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Chen Duxiu said of Su Manshu: "As for human relationships and sophistication, Manshu is actually very thorough, but he refuses to look down at any time, and only pretends to be insane to avoid disaster. Zhang Taiyan wrote that he was puzzled. In terms of personnel affairs, he is almost described as a fool. In fact, when he lived in Japan, he fully understood the reason for the conflict between Tai Yan and Uncle Liu Shen. Fortunately, they all regarded him as a fool, and they didn't avoid him for anything, and he didn't say anything. He didn’t make any noise, but came secretly to tell me.” In his later years, Chen said in prison: “Su Manshu is a romantic monk, extremely intelligent, and his poems, essays, books, and paintings are all excellent. , Youqing said that he also fell in love, and Wuqing said that he was a monk."

Sun Yat-sen compared Su Manshu with the famous monk Taixu at that time, saying: "It's too hypocritical, and Manshu is outspoken. Of course, Manshu is superior in internal classics; that is, the method of birth and entry into the world, Taixu is also inferior to Manshu." Zhou Zuoren made a multi-faceted evaluation of Su Manshu: Commenting on Manshu, he said: "Manshu is a very talented person. You can know from his quatrains and essays, and he is born with a romantic temperament, which is quite representative of the literary and artistic atmosphere before and after the revolution."

Criticism of his thinking goes: "But his thinking, I want to say something disrespectful, is really not very clever. In short, he can't escape the barriers of old morality-this is inevitable for poets? ... Manshu's thinking is ordinary, or a bit Like the old scholars..." Commenting on his poems and essays: "His poems and essays are indeed well written, or it can be said that they are better than ordinary celebrities and elders. They also have some genuine spirit and style, showing his personality. This is his advantage." Commenting on his status in the history of literature, he said: "Mr. said that Manshu is a member of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School. Although it is a little harsh, it is actually true." The Kong Zhongni in the movie is tired of his apprentices, and his true colors are easily buried."

Mao Dun commented on Su Manshu's works: "I seem to see the author's too red-hot heart jumping in the cold air. It has a lot to curse, a lot to resonate with, and a lot to resist. It turns around anxiously, and finally finds There is no ideal of peace of mind, a little light." Su Manshu's friend Yao Yuchu commented: "Your heart and interest are like celebrities in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. They are elegant and elegant, but they are subtle and unrevealed. Visitors in the world are like wild cranes in the clouds. You can't be constrained by them. It's like this. Zhang Rong's so-called "I don't hate that I don't see the ancients, and I hate the ancients for not being able to see my ears." He also said: "You can't have one, and you can't have two." There are many, and it is not someone who deliberately thinks of it in business. He is extremely talented and knows everything in learning, but he is deeply restrained and restrained, so he should not show off the world. Those who are good at talking about "Yi" don't talk about "Yi", they are just one of their peers."

Mengzhou compared Su Manshu with Li Bai and said: "Taibai is proud of the world, and he despises high-ranking officials and generous salary as his pride; Manshu is neither arrogant nor flattering, and he is leisurely. In addition to smoking Luzon cigarettes, eating ice, writing There is nothing other than illness and illness, and I have long looked down upon high-ranking officials and generous salary. If you look through Manshu's posthumous letters, no matter how you search for methods, you will not be able to find anything like "Li Bai and Han Jingzhou Book". In poetry On the one hand, Li Bai's poems are unconstrained, majestic and beautiful. However, Manshu's poems are not full of elegant and sad artistic conception...Manshu died in his prime, and people often say that he occupied the palace of genius. He worked very hard, so he was able to understand the languages ​​of several countries, and at the same time, he was able to appreciate so many ancient literary and artistic works. If measured by the academic ability of ordinary people, Manshu will never be able to learn so many things in terms of time. .In fact, what Manshu has is only genius, and besides genius, is interest."

Yu Dafu said: "Su Manshu is a talented man, a strange person, but by no means a great talent. There is genius, there is spirituality, and the romantic temperament is very rich, but it lacks originality and majesty,... Manshu's talent shines in his translated poems, poems, novels, paintings, and all essays and essays, but you can't find anything in his collections if you ask for a comprehensive one. ... Generally speaking, his translated poems are better than his own poems, his poems are better than his paintings, his paintings are better than his novels, and his romantic temperament is derived from this romantic temperament. The demeanor of the coming, better than everything he has."

Yu Dafu also said: "Su Manshu's name has long been immortal in the history of Chinese literature." Someone commented: "The writer Xu Dishan (Luo Huasheng) is a 'real person' who entered the world, while the monk Su Manshu is a 'lover' who was born into the world." Wengong sighed straight away, Manju "is like a chrysanthemum that admires itself, like a lotus that emerges from mud, like a plum blossom that is proud of the snow and rushes into the cold, like an orchid with a delicate fragrance... Manshu's temperament is too pure and too clear, so I don't care about it." What the turbid era accommodates."

Liu Taixi concluded: "Master Manshu's life was abnormal, his behavior was abnormal, his encounters were abnormal, his writing was abnormal, his poetry was abnormal, and his painting was abnormal. People's paintings do not need to learn from the masters of the two sects of the north and the south, but they are self-contained. What they do is suspected to contain the unspeakable threat of life experience. Zhenzai, one hill and one ravine, is extremely subtle, or fishing boats are deserted, spiritual flags are ruined temples, or golden wheels are flying tin, thousands of blades are shaking clothes, or spreading willows, shaking mountains and rivers, or small bridges with red leaves. Playing the flute, there is no one who is out of the ordinary, the aura reaches the sky, expresses the sage and speaks, the temperament is perfect, the wonderfulness is not found, the encounter is from the sky, the sound is cold and the sound, the master's painting scene, should be described in this, it is impossible One family and one faction can measure its value.”

A friend Gao Xie once wrote a poem to Su Manshu saying: "Stay in the heart and always feel the suffering of all beings, and feel that there are too many tears with cold eyes." Gu Bin said: "Su Manshu is the last master of classical Chinese, and also the first writer who did not take an evasive attitude towards morbidity, and made an unvarnished description of morbidity in his works." In Chen Pingyuan's view, Su Manshu forced himself to believe in Buddhism out of the need to get rid of suffering and refinement, but he was always restless in his subconscious. Confession".

Master Mingshan said that he "experienced enlightenment in the Zen hall, while Manshu obtained the Tao in the brothel". Master Yinshun said: "There are two great poet monks in China. There was Buddha Seal in the past, and Manjushri today." Dai Jitao recalled: "I still remember Su Xuanying among my dead friends. This person is someone I don't want to learn, and at the same time I can't learn from him. His temperament is also very good, but in the end he It is the crystallization of individualism. From the perspective of super-life, he is also an excellent human being, but from the perspective of life, he is a person who has passed through many generations. Such a person is lofty but not lofty, pure but not pure, It can be a good friend for the individual, but it must be said to be a wart with the society."