苏轼“死不扶柩”与“葬我嵩山”辩说——苏轼为何不“归葬”家乡眉山

The Cause for Su Shi’s Failure to Be Buried in His Hometown Meishan

苏轼贬儋州,曾说“死不扶柩”即就地安葬为“东坡家风”,但他死前又嘱苏辙“葬我嵩山”,终葬嵩山。他病逝常州,没归葬家乡眉山与父母相伴,而扶柩嵩山。苏辙说“势不克从”,关键是苏轼功名未成、因“乌台诗案”所获原罪未脱,归葬恐污辱先人。

When Su Shi was exiled to Danzhou,he once said that it was a customary practice of the Su family for one to be buried in the very place where one passes away,but before his death,Su Shi instructed his younger brother Su Zhe to bury him on Mount Song and he was thus buried there in the end.When he died of illness in Changzhou,Su Shi was buried on Mount Song rather than in his hometown Meishan together with his parents.Su Zhe illustrated it as“the inability to follow”,which means that the then circumstances did not allow them to bury Su Shi in his home.The crux lies in the fact that Su Shi considered himself unaccomplished in fame and still guilty due to the“Wutai Poetry Incident”,so he was afraid of insulting ancestors if buried in his hometown.