Su Shi's poem to his son is: Everyone raises a son and hopes to be smart. I have been delayed by cleverness all my life. I just hope that my children will be silly and honest, so as not to bring disasters and difficulties to the public. Before reading Su Shi's poem in detail, its creative background was that Su Shi was jailed for opposing the new law and mocking "new progress" in the poem, which was also the "Wutai Poetry Case" that shocked the ruling and opposition parties. Later, due to the rescue of many senior officials and the ancestral motto of "don't kill the literati" in the Song Dynasty, Su Shi was saved from death and relegated to Huangzhou.
Appreciation of Su Shi's Poems
We all know that Su Shi is a great writer with excellent poems, words and essays. It is natural to describe him as clever, but we all know that Su Shi was envied and framed for being too clever, and his career was even more frustrated. Therefore, the last two sentences of the poem, "I only wish my son is stupid and loyal, and there is no disaster and no difficulty in reaching the public", are Su Shi's life insights based on his own personal experience. I just hope my children are stupid and free from disasters and disasters until they become officials.