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中国诗人苏轼 Su Shi有关搜索: 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 contribution 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 Shi’s contribution was the greatest. He not only created wonderful works, but also did many good things for common people when he was an officer. Today, there is still a Su Bank in Hangzhou Province.Because of Su’s talent, Su was envied and was relegated to Huangzhou, a poor place. Even when Su was there, he didn’t lose his spirit for the life. What’s more, his poems created at that time was even better. Su’s 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 Times 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 personality. 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 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. Seventyyears 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 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 reckoning 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), explores 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 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, met 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 emperor -- 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 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 Six,  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, th。