In 159, 22-year-old Su Shi and 2-year-old younger brother Su Zhe had just become the new scholars of Dasong. After returning to their hometown for three years, they were going to return to Bianjing by water and met Guo Lun at Jiazhou (now Leshan, Sichuan) Ferry. So I wrote this poem "Guo Lun"
No one knows the warriors in Hexi, and I read the boat in Jinting Pavilion at dusk.
passers-by think that horses are thin, but they don't know that iron is as big as rafters.
Because the West has not fought for a long time, I refuse to be the first to ride.
I should look at your collection of flying arrows from the perspective of Shi and Yu Mu.
Guo Lun should be the first poem written by Su Shi when he was young.
From Su Shi's poems, we can know that Guo Lun was originally a famous warrior in Hexi area, and Su Shi's impression of him still stayed in the Dingchuan Village Battle at that time.
Guo Lun, holding the weapon in his hand, bravely rushed into Xixia's army without fear of death, leaving a hole in the neck of the enemy general. But it is such a warrior who has been repeatedly suppressed by the court with one heart and one mind.
After the signing of the peace agreement in Song and Xia Dynasties, Guo Lun lost the meaning of existence, so he had to ride on his green white horse, carry a bow and arrow that once frightened the enemy, and embark on a long journey alone.
He didn't even know how he got to Sichuan, and he didn't know where he was going next. He just happened to meet Su Shi at a certain moment and left an eternal impression in Su Shi's poems.
But Su Shi didn't expect that the end of the warrior he described actually predicted his own future.
When Su Shi met Wang Anshi, the biggest political enemy in his life, it was probably doomed that Su Shi would go to the end.
After that, Su Shi was just like Guo Lun, and there was no place for heroes.
Su Shi was demoted again and again, and the route of demoting officials was almost all over the world in the Song Dynasty.
Su Shi later laughed at himself: "I heard that you have made great achievements in your life, and you are in Danzhou, Huizhou, Huangzhou", which actually illustrates the twists and turns in his life in politics. And Su Shi left us a lot of masterpieces in Huangzhou, which made us admire.