When everything comes naturally (Pinyin: shuǐ dào qú chéng), it is an idiom that first came from Su Shi's "Reply to Qin Taixu" in the Song Dynasty.
When water comes in, a ditch will form naturally; it means that when conditions are ripe, things will succeed naturally. It has a complimentary meaning; it is generally used as a predicate and attributive in a sentence. Idiom Story
During the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a man named Su Shi, whose courtesy name was Zizhan and whose name was Dongpo Jushi. His father Su Xun and younger brother Su Zhe were both writers at the time, and were known as the "Three Sus" in the world. Su Shi received a good family education when he was young, and he studied hard. In his youth, he had extensive historical and cultural knowledge and showed various artistic talents. When he was admitted to the Jinshi Examination in 1057 AD, Ouyang Xiu saw that his article repeatedly said: "Hurry! Hurry!" In this year, 21-year-old Su Shi became a Jinshi in high school. ?
"Since ancient times, great talents have suffered many hardships", and Su Shi is no exception. When Wang Anshi presided over the reform, Su Shi stood on the opposite side. He made several suggestions to Emperor Shenzong and tried his best to state the various shortcomings of the new law. Su Shi's remarks naturally aroused Wang Anshi's dissatisfaction. Wang Anshi used his cronies to collect accusations and wrote a letter to impeach Su Shi
Su Shi felt that it was difficult to get on in the capital, so he asked to be an official in other places. In April 1079 AD, Su Shi arrived in Huzhou. Shortly after taking office, a disaster struck from the sky. In July of the same year, Yushitai (formerly known as Wutai) sent people to arrest Su Shi and escort him to Bianjing (now Kaifeng, Henan) on the charge of writing poems to slander the imperial court. Su Shi was detained in prison for more than a hundred days, interrogated more than ten times, and tortured. After being rescued by many parties, he was released in December of that year and demoted to the deputy envoy of regiment training in Huangzhou (now Huanggang, Hubei Province).
For a period of time when Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou, he not only felt very lonely mentally, but also poor and stretched in life. At that time, the salary given to him by the court had been used up, and the Su family had a large population, so he had to find ways to save money. He stipulated that daily expenses should not exceed 150 yuan. On the first day of each month, he would take out 4,500 yuan, divide it into thirty parts, put it in a small bag, and hang it on the roof beam. Every morning, he used a long fork that he usually used to pick up and hang paintings to pick out a bag from the beam, and then put the long fork away. Any money that cannot be used on the day is stored in a large bamboo tube for entertaining guests. When you have a lot of money saved in the big bag, you will make other arrangements. In this way, Su Shi and his family spent the most miserable four years in their lives. When Su Shi wrote to his friend Qin Guan, he once said: "Live your life in peacetime, save little by little, and make arrangements when you have accumulated a lot. It will naturally fall into place, and there is no need to make advance plans." At this time of depression, Su Shi Still being able to be calm and composed is really extraordinary. This is exactly what it is: Only great heroes can show their true colors, and they are the true heroes.