Su Shi is very good at writing running script and regular script. Su Shi is also called "Song Sijia" with Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang in calligraphy. He once learned what famous calligraphers in Jin, Tang and Five Dynasties were good at, and then merged the calligraphy styles of Wang Sengqian, Xu Hao, Li Yong, Yan Zhenqing and Yang Ningshi to form a new calligraphy style. Su Shi also claimed: "I can't create ideas with books" and "create new ideas without practicing the ancients". Su Shi's life was extraordinary, and he experienced many ups and downs in his life, so these experiences led to the ups and downs of his calligraphy style. Su Shi has written many works, among which the existing ones are Fu on the Red Wall, Poems on Cold Food in Huangzhou and Sacrifice to Huang.
Su Shi is particularly good at painting ink bamboo. He advocates the feeling of being out of the picture and opposes the limitation of procedure. He also put forward the concept of "literati painting". Su Shi's works in the field of painting mainly include Atlas of Ancient Trees and Strange Stones, Atlas of Xiaoxiang Bamboo Stones and so on.
Su Shi is a veritable gourmet. Some people say that he eats the best among poets and writes the best poems among foodies. He also wrote an article specially for pork. The full text of this article is: "clean the pot, lack of water, can not afford to smoke firewood." Don't rush him when he is ripe, it looks good when the fire is full. Noble people refuse to eat, and poor people don't know how to cook. I got up in the morning and made two bowls. I was full and didn't care. "This is really eating food to a certain extent. Su Shi also created many famous dishes, such as Dongpo meat, Dongpo elbow, Dongpo tofu, Dongpo fish and so on. Su Shi is not only immortal in the history of literature, but also made great contributions to future generations in diet.