E43 少年能作黠鼠赋，文星璀璨缀升平

E43 少年能作黠鼠赋，文星璀璨缀升平

课程导读

上节课我们讲到，一块好砚台对书法艺术十分重要，上品砚台往往被文人视为至宝。而在苏东坡成长的童年时代，北宋内治太平，外无战事，贤良之臣受到恩宠，文才之士点缀升平。这样的环境，对苏东坡的成长会起到什么作用？像欧阳修、范仲淹这样的文豪大家，又是如何影响这位未来的大诗人的？

英文原文

If we believe the records, he is supposed to have penned some extraordinary lines at the age of ten.

Two of these lines are found in his amusing tale of "The Cunning Mouse."

It is a short piece describing how a little mouse, when found trapped in a bag, had pretended death, and then worsted his captors when thrown upon the ground.

Also at about this time his teacher was reading a copy of a long poem describing the galaxy of illustrious scholars then living at the court.

The young pupil looked over the teacher's shoulder and began to ask questions about these scholars.

They were names great in China's history, for in Su Tungpo's childhood China was ruled by perhaps the best emperor of the dynasty, who was a patron of literature and the arts.

There was peace in the country and peace with the barbarian hordes on the north and northwest, the Kins, the Liaos, and the Shishia Kingdom, which had been a constant source of trouble.

Under such a regime, good men held office and a number of literary talents had arisen to grace the court with their presence.

It was then that the child first heard of the great names of Ouyang Shiu, Fan Chungyen, and others, and he was deeply inspired.

Happily, these are about all the revelations we have of the poet's childhood.

Though Su recorded many of his adult dreams and unfinished poems written during his dreams, there are no unwitting remarks for the modern biographer to build, with a mixture of interpretation, intuition, and fantasy, into a fabric of the poet's subconscious neuroses.

Su Tungpo mentioned no diapers or constipation.