What is Su Shi's attitude towards life

Su Shi's human attitude

I, Su Shi's profile

The word Zizhan, and the word and Zhong, the number of Dongpo Jushi, the Northern Song Dynasty Meishan (now belongs to the city of Meishan, Sichuan Province), Meishan, Meizhou, an important Song Dynasty literati and politician, whose works are representative of the highest achievements of the Song Dynasty literature. His works are representative of the highest literary achievements of the Song Dynasty. His works have a wide range of subjects, fresh and robust, and make good use of hyperbole and metaphor, unique style, with his father Su Xun, his brother, together with the eight great masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, collectively known as the "Three Su", and Huang Tingjian, also known as the "Su Huang". He and his brother Su Xun were among the Eight Great Poets of the Tang and Song dynasties, and together with Huang Tingjian they were called "Su Huang". He is the author of "Seven Collections of Dongpo", "Dongpo Yi Zhuan" and "Dongpo Lefu". Su Shi had several ups and downs in his life, and because he insisted on his own views in many political struggles in the Northern Song Dynasty, he was demoted and dismissed many times, and was once in exile in Huangzhou, Huiyang and Danzhou. Although after so many ups and downs of the eunuchs, but in Su Shi's literary works is very difficult to find depressed, pessimistic, sighing work, but instead is to show a kind of laissez-faire nature, free and open-minded spiritual outlook. Why did Su Shi have such an attitude towards life, and what adversity did Su Shi experience? By analyzing Su Shi's open-mindedness in adversity, we can better understand the indomitable part of the spirit of Chinese literati.

Two, Su Shi's human attitude

Su Shi's solution to life's sorrows is unusually rounded and thorough, but it does not lead him to nothingness and negativity, and the positive world is still the dominant tendency of his life. Su Shi's attitude towards life, manifested in the following four aspects:

(a) not afraid of power, regardless of the benefits and harms, with a strong sense of social responsibility to participate in politics, politics

Su Shi's teenage years, actively concerned about the society of the people and customs of the Northern Song Dynasty's political measures, the gradual formation of the Northern Song Dynasty, the accumulation of poverty and weakness of the situation of deep concern. In his early years, he submitted 25 essays to the court, expressing his political thoughts. When he was the signing judge of Fengxiang Prefecture, he also wrote papers such as Thoughts on Governance, proposing that the way to change the reality of poverty and weakness was to innovate the bad governance. Wang Anshi was a statesman with a keen interest in the affairs of the country and an enterprising spirit. In the early years of Emperor Shenzong, Wang Anshi implemented the reform of the law, and Su Shi wrote a letter to oppose it. As a result, he became a local official because he was not allowed by the new party. However, this setback did not make Su Shi to restrain his sharpness. After Sima Guang came to power in the first year of Emperor Yuan's reign, Su Shi was transferred to Beijing to become a minister of the Central Committee and a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, which, together with his own personal friendship with Sima Guang, meant that he could naturally rise to great heights in the future. However, he was appointed as the first month, February, and Sima Guang on the advantages and disadvantages of the law, causing Sima Guang upset, March was removed, October by Zhu Guangting impeachment, and then convicted. Therefore, Su Shi in the years of political struggle and power struggle, has been playing a strange role. Whether the old party or the new party came to power, he did not please. But it is here that a fundamental aspect of his character as a human being is reflected. That is, throughout his life, he always dared to stick to his own views on the political affairs of the country, regardless of whether his opinions were correct or not, refused to be a smooth bureaucrat, did not follow blindly, did not show favoritism, and always maintained the spirit of making a clear distinction between black and white, and between what is inside and what is outside. As a scholar rich in social responsibility, he had a firm and persistent character.

(2) Concern for the people's plight, and endeavor to promote the interests of the people

Confucianism, as the core of traditional Chinese culture, has the spirit of worry as one of its main humanistic spirits. Confucius said: "The gentleman is not worried about poverty, but about the way. This positive and worldly character of worrying about the way of the world, so that the spirit of worrying about the country and pitying the people can be upgraded, but with the integration of benevolence. Su Shi inherited this traditional spirit of worrying about the country and the people and benevolence, but also some of the light, its people's feelings are more broad and sincere. It is based on this kind of people's feelings, Su Shi to the majority of people in the natural disasters under the abuse of the life of the pain given a full reflection and deep sympathy. What is more valuable is that, in his term as a magistrate for more than 20 years, whether in good times or bad times are always as always for the people to do good things, to serve as a government official, to benefit a party. In Hangzhou, leading the people to control locusts and floods. In Mizhou, he opened warehouses to release grain, adopted abandoned children, and submitted a petition to the court for the people. In Xuzhou, he opened the iron ban and cured sick prisoners. When the Yellow River breaks, personally guard the city gate, vowed to survive with Xuzhou city and the people **** ...... Su Shi life for the people everywhere to do a lot of good things, won the people's love. Hangzhou many people's homes are enshrined Su Shi's portrait, every day to him to worship, remembering his merits.

Three, Su Shi in the adversity of the performance of the spirit of openness

Openness of the human attitude of the Chinese literati in the face of adversity, an optimistic performance, the literati throughout the ages, such as Ruan Ji's free and easy, Li Bai's bullying, Ouyang Xiu's play games and so on, so openness is not unique Su Shi, but Su Shi's openness and other literati have the essence of the difference. Su Shi's open-mindedness is not because of the poor career and moved elsewhere, but to maintain a long time a positive and enterprising and build a career mentality, never give up the ideal of saving the world and help the world, its Danzhou school can be seen in this characteristic. Su Shi was able to combine the open-mindedness and active participation in the world organically, which is inseparable from his ideological composition. Su Shi's thought contains the ideas of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, and he was able to integrate them. Su Shi received a good Confucian education from an early age and set a lifelong ambition to help the world. Although he was able to be open-minded in the face of the trough, he could not avoid the regret of not repaying the king's kindness and not being able to fulfill his ambition, "I am well versed in the world and I want to shrink my hand, and I am ashamed to return to the field without repaying the lord's kindness". But Confucianism also advocates the poor is good alone, it is not difficult to understand why Su Shi has repeatedly to leave the capital to serve, away from the political whirlpool. Confucianism advocates loyalty and self-improvement, but also to support Su Shi through the ups and downs of one of the beliefs, its low period is always ready to enter the world, he has never really retired and return to the field, "with the shed from time to time, the line hide in my sleeve hand why not look at the idle place. The body is long and healthy, but you swim for years, and fight bottle before three".

Four, Conclusion

Su Shi not only left a lot of literary works, but also left a kind of open-minded attitude towards life, is a valuable spiritual wealth. With this kind of open-minded attitude, you can really get rid of the world's disturbances, get a kind of spiritual freedom, so that you can better recognize the reality, with a positive and optimistic attitude to do things, which is also Su Shi's thought shining in this world of the gold and jade.