This is a couplet by Su Xiaomei, Su Shi's sister in the Northern Song Dynasty.
According to legend, Su Dongpo once discussed poetry with his sister and poetry friend Huang and learned from each other. After my sister said "breeze and willow" and "plum blossom and light moon", I asked my brother to add a word to them and say something poetic.
Su Dongpo immediately said: "Shake" in the front and reflect "in the back", that is, "the breeze shakes the willow and the bright moon reflects the plum blossom." Unexpectedly, Su Xiaomei called it "inferior". Su Dongpo thought about it carefully and said proudly, "Yes,' the breeze and the willows dance together, and the plum blossoms are hidden in the moonlight'. " "
Su Xiaomei said with a smile: "Yes, but still not up to grade." Huang Gu couldn't help asking, "What do you think?" Su Xiaomei read: "The breeze helps the willows, and the plum blossoms are defeated in the bright moon." Su Dongpo and Huang Gugu were chanting and pondering, and they couldn't help but say that it was wonderful.
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Su Xiaomei 1
It is said that Su Xiaomei is Su Shi's younger sister, and unofficial history recorded her name as zhěn, a famous talented woman at that time. There is even a folk story about "Three Difficulties in Su Xiaomei's Qin Pass".
Su Shi loved books and relatives all his life, and most of his letters were written by later generations. Most of the existing calligraphy of Su Shi was sent to his brother Su Zhe. There is no mention of this "sister" in the letter, and there is no mention of this "sister" in Dongpo's poems handed down from ancient times.
However, according to the records of Susan Temple, this person did exist in history, but because Su Xiaomei died when Su Shi and Su Zhe were very young, he naturally failed to leave relevant books.
2. Su Shi
Su Shi (1037 65438+10.8-18.24), with the word Zizhan, alias Tieguanyin, Dongpo Jushi, Su Dongpo and Su Xian, Han nationality, Meishan, Meizhou (Meishan, Sichuan Province).
In the second year of Jiayou (1057), Su Shi was a scholar. Song Shenzong worked in Fengxiang, Hangzhou, Mizhou, Xuzhou and Huzhou. In the third year of Yuanfeng (1080), he was demoted to be the permanent assistant ambassador of Huangzhou because of Wutai poetry case.
After Song Zhezong acceded to the throne, he served as a bachelor of Hanlin, a bachelor of reading and a minister of rites, and was well known in Hangzhou, Yingzhou, Yangzhou and Dingzhou. In his later years, he was exiled to Huizhou and Danzhou because of the ruling of the New Party. Song Huizong was granted amnesty and returned to the north, where he died. Song Gaozong posthumously awarded a surname, posthumous title "article".
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