Brotherhood between Su Shi and Su Zhe

Su Shi is three years older than Su Zhe, and the two brothers have been hand in hand since childhood, and when they grow up, they are even more troubled.

Su Zhe said that brother "helps me to be a brother, and teaches me to be a teacher"; Su Shi thinks that his younger brother is "my brother, but also a wise friend", and even said that his younger brother's article is better than his own. "The son is better than the servant because of his literary content, but the secular does not know it, so he thinks it is not as good as it is."

how close are the two brothers? The Biography of Su Zhe in the History of Song Dynasty records: "Zhe and his brother have the same origin. In times of trouble, they are friendly and affectionate, and there is no shortage of resentment, which is rare in recent times."

this is a very high evaluation.

You know, from ancient times to the present, there are many negative teaching materials about brothers turning against each other and their brothers killing each other, not to mention the examples of Cao Zhi and Cao Pi. Take the Song Dynasty as an example, there were many brothers who lived in the same dynasty, but few of them lived in Together Brothers through hardships like the Su brothers.

Like Ceng Gong, one of the eight masters in the Tang and Song Dynasties, he was a minister of the "old party" in the DPRK, but his younger brother Ceng Bu was the backbone of the "new party" and another brother Zeng Zhao was an important role of the "old party". Because of political differences, the brothers were very unhappy. Cai Jing, a treacherous court official in the late Northern Song Dynasty, and Cai Bian, his younger brother, were both "new parties", but they fought for interests and later became incompatible.

By contrast, the brotherhood of the Su brothers is really amazing!

Because they get together less and leave more after their official career, the two brothers often pass books by Hongyan, and they have never stopped for decades.

Almost every time Su Shi went to any office, he sent letters and poems to his younger brother. There were more than 1 poems with the theme of "Ziyou", such as Show Ziyou, Bieziyou and Heziyou Poems.

Su Shi likes to play jokes on his younger brother. In the poem "The Actor's Way", he wrote: "Mr. Wanqiu is as long as a hill, and the Wanqiu Academy is as small as a boat.

I often bow my head to recite the history of scripture, but suddenly I don't reach out to the room. " This means that Zi You's children's shoes are too tall and the house he lives in is too small. If he stretches out, his head will hit the roof beam.

(Su Shi, it is wrong for you to hurt your brother like this. Is it wrong for him to be taller than you? )

The brotherhood between Su Shi and Su Zhe was called a much-told story at that time.

According to the records of people in the Northern Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu likes to make friends, so he often recites Kong Rong's poem, "The guests are always full, and the wine in the bottle is not empty".

Fan Zhongyan likes to talk about soldiers, so he often recites Wei Yingwu's poem "outside are insignia, shown in state, Yan sleeps with suspicion and fragrance".

And what is Su Shi's favorite poem to recite?

it means "I'd rather know the stormy night, so I can sleep in bed".

This is a line from the poem "Showing the Truth, Yuan Chang" by Wei Yingwu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.

Su Shi and Su Zhe read this poem when they were young, and they were deeply moved. They agreed to retire from their posts as soon as possible, and the brothers would go home to reunite and sleep in bed, listening to the rainy night in Xiaoxiang.

Su Shi's most famous poems are inseparable from Su Zhe.

Mid-Autumn Festival is a very important festival in China.

On the night of a full moon, the greatest happiness is that the whole family get together and enjoy the moon while eating moon cakes. At this moment, the most appropriate thing is Su Shi's masterpiece "When will the moon shine?", especially the last few words:

People have joys and sorrows, and the moon is full of rain and shine, which is an ancient and difficult thing.

I wish people a long life, and thousands of miles away.

For thousands of years, there have been countless works of chanting the moon in Mid-Autumn Festival, but since the word Su Shi came out, all other works have been eclipsed.

So, who does Su Shi miss in this poem that deeply misses his loved ones?

the answer is: su zhe.

because the subtitle of this word is: Bingchen Mid-Autumn Festival, drinking too much, getting drunk, writing this article, and having a baby.

When a person is drunk, he deeply misses another person, so this person definitely occupies an extremely important position in his life.

For Su Shi, this person is Su Zhe.

When he wrote this word, he and Su Zhe had not seen each other for six years.

We don't know Su Zhe's mood when he saw the word "Brother". All we know is that this song "Shuidiao Tou" has been in all the Chinese textbooks of middle schools since then.

at the beginning of the third year of Yuanfeng (18), Su Shi was demoted as the deputy envoy of Huangzhou Yong ying.

In May of the same year, Su Zhe sent his brother's family to Huangzhou, accompanied by Su Shi to visit Chibi.

It's rare for the two brothers to get together. They are having a drink in Chitou, Chibi, and enjoying the vast river and sky.

Su Zhe couldn't help but write a poem on the spot, saying:

The water army in Jingzhou has been newly broken, and the summer breath is like a cloud.

thousands of ships have been endangered by the Yangtze river, and the people know that Chibi is burning.

Gou is going to have a fight with Fang Qiang, and the monarch and his subjects have decided to score three points.

in ancient times, it was necessary to cut off the country, and it was unheard of to succeed in Italy.

This is a nostalgic poem in the standard sense, with a clear theme, that is, it draws a lesson from the history of Battle of Red Cliffs: you can't rely on the strength of military power to attack a country that has no disorderly and immoral behavior.

Objectively speaking, this poem is well written. If it is sung by a group of literati, it may even win the first prize.

So, Su Zhe looked at his brother with anticipation, hoping that his brother would give him a compliment.

After all, in the eyes of others, Su Zhe is like a schoolmaster. But in front of his godlike brother, Su Zhe is still not confident enough.

su Shi smiled: "ziyou, this poem is well written, and I just thought of a word to make peace with you." Say, call the boy to spread paper and grind ink, and write it down in a while.

nian nu jiao chi bi reminisces about the past

river of no return, a romantic figure with all the waves washed away.

to the west of the old base, humanity is the Red Cliff in Zhou Lang.

Stones go through the air, and the waves beat on the shore, rolling up thousands of piles of snow.

the landscape is picturesque, and there are many heroes at one time!

Back in Gong Jin, Xiao Qiao was married for the first time, handsome and handsome, with a feather fan and a black ribbon scarf, talking and laughing.

I wander in my old country, and I am passionate about Ying Xiao Wo, so I was born early.

life is like a dream, and one bottle will return to the moon.

From then on, this word was regarded as the first among the unconstrained schools of Song poetry.

As brothers who grew up playing together, Su Shi and Su Zhe knew each other and treated each other with sincerity.

in the tenth year of Xining (177), the Su brothers got together in Xuzhou seven years later, and they wrote poems to each other.

Su Zhe advised his elder brother, "I'm always afraid of frankness and indulge myself.".

(Don't be too frank in your personality, don't be too unrestrained in your articles, and be careful of being caught by others.

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Su Shi is concerned about the difficulties of his younger brother's family. "There are six girls in the forest, wrapped in cloth and Jing.

You don't have to worry about your wife, but you can cook with Chenopodium album. " Although I have six daughters, thanks to my sister-in-law.

Although I eat clothes and vegetables, I am philosophical by nature. Even if I don't cook in the morning tomorrow, I will still thunder.

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Su Shi once said that his younger brother's articles are better than his own praise, and he once said to Su Zhe, "I regard contemporary scholars as my only son." Although this tone is big, it is a bit "the hero of the world, but the monarch and the ear!" The feeling of, but also can see that his brother learned value.

But Su Zhe inherited it, and after Su Shi lived in Huangzhou, "Dumen lived in a deep place, galloping in calligraphy, and his writing changed, like a Sichuan style, but he couldn't reach it." The meaning is almost the same. After my brother was demoted to Huangzhou, he closed his doors and practiced bravely. He has become a peerless master who can get through the second pulse of Ren Du, and he has been far behind.

The biggest disaster that Su Shi encountered in his life was the Wutai Poetry Case, which was a typical literary prison.

In the words of Liu Anshi, a contemporary, "What is Dongpo's crime? The name alone is too high, and it competes with the court. "

as the saying goes, a friend in need is a friend indeed.

After Su Shi went to prison, most of his friends were afraid to speak for him.

Su Zhe's life was also sad because of his involvement, but he not only didn't complain at all, but also took his brother's family to his home to settle down, and repeatedly wrote to the Emperor Shenzong that he was willing to quit his official position to atone for his brother.

In prison, Su Shi was tortured by the imperial censor, and once thought that he was born to die, so he wrote two desperate poems and sent them to Su Zhe, one of which is as follows:

The Lord is like heaven and everything is spring, and the little minister is stupid and secretly dies.

it's more tiring to pay your debts before the end of a hundred years.

It's a green hill where bones can be buried, and the rain alone hurts the spirit.

Being brothers with Jun for the rest of your life is even more important.

in the poem, Su Shi entrusted his brother with the future, just like a will.

But at the end of the poem, Su Shi takes us to the peak of expressing brotherly love: "Being brothers with Jun for the rest of your life is even more important." Although the catastrophe of time and space will make everything in the great era disappear, the brotherhood will last forever in the cycle of death and life!

It is said that Emperor Shenzong also read this poem and was moved by compassion, so he pardoned Su Shi's capital crime and demoted him to Huangzhou Yong Lian.

Since then, there has been a lack of a top official in the Northern Song Dynasty, but in the history of China literature, Su Dongpo, a literary scholar, has been reborn!