Su Shi was a famous calligrapher, painter, poet, writer and essayist in the Northern Song Dynasty. Su Shi, formerly known as Zi Zhan, also known as He Zhong, is a Taoist in tin cans and a Buddhist in Dongpo. Su Dongpo is Su Xian. Su Dongpo is from Meishan, Meizhou, Sichuan, and Luancheng, Hebei. Su Shi was a literary leader in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty. He has made great achievements in poetry, language, prose, books and painting.
Su Shi was born in a poor landlord family. He was educated by his father Su Xun, and his mother Shicheng also taught books. His prose is powerful and unconstrained, his poems are profound and energetic, he is good at using exaggerated metaphors and has a unique style. He is on par with Huang Tingjian and "Su Huang". His word is "open and unrestrained", and together with Xin Qiji, it is a representative of unrestrained, also known as "Su Xin". Prose works are as bold and unrestrained as Ouyang Xiu and are known as "Ou Su". Su Shi is also good at calligraphy and is one of the "eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties".
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Su Shi's views on society and thoughts on life are undisguised in his literary works, among which poetry is the most hearty. In more than 2,700 Su poems, the theme of intervening in social reality and thinking about life is very prominent. Su Shi's attitude towards various unreasonable phenomena in social reality is "out of date", and he always regards criticizing reality as an important theme of his poems.
What is more valuable is that Su Shi's criticism of society is not limited to the New Deal or the present. He criticized the long-standing abuses and bad habits in feudal society, and embodied a deeper critical consciousness. Su Shi's life was ups and downs, and he traveled everywhere, and his life experience was extremely rich. He is good at summing up experience from life experience and seeing laws from objective things.