However, due to the particularity of the situation in Song Dynasty, Su Shi's life was not very smooth. His political career was extremely bumpy and he was repeatedly relegated. The reason has a lot to do with his personality.
As we all know, Huangzhou was demoted as an assistant ambassador because of the Wutai Poetry Case. After Song Zhezong acceded to the throne, he successively served as a bachelor of Hanlin, a bachelor of reading, and a minister of rites. After Song Huizong ascended the throne, Su Shi was transferred to Lianzhou for resettlement, Yingyong for resettlement and Yongzhou for resettlement. After the amnesty, he was reinstated as Chao Lang Feng and died in Changzhou at the age of 65 on his way back to the north. After Song Gaozong acceded to the throne, Su Shi was posthumously named as a teacher and posthumous title "Wen Zhong".
Su Shi can be said to be the representative of the highest literary achievements in the Song Dynasty, and he has unique opinions in poetry, calligraphy, painting and even cooking. His poems have a wide range of themes, are fresh and healthy, and have a unique style. He is also called "Su Huang" with Huang Tingjian. As a representative of the uninhibited school, he and Xin Qiji are also called "Su Xin"; His prose works are rich and unrestrained, and he is also called "Ou Su" with Ouyang Xiu, one of the "Eight Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties". There are seven episodes of Dongpo, Yi Zhuan of Dongpo and Yuefu of Dongpo. ?
Su Shi enjoyed a high reputation in the literary world at that time. He inherited Ouyang Xiu's spirit and attached importance to discovering and cultivating literary talents. Su Shi's works were very famous at that time, and they were very popular in Liao and Xixia. In the eyes of later scholars, Su Shi is a brilliant literary master. People are eager to draw nutrition from Su Shi's works. The liberation spirit in Su Shi's ci style was directly inherited by the new poets in the Southern Song Dynasty, forming a bold and unconstrained ci school comparable to graceful ci, and its influence spread to people in the Qing Dynasty. Su Shi also retained an amiable and humorous image in the eyes of ordinary people in later generations. Among the writers of the Song Dynasty, Su Shi was widely loved by later generations and reached an unparalleled level.