Lin Yutang once said: Su Dongpo is a hopeless optimist, a great humanist, a friend of the people, a great writer, a great calligrapher, an innovative painter, an experimenter in brewing, an engineer, a puritan hater, a Buddhist in yoga, an astronaut, a poet and a clown, but this is not enough to explain all of Su Dongpo …
There is a Su Dongpo in everyone's heart. As long as you look at Song Ci, you can't bypass him. Su Dongpo was an outstanding leader of literary innovation in the Northern Song Dynasty. He changed the stale style of writing at that time and advocated nature, such as flowing water, which was uncertain at first. His writing is arbitrary; His poems are broad in subject matter, fresh and bold, and unique in using exaggerated metaphors; His prose works are rich and unrestrained, ranking among the "eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties"; He is also good at literati painting, especially at ink bamboo, strange stones and dead wood. He is the author of Seven Episodes of Dongpo, Yi Zhuan of Dongpo, Dongpo Yuefu, Xiaoxiang Bamboo Stone Atlas, Ancient Wood and Strange Stone Atlas, etc.
Su Dongpo was born in a scholarly family. Influenced by his family and parents, Su Dongpo was smart and studious since childhood. I know books at the age of seven, and I can write articles at the age of ten, and I can often be praised by my relatives and friends. When Su Dongpo was a teenager, he was determined to read all the books on earth. He was ambitious and enterprising since he was a child, and took Fan Pang as an example. In the first year of Jiayou, Su Dongpo took part in the imperial examination and won the appreciation of the examiner Ouyang Xiu with an article "On Punishment and Loyalty". However, Ouyang Xiu mistakenly thought that it was his student Ceng Gong. In order to avoid suspicion, he became the second one. Su Dongpo once wrote in an article: "Hao Tao is a scholar and can kill people. Said to kill the third, Yao said to kill the third. " No minister in North Korea knows where this box is. Ouyang Xiu asked him where he was, and Su Dongpo replied, "How do you know the source!" Hearing this, Ouyang Xiu could not help admiring Su Dongpo's heroism and innovative spirit, and thought that his articles would be unique in the future. With Ouyang Xiu's repeated praise, Su Dongpo became more and more famous. Whenever he has a new work, it will spread all over Beijing immediately. Just as he was about to show his talents, the news of his mother's death came, and the two brothers went home with their father to attend the funeral. After the period of mourning, he returned to Beijing as a judge in Fengxiang Building, and returned to Korea four years later to enter Deng Wengu Music School. In a.d. 1066, Su Xun died of illness, and the two brothers helped the coffin to return to their hometown, and they kept filial piety for three years. Three years later, Su Dongpo returned to North Korea, and Wang Anshi's political reform, which shook the ruling and opposition parties, had just begun. Su Dongpo's teachers and friends, including Ouyang Xiu, who admired him, were forced to leave Beijing because they opposed the political reform. It is not the "peaceful world" that we saw at that time. Su Dongpo was too eager to oppose the political reform, which led to the exclusion of the new party. After that, Su Dongpo spent most of his life in exile.