Su Shi's delicious food: Dongpo meat, Dongpo tofu, Dongpo fish, Dongpo elbow, Dongpo bean jelly and Dongpo soup. According to legend, Su Shi was short of money when he was in Huangzhou, so as a gourmet, he began to study vegetarian food, so he made this Dongpo tofu with Huangzhou tofu, which was bright in color and mellow in aftertaste.
Su Shi (1037-11year), a layman named Dongpo, was a writer, painter, politician and thinker in the Northern Song Dynasty in China, and was also one of the important figures in the history of China literature. Su Shi was born in Kaifeng, Henan. He has made outstanding achievements in poetry, ci, prose and calligraphy.
His literary works are full of unrestrained personality and touching emotions. He is famous for his bold and free-spirited poetic style. His poems have a wide range of themes, including descriptions of landscapes and pastoral areas, satire and reflection on current social events, and convey his profound thoughts on life, the world and nature. His ci shows strong personal feelings and philosophy of life, and has high artistic value. Su Shi is also an outstanding essayist with fresh and natural prose and profound artistic conception.
His "Dongpo Yuefu" chapter is full of feelings of home and country, expressing concern for traditional culture and people's lives. Apart from his literary talent, Su Shi is also an outstanding painter and calligrapher. He was good at cursive and running script, and put forward the artistic concept of "giving priority to freehand brushwork and giving consideration to work", which had a far-reaching influence on later calligraphy. Politically, Su Shi held many important positions, but because of his different political views, he angered powerful people and was demoted many times.
Su Shi is one of the outstanding cultural celebrities in the cultural history of China, and his works are admired and imitated by later scholars. His poems and essays are widely spread, which have influenced the literary creation for hundreds of years and had a far-reaching impact on the ideological inspiration and aesthetic pursuit of later literati.
Several representative works of Su Shi
1, Poem on Red Cliff: This is one of Su Shi's most famous essays, describing the scenes and heroes of the famous battle in Battle of Red Cliffs during the Three Kingdoms period. Through the description of historical figures and magnificent natural scenery, the author expresses his thoughts on life, the passage of time and heroism.
2. "Water Melody": This is a poem by Su Shi, which expresses personal sadness and parting feelings with graceful and affectionate brushstrokes. The most famous sentence is "The world is thin, human feelings are evil, and flowers are easy to fall at dusk when it rains", expressing the feelings of impermanence and warmth of human feelings.
3. "Jiangchengzi Mizhou Hunting": This is a bold and free poem by Su Shi, describing the scene of autumn harvest, which leads to thinking about life situation and calling for self-liberation. Among them, "The setting sun is lonely in Qi Fei, and the autumn water is * * * the sky is one color" is known as the eternal quatrain.
4. Dongli Yuefu: This is a collection of Su Shi's essays, which contains songs and poems he wrote to the villagers, expressing his concern about rural life, feelings of home and country and people's sufferings.
5. Drunk at Chibi: This is Su Shi's famous painting, which combines green landscapes, free calligraphy and self-deprecating and bold poems, showing his praise and narcissism for natural landscapes.