Cover News Reporter Yan Wenwen

清明時節話東坡，他的歸葬處郟縣小峨眉是一個繞不開的話題。在4月3日，《東坡大家講》清明特別節目中，郟縣籍中國傳媒大學副教授、守護蘇東坡雲村聯盟贊助者劉楠，眉山東坡區永光村村民、守護蘇氏墓地42年四川省十佳文物志願者陶宗勤一起探討了為何蘇轼、蘇轍兩兄弟最終魂歸郟縣。

According to Professor Liu Nan, in the local academic circles, there are mainly economic, political, family and other factors for Ersu to finally sleep in Jiaxian instead of returning to his hometown in Meishan.

In terms of economy, Mr. Dongpo was financially poor in his later years, and if he wanted to be buried in Meishan, he needed to cross the Qinling Shu Road, which cost a lot of money. Su Shi himself once proposed that there was no need to spend money to buy land, and it was enough to use the Su family cemetery that had been prepared for the Balang Woman (Su Zhe's daughter-in-law Huang Clan, known as the Balang Woman in the clan).

"There is a more representative saying that Mr. Dongpo wrote to his younger brother before he died, saying, 'That is, die, bury me at the foot of Songshan Mountain, and my son will be remembered for me'. At that time, Su Zhe had already bought a cemetery for the Huang family, so Mr. Dongpo mentioned in his letter to his younger brother that since he had already spent money to buy this cemetery, why bother spending money? Some experts believe that this is what Mr. Dongpo did in order to save money in the embarrassing environment at that time. ”

Su Shi and Su Zhe's choice of Xiaoemei in Jiaxian County also has the meaning of homesickness. Some people say that Mr. Su Dongpo once observed that the mountain shape of Xiao Emei is similar to Mount Emei in Sichuan, and being buried here is like returning home. When the famous calligrapher Qi Gong wrote the couplet for the tomb of the Three Sus, he wrote that "three fathers and sons in a generation of articles, and two Emei beans in a thousand autumns".

From a political point of view, there is a theory that the officials of the Northern Song Dynasty, especially those who had served as high-ranking officials, chose to rest within a few hundred miles of Kaifeng. The distance from Jiaxian to Kaifeng is within this prescribed range, and the tombs of some other celebrities such as Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu are all within 200 kilometers from Su Dongpo's cemetery, that is, within 0 miles. However, this theory is not particularly strongly supported, and the burial grounds of some high-ranking officials of the Northern Song Dynasty are far away from Kaifeng.

In fact, an important reason for Su Shi and Su Zhe's burial in Jiaxian may be the agreement between the two in their youth, that is, their plot of the night rain against the bed. In the winter when Su Shi was 24 years old, he left Kaifeng and went to Fengxiang to take office. This is the first time in the lives of the two brothers that they have separated, and Su Shi wrote a poem for his younger brother, which has a sentence "When to listen to Xiao Se on a rainy night". Since then, they have agreed that they will also "listen to the rain in bed" in the future. Later, the two brothers met again in the officialdom twice, reminding each other that there was this "night rain on the bed" appointment in the poem. There is "Man Jianghong, Jizi You": "Live up to Lin Xia's intentions back then, and listen to the rain at night." There is "Early Autumn Sending Sons": "The stormy night in the snow hall has made the sound of the bed".

But this promise of "night rain to bed" has never been realized. Until Su Dongpo was buried in Jiaxian, because Su Zhe was also living in seclusion nearby, ten years later, Su Zhe died and was buried in Jiaxian, and finally realized the eternal brotherhood, and completed the agreement between the two when they were young.

"It has been said that we cannot choose where we are born, but we can choose where we are to rest. Xiao Emei's Sansu Tomb runs through the plot of Su Shi and Su Zhe's night rain against the bed, and also witnesses their eternal brotherhood. Liu Nan said, "Their poems kept repeating the promise of bed night rain, and they did not realize this wish until they died, and being buried here after death can be regarded as making up for the regrets of their lives." ”