th" to describe the scenery of the West Lake: dark clouds turn over the ink, but white rain jumps into the boat. Suddenly, the wind rolled up and dispersed the clouds in the sky. The lake was blue as a mirror, beautiful and gentle.
2. Yuan? In four years, Su Shi took Bachelor Longtuge as the magistrate of Hangzhou, and found that the West Lake, which he missed day and night, was overgrown with weeds, dry and muddy everywhere, and nowhere to be found, and the mountains were 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 the Republic of China, Su Shi was demoted to be well-known in 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 "a thousand things are all in one dust, and no one knows the sex".
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Su Dongpo has been to several West Lakes in his life-Xinhuanet Su Shi-Baidu Encyclopedia.