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1、中国诗人苏轼 Su Shi相关搜索: 苏轼, 中国, Shi, 诗人The Chinese literator and poet Su Shi lived from AD 1037 to 1101. During his life, he created many works. He was perhaps most famous for his poems, but he also wrote many essays and was famous in the officialdom. I admire Su Shi because he has made a great contribut
2、ion to the literature and was tough even when facing troubles.In Chinese history, Su Shi, together with his brother Su Zhe and father Su Xun, were all famous and were called Three Sus. But Su Shis contribution was the greatest. He not only created wonderful works, but also did many good things for c
3、ommon people when he was an officer. Today, there is still a Su Bank in Hangzhou Province.Because of Sus talent, Su was envied and was relegated to Huangzhou, a poor place. Even when Su was there, he didnt lose his spirit for the life. Whats more, his poems created at that time was even better. Sus
4、time has past, but his spirit lives forever.Su Shi, who appears as a star in Song Dynasty, lights up my heart and soul with his great spirit. Whenever I meet difficulties, I can hear him saying, “Be hopeful and powerful, believe you can face the reality!”(蘇東坡傳)英文簡介林語堂转帖The Gay Genius: The Life and T
5、imes of Su Tungpo(蘇東坡傳) Lin Yutang 林語堂簡介而已。THE GAY GENIUS (The Life and Times of Su Tungpo), Lin Yutang, The John DayCompany, New York, 1947.It is obvious that Lin Yutang greatly admired this outstanding Sung poet.His book is a remarkably enchanting tribute to this versatile and highlyethical person
6、ality. As a traditional landscape painting, this biography,four hundred pages long, unrolls scene by charming scene, revealing thisso splendid spirit, this irrepresible human-hearted soul embellishing thearts, striving to save lives, adorning the many places he was pulled anddriven in the turbulent
7、politics of his time.The preface (pages vii-xi) and the introductory chapter, LiteraryPatriotic Duke (pp. 1-13), present the enormous appreciation this sincereand outspoken advisor has enjoyed for some nine centuries. Their core isEmperor Shiaotsungs page long preface to Sus complete works. Seventyy
8、ears after Sus death, the Emperor wrote: We sigh at the appearance of such a rare genius and are shocked at his suffering from his detractors. He was banished across the seas and mountains. What could not be taken away from him was his sturdy integrity. We regret not being born at the same time with
9、 him in order to make full use of his talents as a counselor of kings. p. 9Chapter Two, Meishan (pp. 14-22), introduces the reader to the townwhere Su Tung-po was born and to his father, Su Shun, brother, Su Cheh(Tseyu), and grandfather. It mentions the eloquence of the inhabitants ofSzechuan, the r
10、eckoning of age (one is born one and is two on ones firstNew Years Day), the ancient custom forbidding one to say or write thepersonal name of ones father or grandfather. Hence, Su Tung-po usedforward instead of preface and Ssu-ma Chien avoided talk.Chapter Three, Childhood and Youth (pp. 23-33), ex
11、plores the early yearsof Su Tung-po, mentions his attending a school with more than a hundredpupils, the memorization of Classics and History, including Sus copyingout complete text, the invention of printing, Chinese naming conventions,Sus legendary younger sister and the family feud occasioned by
12、the earlydeath of his actual older sister. shortly after her marriage.Chapter Four, The Examinations (pp. 34-43), begins with Sus marriage,his journey with his father and brother to Chengtu, the provincial capitaland thence to the national metropolis, where they saw the sights of thesplendid city, m
13、et people and the brothers wrote their examinations. The candidates were examined first on questions of history or principles of government. There was a second examination on the classics, and finally, after the successful ones had been graded, there was one - under the direct supervision of the emp
14、eror - on lyrics, descriptive poetry (fu), and again, essays on politics. p. 39The great scholar Ouyang Shiu marked and greatly admired Su Tung-poswork. Then Sus mother died and he undertook the traditional thrice ninemoons period of mourning.Chapter Five, Father and Sons (pp. 44-54), describes the
15、move of thefamily from home, where an appropriate family grave site had been selectedand funeral ceremonies conducted, to the metropolis, eleven hundred milesaway. This journey is very poetically described, including withtranslations of some of Sus poems on the four month spectacular trip.Chapter Si
16、x,Gods, Devils and Men (pp. 57-74), starts with Tung-posdeparture for his post as assistant magistrate of Fengshiang and hispoetic letters to his brother. His official duties included praying to enda drought: On top of the Taipo Mountain, in front of a Taoist temple, there was a little pool where li
17、ved the God of Rain, a dragon who could disguise himself in the form of any small fish. Su Tungpo went up to this and prayed. He pleaded for the farmers, but, like a good lawyer, he tried to make the Dragon God see that a drought or famine was not to the gods own interest. p. 61When this initially f
18、ailed, it was felt the god could be displeased by hisdemotion to count. Su verified that Tang referred to the god as duke,drafted a memorial requesting the emperor restore this rank, sent amessenger to so inform the god and to return with a basin of water fromthe sacred pool. Rain came with the basi
19、n.The men in the chapters title include the old soldier Chang Chun. SuTung-po, after his three year term, returned to the metropolis where hewas assigned to the department of history. His young wife died and a yearlater his father. He observed the traditional thrice nine months mourningfor a parent.
20、 After this he married again and returned to the capital.Chapter Seven, Experiment in State Capitalism (pp. 75-98), introducesthe central political reality of Sus life, the reforms of Wang An-shih.Lin Yutang lists the three great upheavals previously: those of Shang Yangof the Chin Dynasty, of Han W
21、u-ti and of the usurper Wang Mang. All,including the efforts of Wang An-shih, are assessed as failures. Theportrait the author paints of the brilliant reformer resembles thecaricature of the mad scientist, so absorbed in his thoughts he has noawareness of his immediate surroundings. He had steadily
22、declined allpromotions, preferring to remain a local magistrate, but at last heaccepted.Wang An-shih advanced his ideas as based on the traditional intent of thesage rulers Yao and Shun. This enabled him to portray those who opposedhis reforms as just like the evil ministers of those rulers: The mos
23、t important and the best known were nine in number, which I have for the sake of convenience arranged in three groups. There were three state capitalist enterprises, three new taxes, and three systems of registration for a complete regimentation and control of the people. The three state capitalist
24、enterprises were: a government bureau for national trade, a bureau for government stores in retail trade, and the famous loans to the farmers with an official interest of twenty per cent and an actual interest of thirty per cent (i.e., plus application and registration charges). The three new taxes
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