Did Su Shi eat potatoes in Song Dynasty?

Su Shi didn't eat potatoes in Song Dynasty.

The origin of potato is South America, and the history of artificial cultivation can be traced back to 8000 BC to 5000 BC in southern Peru. About 7000 years ago, an Indian tribe migrated from the east to the Andes in the Alps and set up camp. They were the first people to find and eat wild potatoes.

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Su Shi (1037—11year), with the word Zizhan and the word Hezhong, was named Tieguan Taoist and Dongpo Buddhist, and was called Su Dongpo, Su Xian and Poxian in the world. Meishan, Meizhou (now Meishan City, Sichuan Province), Luancheng, Hebei Province, was a writer, calligrapher and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, and a historical water control celebrity. The father is Su Xun, the younger brother is Su Zhe, and the father and son are called "Sansu".

Su Shi was a literary leader in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, and made great achievements in poetry, ci, writing, calligraphy and painting. His poems are broad in subject matter, fresh and healthy, good at exaggeration and metaphor, and unique in style. He is also called "Su Huang" with Huang Tingjian. His words are bold and unconstrained, and they are both bold and unconstrained representatives with Xin Qiji, and they are also called "Su Xin".

His writings are rich and unrestrained, and he is called "Ou Su" with Ouyang Xiu, and "Eight Great Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties" with Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Ouyang Xiu, Su Xun, Su Zhe, Wang Anshi and Ceng Gong.

Su Shi's life was ups and downs, and he traveled everywhere, and his life experience was extremely rich. He is good at summing up experience from life experience and seeing laws from objective things. In his eyes, ordinary life content and natural scenery contain profound truth, such as Xilin Wall Topic and Mianchi Nostalgia.

In these poems, natural phenomena rise to philosophy, and the perception of life is also transformed into rational thinking. What is particularly commendable is that the philosophy in poetry is naturally expressed through vivid and distinctive artistic images, rather than through logical deduction or discussion and analysis. This kind of poem is both beautiful and interesting, worthy of the name.

Su Shi is very insightful, so he can find wonderful ideas everywhere. Deep life thinking makes Su Shi hold a calm and broad-minded attitude towards ups and downs, which is fully reflected in Su Shi's poems.