Su Shi's Calligraphy Works and Brief Introduction

Su Shi is good at calligraphy and regular script. Together with Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang, he is known as the calligrapher who can best represent the achievements of calligraphy in Song Dynasty, and is called "Song Sijia". Huangzhou cold food poem post is the most wonderful masterpiece of Su Shi's existing works, and is praised as "the third running script in the world" by later generations. Huang Tingjian said in Valley Collection: "Those who are good at books in this dynasty should take (Su) as the first." His calligraphy is characterized by rich pen and ink, flat words, horizontal light and vertical heavy, scattered light and heavy, stretched strokes, great disparity in size, charming and naive.