As we all know, Su Xun, Su Shi, and Su Zhe, father and son, are all called the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties. Among the eight members of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Su family owns only three, and they are also called the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties by later generations. "Three Su". I believe everyone has read a lot of their poems, but does everyone know the origin of their names?
Father Su Xun
Su Xun (May 22, 1009 - May 21, 1066), courtesy name Mingyun, self-named Laoquan, Han nationality, Meishan, Meizhou (today's Belongs to Meishan, Sichuan) people. When Su Xun studied hard, his hard work was unimaginable. Legend has it that one year during the Dragon Boat Festival, Mrs. Cheng saw that he had been staying in the study and had even forgotten breakfast, so she specially peeled a few rice dumplings and sent them to the study with a plate of sugar, and walked away quietly without disturbing him! At nearly noon, when I was clearing away the dishes, I found that the rice dumplings had been eaten and the sugar dish was still intact. However, there were a lot of glutinous rice grains left around the inkstone. Su Xun's mouth was also stained with black and white, and the black ones were ink. , the white ones are glutinous rice grains. It turns out that Su Xun was only concentrating on studying and used the inkstone as a sugar dish. What he dipped into the rice dumplings was ink, not sugar. He took even more painstaking efforts in educating his sons, and even more painstaking efforts in naming his two sons: Shi and Zhe respectively.
Son Su Shi
Su Shi, whose given name is Shi and whose courtesy name is Zizhan; Su Zhe, whose given name is Zhe and whose courtesy name is Ziyou, are related to "car". In his article "Ming Erzi", Su Xun explained the reason why brothers Su Shi and Su Che were named: wheels, spokes, covers, and wheels are all important parts of a car and are indispensable. The Shi (the crossbar in front of the car, used as an armrest when standing on the car to see from a distance) seems to be dispensable, but without the Shi, the car would not be complete. Su Xun named Su Shi "Shi" in the hope that he would not ignore the seemingly unimportant "external decorations". All cars will leave ruts, but it has no share in the credit book. But if the carriage breaks down and the horse dies, the misfortune will not affect the rut. The rut is between good and bad, and although there is no good, it is not bad. The name "Che" was given to Su Che in the hope that he would be safe and avoid disaster.
Son Su Zhe
The father named his two children Su Shi and Su Zhe, hoping that they would be low-key, talented and not exposed. Su Shi was upright throughout his life, and his official career was difficult and dangerous, which made his family suffer setbacks. The Wutai Poetry Case almost caused Su Shi to die. Su Shi's talent is recognized, and he has made great achievements in politics, water conservancy, literature, calligraphy, and Confucianism. Su Che, his father Su Xun, and brother Su Shi founded the Su family of Shu studies. He and Su Shi were both masters of the Su family of Shu studies. Su's Shu school was opposed to Jing Gong's new school and Ercheng Luo school. "Sansu" has extensive knowledge of the classics and history, and has adopted the teachings of the Six Classics and hundreds of schools of thought. He also absorbed the Taoist doctrines of Lao Zhuang and Zhuangzi and Buddhist thoughts, and gradually formed the ideological system of "three religions in one". It was the product of the trend of the times when Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism were integrated in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty. It was an academic sect with important influence at that time.
The lives of the Su family, father and son, were concerned about the country and the people. There is a saying that "if you sit high in a temple, you will worry about your people; if you are far away from the rivers and lakes, you will worry about your king. You will also worry when you advance, and you will worry when you retreat." When Su Shi experienced the Wutai Poetry Case, he thought he was about to die. What I most want to see is my younger brother Su Che. This legendary story of brothers has also been passed down by future generations.