Sansu refers to the collective name of Su Xun, Su Shi and Su Che, the writers of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Su Xun (1009-1066), also known as Lao Su, had the courtesy name Mingyun and the nickname Laoquan. A native of Meishan, Meizhou (now Meishan, Sichuan Province). Together with Su Shi and Su Che, they are collectively known as the "Three Sus". Chinese writer and essayist in the Northern Song Dynasty, one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties.
Su Shi (1037-1101), also known as Zizhan and Hezhong, was known as Tieguan Taoist and Dongpo layman. He was known as Su Dongpo, Su Xian and Po Xian in the world. A native of Meishan, Meizhou (now part of Meishan City, Sichuan Province), his ancestral home is Luancheng, Hebei Province. He was a writer, calligrapher and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, and a famous figure in water control in history. His father is Su Xun and his younger brother is Su Che.
Su Che (March 18, 1039 - October 25, 1112), also known as Ziyou and Tongshu, was also known as Elder Dongxuan and later as Yingbin Yielao. A native of Meishan, Meizhou (now part of Sichuan Province). Officials, writers and thinkers in the Northern Song Dynasty.
The main influence of Su Shi
Su Shi has a great spiritual insight, so he can find new ideas everywhere. Su Shi's profound thinking about life made him have a calm and broad-minded attitude towards the ups and downs of honor and disgrace, which is fully reflected in Su Shi's poems. Su Shi's poems in adversity certainly contain pain, anger, and depression, but more of Su Shi's poems express his disdain for suffering and his transcendence of pain.
Su Shi was a man of great erudition and talent, and his mastery of the artistic techniques of poetry had reached a level of proficiency. He treated artistic standards with a spirit of innovation and innovation, and whatever he wished, he could achieve success at his fingertips. Moreover, the expressive ability of Su Shi's poems is amazing. There are almost no themes in Su Shi's works that cannot be included in poems. The late Northern Song Dynasty, represented by the "Yuanyou" poetry circle, was the heyday of Song poetry. The creations of Su Shi, Wang Anshi, Huang Tingjian, Chen Shidao and others pushed the art of Song poetry to its peak.
The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Sansu