Lin Yutang's great love and reverence for Su Dongpo can be seen everywhere in the book. He praised "Su Dongpo is an optimist whose nature cannot be changed, a compassionate moralist, a good friend of civilians, an essayist, a new painter, a great calligrapher, an experimenter in brewing, an engineer, a hypocritical opponent, a yoga practitioner, a Buddhist, a scholar-bureaucrat, an emperor's secretary, a drinker and a. He is versatile, curious and thoughtful, deep and inevitably frivolous, unconventional in handling things, and naturally elegant in writing. ""From Buddhism's denial of life to Confucianism's face-up to life, and then to Taoism's simplification of life, this poet has produced his mixed outlook on life in his mind. " "He was the first to put Buddhism into poetry and created literati painting in painting, which is recognized as an authority in the medical field. . . "
Such a talented person, such a ups and downs of life, people can not help but yearn for. They want to follow Mr. Lin Yutang's words and travel to the Song Dynasty to see how the thoughts of the two masters collided with beautiful sparks in the long history of the stars.