Zhang Ailing: "Don't think that I am an arrogant person. I've never been there. At least, I am so humble outside the wall of Master Hongyi Temple. "
Zhu Guangqian, a famous aesthete, once said that Li Shutong is "doing the cause of joining the WTO with the spirit of being born".
When I finished reading Biography of Li Shutong, I was also shocked and moved by the legendary life experience of Li Shutong, and I was moved to tears. What is shocking is how he managed to be calm when he was in the spring breeze. I was moved by his spirit of practicing Buddhism for 20 years, forming good relationships, enlightening all beings, spreading Buddhism and dedicating himself to Buddhism. His compassionate Buddhist realm and loving heart infected me. He is so different. The so-called great man probably walked a road that no one else had walked and no one could repeat.
Li Shutong (1880- 1942) was born in Tianjin. His father named him Li Wentao, and he was the third young master of the wealthy businessman Tongda Li family in Tianjin. Young names have become a road. "peaches and plums are self-sufficient." I want to come to his father to give him a gift, and he really did not live up to his father's high hopes. He is famous all over the world and admired by the world. Although his father didn't expect his son to escape into an empty door.
In the world of mortals, his name is Li Shutong; Outside the world of mortals, he is Master Hongyi.
The Biography of Li Shutong written by people scattered in the garden is full of literary style. Its language is like peach petals in spring, one piece at a time, or floating in the wind, or floating out of water, fluttering all over the ground, full of feelings and extremely romantic.
Through the explanation of the author's beautiful brushwork, I have a deep admiration for this eminent monk in the Republic of China. His prominent family background provides material guarantee for all his future achievements. Economy and education have always been in direct proportion. When Li Shutong was a child, his father and brother attached great importance to his education, and private tutors were invited at home, ranging from the Four Books and Five Classics to piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Li Shutong is diligent and studious, which is rare. Since he was a child, he has read widely. /kloc-After 0/5 years old, he has become a charming teenager with excellent eloquence. He no longer agrees with the teachings of his mother and brother. He has his own independent thinking ability and unique understanding of the world. He started a dialogue with the world in his own way.
His mother is the daughter of a scholarly family, and she is a literate person who knows books and rituals. So he comes from a family with a cultural atmosphere. His father, as well as his aunt and ErNian, are all people who eat fast and read Buddha, so I think Uncle Tong was influenced and edified by Buddhist culture since he was a child. This also laid the groundwork for his space following after middle age. There is no unprovoked ending in this world.
He fell in love with drama, and the woman named Yang on the stage became his first love, which was a very important woman in his emotional career. But in that era of strict family values, the disparity in social status failed to reach Qi Fei.
Li Shutong lost his father at the age of 5 and his mother at the age of 20. He tried his best to raise him, and his mother was his god. He didn't dare to go against his mother's wishes. Married the girl his mother has a crush on, the Yu Jia girl. This surplus is also a bad karma. Although she gave birth to two sons to Li Shutong, she never entered his world. From beginning to end, she is a person who lives outside the Li Shutong world and can only watch through the door all her life. He didn't visit Taitai until his death, but he was neither heartless nor fickle. After all, it is impossible to disappoint Tathagata, even the formidable Master Hongyi. All he can do is put a death curse on Yu Nian. Having a husband and wife is not a waste.
Li Shutong is still worried about all kinds of amorous feelings of women on this stage, and the person who enters his heart is irreplaceable by others.
Shortly after the wedding, he returned to the stage and sang a song with his first love, You Nongnong. Life is like a play, and a play is like life. He is acting his own play.
But after all, they can only be passers-by in each other's lives, and he can't give her a lifetime. She resigned herself. No longer delusion is just "poetry and wine in full bloom".
Although Li Shutong has been in trouble, he can understand the political situation in troubled times. After the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, he may have been implicated because he had carved inscriptions, so he went south to Shanghai with his family. Shanghai is a prosperous world, full of poetry and painting, and it is a place where scholars and scholars gather. It was perfect for Li Shutong at that time.
Shanghai has its own bank, so we don't worry about living expenses. A few months later, he joined a literati group called Chengnan Literature Society. He found a bosom friend, made friends with five friends from all over the world, and talked about the vicissitudes of life. Similarly, Li Shutong is happy and romantic, and his world is full of flowers, colorful and full of vitality.
In the field of romance, it is always empty. Even if you love me, nothing lasts forever. He has insight.
1903, after her mother died, Li Shutong went back to Tianjin to attend her mother's funeral. Go abroad to study in Japan.
In Japan, Li Shutong made great achievements in literature and art, from drama to oil painting, which set a precedent for China art circle. He also started a love affair, developed feelings with his mannequin and brought it back to China. Living in Shanghai. The Japanese woman didn't think that her favorite feelings couldn't last a lifetime. Unexpectedly, he left her decisively and there was no room for turning back.
After returning to China, Li Shutong was employed as a music and painting teacher in Zhejiang Normal School (later changed to Zhejiang No.1 Normal School). 19 15, worked as a music and painting teacher at Nanjing Normal University and wrote the first school song in the history of Nanjing University. Outstanding artistic attainments have cultivated some cultural celebrities, such as the famous painter Feng Zikai and musician Liu Zhiping.
Li Shutong not only boldly introduced western art, but also attached great importance to China's traditional painting theory and techniques. He was especially good at combining western painting with China's traditional art. The love between teachers and students, which he collaborated with his disciple Feng Zikai, was praised by the world for its combination of poetry and painting.
In the history of cultural development in China for nearly a hundred years, Li Shutong is recognized as a generalist and a wizard in academic circles. He first introduced western oil painting, piano and drama. He entered China, and is famous for being good at calligraphy, poems, painters, melodies, epigraphy and performing arts.
At this time, Li Shutong is world-famous and very prosperous. Maybe he was born with Buddha's fate. He studied fast therapy in Japan and wanted to experience it for himself, so he began to fast in Dinghui Temple and wrote a fast diary. In this way, he may have always had the desire to practice Buddhism, and this fast has strengthened his determination to become a Buddha.
19 18 On the 15th day of the first month, Dawu Zen Master came to Dinghui Temple. When he met Li Shutong, he felt predestined friends, accepted him as a disciple, converted to Sambo, and named him "Hongyi".
Since then, the world has lost a talent. There is also a Buddhist who devoted himself to Buddhism. From prosperity to peace.
After becoming a monk, Li Shutong vowed to learn the precepts and strictly practice them, and almost became an ascetic. At first, I studied Pure Land Sect, and later I studied Fazong. Legalists are known for their strict discipline, regularity and seriousness, and are called the most difficult cases in Buddhism. Master Hongyi devoted his whole life to popularizing legalism.
After he converted to Buddhism, he washed away the lead and bid farewell to everything in the world and became a thing of the past. Those plain, plain and beautiful lyrics, calligraphy and paintings, and epigraphy have all become the past. Only by persisting in asceticism, not eating in the afternoon, studying Buddhism hard, promoting Buddhism, and freeing all beings from suffering. Become a generation of Buddhist masters admired by the world. He was regarded as the 11th ancestor of Legalism by Buddhist disciples.
13 June 13, Master Hongyi passed away. That night, he carefully wrote down four words: mixed feelings of sadness and joy. Leave the world endless speculation.
Perhaps, people will have an epiphany only after they have experienced it. Without some personal experience, they can't reach the realm of epiphany. Zhen in A Dream of Red Mansions saw a dreamland in his dream. He wanted to go in with the monk, but when he got to the door, he was awakened by a thunder, because he didn't reach the realm of enlightenment. So he can't get through that door. Later, he lost his daughter and burned down his house. After many twists and turns, he realized the world and entered an empty door.
Li Shutong was born full of hope and enjoyed a rich life. Sing a song about wine and perform life on stage and under the moon. It can be said that his experience is rich and colorful. Undoubtedly, these experiences gradually pushed his soul to the door of epiphany. What is commendable is that he treats everything he likes so seriously, attentively and with his best efforts. Will have so many fruitful results. No matter in the secular or Buddhist circles, he left a wealth of spiritual wealth to future generations.
When I closed the book, I felt full of respect. Master Hongyi's life is full of legends. He is a typical figure of China's magnificence and simplicity. Usually people think that only when the world is frustrated or desperate will they escape into an empty door, escape from the complexity of the world and find a pure land to escape from the world. However, Master Hongyi seems to have been born for Buddhism, and his arrival is a blessing to Buddhism. The gap between the first half and the second half is too big. The first half of my life is rich and prosperous, and the second half is poor. No matter what kind of life state, he is so serious and not perfunctory. Is this the power of faith or the cultivation of self-discipline?
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