How to treat Su Shi's broad-mindedness

Lin Yutang wrote in the preface to Su Dongpo's Biography: "I can say that Su Dongpo is a hopeless optimist, a great humanist, a friend of the people, a great writer, a great calligrapher, an innovative painter, an experimenter in brewing, an engineer, a puritan hater, a practitioner, a Buddhist, a politician and a Buddhist. But this is not enough to tell the whole story of Su Dongpo. When Su Dongpo is mentioned, people in China always smile with kindness and enthusiasm. This conclusion may best express his characteristics. "

Su Shi is a philosopher and a wise man in life. He is an outstanding genius who combines poetry, prose, fu and painting. He was the most comprehensive cultural master in ancient China. It is the expectation of a nation with many years of cultural precipitation. However, these talents have brought him glory and disaster. Throughout his life, although he was an official in his official career, he was convicted of poetry several times. "Wutai Poetry Case" even almost killed him. Su Shi showed great adaptability in the face of ups and downs and dreamlike life. In his poems, the sense of responsibility, mission and the idea of seclusion in the mountains and forests are intertwined, which vividly reflects his happy-go-lucky, wild and open-minded attitude towards life. For three years, Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou Yongjifu because of Wutai poetry case. When a generation of writers were demoted to Huangzhou, their difficult situation and negative and painful ambivalence were eagerly transformed into his independent personality strength and works. However, his broad-minded mind made him adapt to the situation, and his love for life and his enterprising heart made him always devote himself to the embrace of nature. The Huangzhou series of works, such as Dingfengbo, Niannujiao's Nostalgia on Red Cliff, and Fu before and after Red Cliff, artistically and truly reflect Su Shi's attitude towards life in this period of adversity, which is detached, adaptive, wild and open-minded.