Su Dongpo is more versatile than other poets in China, full of sense of change and sense of humor. His intelligence is excellent, but his mind is like a naive child. This mixture is equal to the wisdom of snakes and the gentleness of pigeons.
Lin Yutang's Biography of Su Dongpo
This is an all-round cultural giant, a true hero who lives brilliantly-Su Shi, Zi Zhan and Dongpo lay man. In the space and time of nearly a thousand years, he infected and touched countless people around him and behind him. Su Shi, 1037, a native of Meishan, Sichuan. At this time, no one would have thought that Piper's new life would swing around in the future. Just like a wonderful movie, it shocked and impacted every audience who approached him from beginning to end. Su Shi once created the "highest score" in the history of imperial examinations in the Northern Song Dynasty and was honored as a "national idol". He is a comprehensive literary leader and a politician determined to reform. He once climbed to the top and pointed out the country. After several ups and downs, life and death are uncertain; He was demoted to Huangzhou at forty-five, Huizhou at fifty-nine and Danzhou at sixty-two. His experience seems a little more bumpy and tortured. But perhaps it is this bitter experience that has created his unique and distinctive charm. Therefore, when we look back on his 66-year life, we will find that the vigor of youth, the frustration of middle age and the indifference of old age are so perfectly combined with Su Shi. Thousands of years later, it still echoes. Su Shi is not a lofty god. He not only writes poems and lyrics, but also sweats and tills the fields. He "can accompany the Jade Emperor from above and the Beggars' Sect from below". He is a real heartbreaker, and Su Shi has won the heartfelt love of most people.
Su Shi was one of the greatest writers in ancient China. He was well versed in poetry, especially his ci, and became the highest level representative of Song Ci. Compared with his great achievements in lyric poetry, Su Shi's poems are also of high standard. "There are three peaches outside the bamboo, and the duck prophet warms the water by the river. If you want to compare with the West Lake, it is always appropriate to make light makeup and heavy makeup" and so on. Popularization and popularization. Among Su Shi's poems, the most widely known is "I don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, but I only live in this mountain". With the spread of this poem, "the true face of Lushan Mountain" has become a common saying.
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In the history of ancient literature in China, Su Shi's poems are more famous. However, due to his great achievements in prose, Su Shi ranks among the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties". Among Su Shi's many essays, the one he wrote in Huangzhou, located in Huangzhou, Hubei Province, is a very important place for Su Shi, but it is in its prime. In the face of the surging Yangtze River, Su Shi sighed that "the waves in the great river east are gone and washed away", and even called it a swan song with a pair of poems before and after the red wall.
Su Shi is not only a unique master of literature, but also an omnipotent master of painting and calligraphy. In calligraphy, Su Shi, along with his contemporaries Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang, is also called "Song Sijia", and is regarded by later generations as the calligrapher who can best represent the achievements of calligraphy in the Song Dynasty. Su Shi ranks first, leaving behind the third running script in the world. In painting, Su Shi took the lead in putting forward the concepts of China literati painting and painting. In the field of painting and calligraphy, Su Shi, who has achieved such brilliant achievements and played such an important role, is not a professional painter. Most of his creations are spontaneous and random. Compared with those literati who specialize in painting and calligraphy, Su Shi's creation is more and more unique and precious.
As a scholar, Su Shi's representative poems, Nostalgia on Red Cliff, When Will the Bright Moon Be, are well-known. As a gourmet, Su Shi's food represents dishes, such as Dongpo meat, which is well known to women and children. Scholars love to eat, which seems to be a cultural tradition, elegant and comfortable, rich and comfortable. However, Su Dongpo's title as a gourmet mainly comes from his relegation and exile, and most of his gourmet dishes were created in exile. He is so poor that he often doesn't even have enough to eat.