About the author:
Su Shi, also known as Dongpo Jushi and Su Xian, was born in 1037 and died in101year. He was born in Meishan, Meizhou in the Northern Song Dynasty, and his ancestral home was Luancheng, Hebei. He was a famous writer, calligrapher and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty. Su Shi's literary achievements are extremely high, and he is the representative of the highest literary achievements in the last Song Dynasty.
Su Shi showed great talent and received a good education from an early age. In two years, Song Jiayou, his younger brother Su Zhe and his father Su Xun became officials at the same time, which became a beautiful talk for a while, and people said "a three-sou". In the sixth year of Jiayou, Su Shi was admitted to the Chinese technical secondary school, and entered the third place, ranking first in a hundred years. He was awarded the judge of Fengxiang Prefecture in Dali.
Main impacts:
Su Shi's views on society and thoughts on life are undisguised in his literary works, among which poetry is the most hearty. In more than 2,700 Su poems, the theme of intervening in social reality and thinking about life is very prominent. Su Shi's attitude towards various unreasonable phenomena in social reality is "out of date", and he always regards criticizing reality as an important theme of his poems.
What is more valuable is that Su Shi's criticism of society is not limited to the New Deal or the present. He criticized the long-standing abuses and bad habits in feudal society, and embodied a deeper critical consciousness. Su Shi's life was ups and downs, and he traveled everywhere, and his life experience was extremely rich. He is good at summing up experience from life experience and seeing laws from objective things.
Calligraphy art:
Su Shi is good at writing running script and regular script, and he is also called "Song Sijia" with Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang. He studied with famous artists in Jin, Tang and Five Dynasties, and integrated the creative styles of Wang Sengqian, Xu Hao, Li Yong, Yan Zhenqing and Yang Ningshi into his family. He once claimed: "I can't create ideas in my books" and "I don't practice the ancients". Huang Tingjian called him: "In the early years, the pen was refined and not as natural as the boss.