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 Su Shi's attitude towards all kinds of unreasonable phenomena in social reality is "one belly is out of date".
Su Shi's Life Experience
Su Shi's life experience is not generally complicated. But the most rare thing is that he has been a man of temperament all his life. Food is his greatest pleasure at the moment. It doesn't matter much where you went, what official you were, or what you suffered. Eating and drinking, stumbling, ups and downs, he saved himself with amazing optimism and appetite.
China people, like countless generations after them, are depressed, turning bad luck into appetite and making fun of life. There is no one but him. Always regard criticizing reality as an important theme of poetry. 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.