Character evaluation:
General evaluation
Su Shi has achieved extremely high attainments in literature, poetry and Ci, and can be called the representative of the highest achievement of literature in the Song Dynasty. . Moreover, Su Shi's creative activities were not limited to literature. He made outstanding achievements in calligraphy, painting and other fields, and also contributed to medicine, cooking, water conservancy and other skills. Su Shi typically embodies the cultural spirit of the Song Dynasty. From the perspective of literary history, Su Shi's significance has two main points: First, Su Shi's attitude towards life has become a paradigm admired by later generations of literati: he can advance and retreat freely, and he is unfazed by favors and disgrace. Because Su Shi integrated the two attitudes of scholars in feudal society with the same value scale, he was able to remain calm and unstoppable. Of course, this paradigm is more applicable when scholars encounter ups and downs. It can lead to a state of life that adheres to integrity and is full of fertility. This is exactly what scholars of all dynasties after the Song Dynasty hoped to achieve. Secondly, Su Shi's aesthetic attitude provided an enlightening aesthetic paradigm for future generations. He embraced the world with a broad aesthetic vision, so everything is appreciable and beauty can be found everywhere. This paradigm opened up a new world for future generations in terms of subject matter, content and expression techniques. Therefore, it is a historical necessity that Su Shi is universally loved by future generations of literati.
Evaluations of the past dynasties
Zhao Zhen: I now have two more prime ministers for my descendants, Taiping.
Liu Anshi: Dongpo's great achievements in establishing the dynasty are very impressive, his talents are broad, and he only believes in himself.
Huang Tingjian: ① People say that Dongpo wrote this article because it was difficult to see cleverness, so he was extremely skilled. I thought otherwise. He was good at writing, so everything he wrote was transcendent. ②The article is wonderful and the world is full of loyalty and righteousness. ③A true fairy among the gods.
Su Zhe: When you see good people, you praise them as if you are afraid of not doing enough; when you see bad people, you reprimand them as if you are afraid of not doing enough; when you see good things, you are brave enough to do it, regardless of the harm. I am trapped in the world with this number, but I don't feel hate in the end.
Lu You: ① Shiyan Dongpo could not sing, so most of his Yuefu compositions were inconsistent with the rhythm. Chao Yidao said: "At the beginning of Shaosheng Dynasty, Dongpo was different from Bianshang. Dongpo was drunk and started singing Yangguan songs. Then Gongfei couldn't sing, but he was bold and unrestrained and didn't like to cut it to suit the rhythm. Try to take Dongpo Po's poems and songs end, and he feels that the wind, sea and rain are threatening him. ② The misfortunes and blessings in his body have made him worry about the country.
Zeng Guofan: the ancients called him. Establishing virtue, establishing merit, and establishing reputation are the three immortals. Establishing virtue is the most difficult. Since the Zhou and Han Dynasties, there are few people who have achieved virtue such as Xiao, Cao, Fang, Du, Guo, Li, Han, and Yue, and established reputation such as Ma, Ban, and Han. , Ou, Li, Du, Su, Huang, how many people have there been in ancient and modern times?
Wang Guowei: Comparing Song poetry to Tang poetry, Dongpo looks like Taibai, Europe and Qin look like Mojie, and Qi Qing looks like Lotte. Fang Hui, Shu Yuan and others were among the ten disciples of Dali.
Lin Yutang: Su Dongpo was a hopeless optimist, a great humanitarian, a friend of the people, a great writer, and a great calligrapher. A writer, an innovative painter, a brewing experimenter, an engineer, a hater of Puritanism, a yogi Buddhist, a great Confucian statesman, an emperor's secretary, a master of wine, a kind judge, a political expert A naysayer. A moonlit night wanderer, a poet, and a clown. But this is not enough to describe all of Su Dongpo... Su Dongpo has the richness, variety, and humor of a multifaceted genius, and his intelligence is outstanding. , but the mind is like an innocent child - this mixture is equal to what Jesus called the wisdom of the snake plus the gentleness of the dove.
Qian Mu: ① The greatness of Su Dongpo's poetry is because he has never been politically proud in his life. The ups and downs and twists and turns are all seen in the poem. However, Su Dongpo's Confucianism level was not high, but his personality was great in the difficult environment, like when he was in Huangzhou and later in Huizhou and Qiongzhou. Poems were good at that time, but once they became comfortable, they were a bit unsatisfactory, and the poetry was sometimes unconventional. The strengths of Dongpo's poems were that they were not as tranquil as Wang Mojie, and not as loyal as Du Gongbu. . ② Their (Su brothers') scholarship is heavily colored by the belief in laoism, so they do not think there is a positive and transcendent ideal standard when it comes to worldly affairs. They are quite skilled and can deal with them randomly with their cleverness.
They also do not believe that any one system is necessarily better than another. But on the other hand, they also like articles and rhetoric, so they hold opinions, often exaggerating, and speaking as much as possible. Close to the ancient strategists.