However, Wu Fugu was finally recommended as a filial piety because of his outstanding moral articles, and was summoned by Song Shenzong and awarded the post of professor at the Palace. To this end, Wu Fu-gu's fame was heavy in one's hand and in the other's hand, and great Confucian scholars such as Sima Guang, Han Qi, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Li Shizhong, etc. all fell in love with him and were willing to make friends with him. However, Wu, who was old-fashioned and easy-going, was interested in mountains and rivers and was weak in fame, and soon resigned on the grounds of "filial piety". Song Shenzong also praised his filial piety and granted him the title of "Mr. Yuanyou".
Looking at Wu's life of restoring ancient ways, the most commendable thing is his friendship with Su Shi. Wu Fugu's father, Ren Hanlin, knew Su Shi when he was a lecturer. Su Shi said this situation in "Book with Wu Ziye": "Being less in the government, it is inferior to taste and receive the first lecture. Life and death are broad and pitch for a lifetime. " After that, Su Shi learned from Li Shizhong's introduction that Wu Fu-gu was a man who exchanged poems and books for many years. In the tenth year of Xining (177), Su Shi was transferred from Mizhou to Xuzhou and went to Jinan via Qingzhou to meet Wu Fugu for the first time. When Su Shi was in Huizhou, he once said in the book "Answer to Wu Xiucai" to Wu Bizhong, the son of retro: "As soon as Ziye saw the servant, he ordered the birth of the law." "Although I can't do it, I like to recite his words, and I will taste an article" Asking for Health "for Ziye." It can be seen that the first interview between the two people is to explore the way of keeping in good health. Wu Fu-gu's "birth method" is not only different from the immortal family's pursuit of immortality, but also different from the Taoist alchemist's taking medicine, which is obviously another spiritual realm of inaction and detachment. At that moment of increasingly fierce political struggle, Wu's idea of restoring ancient ways has its own uniqueness. It's just that Su Shi, in the face of the shortcomings of the new law, still wants to make a difference and holds a "reserved" attitude towards it, but he greatly appreciates Wu's health preservation theory. It is said that Su Shi also left a law post for this purpose. Since then, Su Shi has been demoted to Huangzhou, and he often sent letters of condolence and exchanged poems, tomb inscriptions and calligraphy. In the sixth year of Yuanfeng (183), he went to Huangzhou to inquire. I regret Su Shi's "illness is very serious, and I can't pay for it." This is Su Wu's second meeting.
in the fifth year of Yuanyou (19), Wang Chu learned about Chaozhou, advocated the construction of Korean temples, and asked Su Shi to write an inscription on the temple. After Su Shi wrote it, he sent a letter to Wang Chu, taking pains to tell the sample of the tablet he designed, and solemnly confessed that "if the public has replaced it, it will be sealed with Taoist Wu"; "Ziye is sincere, and the public can be very kind." At the same time, I also wrote another letter "On Han Bei Shu with Zi Ye". There is a saying in the book that "Yunchao people, although small people also know etiquette and righteousness, believe as wild words." It can be seen that Sue has considerable trust in Wu. In the eighth year of Yuanyou (193), Su Shi was appointed as the prefect of Dingzhou. Wu Fugu arrived in the capital and met Su Shi again. Su talked about this matter in A Book of Reference: "Wu Ziye will go out of the city to Dingzhou one day." This is Su Wu's third meeting. In the second year, Su Shi decided to take charge of the affairs of the British state. Wu Fugu rushed to Zhending and Yangzhou to say goodbye to Su Shi. Su wrote a poem entitled "Wu Ziye will become a monk and give him a pillow screen on a mountain". This is Su Wu's fourth meeting. In this regard, Su Shi also talked about it in his letter to Bi Zhong: "If you are true, you can see the wild, and there is no word about mourning."
The reason why Wu Fu-gu won Su Shi's admiration and deep friendship lies in his feelings of being ignorant of the world, especially when Su Shi suffered from political hardships of being demoted again and again, he was inspired by Wu Fu-gu's Taoist ideas, and realized his dissolute character and relaxed attitude towards life, and even gained the principles of "harmony" and "security" that gradually accumulated and let nature take its course. In Su Shi's trouble, it is indeed beneficial to find spiritual comfort and live calmly. It must also be pointed out that, although Wu Fugu built an monastery and became a monk, he was not obsessed with the art of immortality, and even regarded alchemy medicine as a clod, while Tao Ran was in the mountains and rivers. This "birth method" was acceptable to Su Shi. On this basis, the friendship established by Su Wu has the same interest in life and the same cultural and artistic hobbies. It is this cultural and spiritual connection that links the sincere friendship between Su and Wu.
In the winter of the third year of Yuan Fu (AD 11), Su Shi was pardoned and returned to the North. He was a 96-year-old retro man, mindful of Dongpo's kindness, and decided to see him off. When he chased him from Panyu (present-day Guangzhou) to Qingyuan Gorge, he was ill because of old age, cold and illness, and died on his way home on April 13th of the following lunar calendar. Su Shi was shocked to hear the bad news in Sichuan, so he was very sad. He wept and wrote a eulogy: "Zi Ye's way is against the world, and he is silent and self-controlled ... He made friends with officials and officials all over the time, and he was anxious to slow himself down, forgetting his thirst and hunger, taking the road as his home, but returning to righteousness, being old at work, and never being self-righteous ...".
The tomb of Wu Fugu and his wife is located in Matian Mountain, Jingou Village, Jinzao Town, Chaoyang District. It is one of the eight ancient scenic spots in Chaoyang. In front of Matian Mountain, Rongjiang River is winding like a practice, and the peaks are listed on the left and right, so it is called "Nine Dragons spit pearls". The tomb was built in the second year of Yuan Fu in the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 199), with a history of nearly 914 years. It sits southwest to northeast, with a width of 13.9 meters and a depth of 16.9 meters, covering an area of 35 square meters. The tomb is a three-step, three-stele tombstone, and the inscription reads "Professor Wang Zu Palace, Mr. Kao Ci Yuan You, worshiping the hometown sage and restoring ancient ways to Wu Gong, and sealing the tomb of Mrs. Zhen Shuo Xu Shi". There are five columns in front of the tomb, namely Kai, Xing, Cao, Seal and Lishu.
Wu Fugu's couple's tomb is a rare, distinctive and unique "imperial burial" tomb. On October 1th, 214, with the approval of Shantou Municipal People's Government, it was announced as a cultural relics protection unit in Shantou.