Why does Su Dongpo have such charm?

Su Dongpo is famous not only for his poems, essays and paintings, but also for his charisma. Let's take a look at the full text and translation of Dongpo's Back to the House in classical Chinese.

original text

Dongpo returned to the house.

In the first year of Zhong Jian, Dongpo returned from the north, and Buju admired him. Yang Xian's scholars are afraid to swim with them. Shao is an independent scholar. He learns from Poe. Poe likes his people, too. He always walks with crutches, crosses bridges and travels for fun.

Shao bought a house for Po with 2500 yuan, and Po had to pay for it himself. Buji (3) advanced the new (5), and it was a day. In the evening, I happen to coincide with Shao, and occasionally I go to the village and hear women crying very sadly. Slope leaned against it and said, "What a pity! Did you touch his inner love? I will ask. " Then he and Shao pushed in, and an old woman cried when she saw Poe. When Edgar Allan Poe asked what sorrow meant, he said, "My family has a house that has been handed down for a hundred years. I am too conservative to move, so that my son is a bad boy, so he dedicated it to everyone. I moved here today. I have lived here for one hundred years. Once I say goodbye, I'd rather not be sad! That's why I cry. " Slope is also sad. Ask him where his former residence is, and you will get 500 feet. Po 7 comforted him again and again, and ⑨ Xu said, "I don't need to feel deeply sad that Yi's former residence was sold by me. Now it is time to return it as a house. " I was the one who ordered the house certificate to be taken away and burned. Calling his son, he ordered his mother to go back to the old place the next day, but he didn't ask.

Slope naturally went back to piling, no longer buying a house, but took a temporary rest at Gutang Bridge.

Precautions:

1 Back from Danbei: Back from Danzhou. Dongpo was once demoted to another family in Qiongzhou to govern Danzhou.

2. wear a rope of copper coins, which means a string of copper coins here.

3 Buji: Divination and auspicious day.

4 Migration: Input

Fifth place: house

To: Finally.

7 reason: So

8 Tour: Exchange

X: Take your time.

10 both: select

1 1 different: strange

12 is: reason.

Translation:

Su Shi came back from Danzhou (now Danzhou, Hainan) and lived in Yangxian (now Yixing, Jiangsu). Officials in Yangxian county are afraid to associate with Dongpo. Only Shao, a scholar, learned it from Dongpo. Dongpo also likes this man and often teaches him to cross the bridge. Take pleasure in playing with mountains and rivers

Shao bought a house for him and spent 500 Jin (a string of copper coins). Dongpo spent all his savings and could barely cope. Later (Su Shi) chose a good day and moved into a new house. Once, Shao Min and I walked in the moonlight and came to a village by chance. I heard a woman crying very sadly. Dongpo listened attentively and said, "Strange, why is this woman crying so sadly?" What is so hard to give up that makes her so sad? I'll ask her. "So he and Shao pushed the door and went in. An old woman was still crying when she saw Dongpo. Dongpo asked her why she was crying, and the old woman said, "My family has a house for a hundred years, but my son is worthless and sold to others. "I moved here today. I lost my old house for hundreds of years. How can I not be sad? That's why I cry. " (So Dongpo) asked her where the original house was, but Dongpo bought it. Dongpo repeatedly comforted her and said, "I bought your old house. Don't be too sad. Now I'll give it back to you. " So someone took the deed and burned it in front of the old woman, and (and) called the old woman's son and ordered him to take his mother back to the old house the next day, but in the end he didn't ask for money.

Dongpo returned to Changzhou from then on, no longer buying a house, but borrowing the residence of Tangqiao Sun Family for a while.