Su Shi was a famous writer, poet, painter and calligrapher in Song Dynasty. His achievement is unprecedented. Su Shi has great attainments in literature, and many of his works are masterpieces of the ages. Many well-known poems handed down from history are now selected as compulsory courses in textbooks. It can be seen that Su Shi left a valuable cultural wealth to future generations. His poems are catchy and have become compulsory works for many primary and middle school students.
In addition, Su Shi's calligraphy attainments are also quite profound. His calligraphy features are different, and "short body and short fat" is his calligraphy style. His calligraphy school can be said to be a school of its own, with its own unique artistic style. Huang Tingjian, a famous calligrapher in Song Dynasty, once spoke highly of his calligraphy works. This shows that Su Shi's calligraphy works are also very famous. It must be very accomplished to let the famous calligrapher Huang Tingjian give such a high evaluation.
In addition, Su Shi is also very talented in painting. He is good at painting "literati painting". Because the Song Dynasty advocated literati painting, Su Shi had a lot of research in this field. Su Shi is good at painting bamboo, and pays attention to freehand brushwork in painting. Because literati paintings in the Song Dynasty advocated expressing feelings through paintings, all the bamboos painted by Su Shi had souls. Su Shide's masterpiece is "Xiaoxiang Zhu Shi Atlas", which was also the main representative painting of literati at that time.