Su Dongpo (once) on Yutang Day, a scholar was good at singing and asked, "How does my ci compare with Liu Yong?" (He) replied: "Liu Yong's ci is only suitable for girls of seventeen or eighteen years old, singing' Yang Liuan Xiaofeng Canyue' with red dental tablets, and the bachelor's ci must be a big shot in Kansai, singing' Never Return' with copper pipa and iron plate." Su Dongpo therefore burst out laughing.
Su Shi introduced:
1, Su Shi (1037-11year), the word Zi Zhan, also known as He Zhong, was named Tieguan Taoist, Dongpo Jushi and Su Dongpo, Su Xian and Poxian. Meishan, Meizhou (now Meishan City, Sichuan Province), Luancheng, Hebei Province, was a writer, calligrapher and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, and a historical water control celebrity.
2. In the second year of Jiayou (1057), he took part in the second division of palace examination, and won the Jinshi and (once said, he was a scholar). In the sixth year of Jiayou (106 1), he took the system examination and was awarded the judge of Fengxiang prefecture.
When I was in Song Shenzong, I worked in Hangzhou, Mizhou, Xuzhou and Huzhou. In the third year of Yuanfeng (1080), he was demoted as the assistant envoy of Huangzhou Yingyong because of Wutai poetry case. After Song Zhezong acceded to the throne, he became a bachelor of Hanlin, a bachelor of reading and a minister of rites, and was released to take charge of Hangzhou, Yingzhou, Yangzhou and Dingzhou.
4. After the new party came to power, it was demoted to Huizhou and Danzhou. While in Song Huizong, he was pardoned, returned to the north and died in Changzhou. In the Southern Song Dynasty, posthumous title was canonized as "Wenzhong".
5. Su Shi was a literary leader in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty and made great achievements in poetry, ci, writing, calligraphy and painting. His poems are broad in subject matter, fresh and healthy, good at exaggeration and metaphor, and unique in style. He is also called "Su Huang" with Huang Tingjian. His words are bold and unconstrained, and they are both bold and unconstrained representatives with Xin Qiji, and they are called "Su Xin";
6. His writings are rich and unrestrained, and he is called "Ou Su" with Ouyang Xiu, and "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties" with Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Ouyang Xiu, Su Xun, Su Zhe, Wang Anshi and Ceng Gong;
7. He is good at calligraphy and is also called "Song Sijia" with Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang; He is good at literati painting, especially ink bamboo, strange stones and dead wood. His works include Seven Chapters of Dongpo, Dongpo Yi Zhuan, Dongpo Yuefu, Cold Food Post, Xiaoxiang Bamboo Stone Map, Dead Wood and Strange Stone Map, etc.