Su Shi's poems are the most dripping and 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 Su Shi's attitude towards various unreasonable phenomena in social reality is "out of date", and he always regards criticizing reality as an important theme of his poems.
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.
2. Prose
Su Shi's prose presents rich and colorful artistic features. Su Shi is really expressive, and there is almost nothing objective or inner feelings that his works can't express.
Su Wen's style changes freely with different objects and is as natural and smooth as running water. On the other hand, Su Wen achieved the same goal by expressing his wishful thinking and thoughts.
Su Wen is full of energy, but his language is simple and natural, which is one of the characteristics that Wen Song is different from Tang Wen. Su Shi has high attainments in literature and poetry, and can be called the representative of the highest literary achievement in Song Dynasty.
3. Creation is not limited to literature.
Su Shi's creative activities are not limited to literature. He has made outstanding achievements in calligraphy, painting and other fields, and also made contributions in medicine, cooking, water conservancy and other skills. Su Shi is a typical representative of the cultural spirit in Song Dynasty.
Third, Su Shi's creative style
Su Shi's works are expressive, and there are almost no objective things or inner feelings that his works can't express. Su Wen's style changes freely with different objects and is as natural and smooth as running water.
1, unrestrained
Heroic, magnificent, passionate and even slightly sad feelings are integrated into poetry, and life is won by generous and heroic images and broad and magnificent scenes.
2. Open-minded style
This is the poetic style that best represents Su Shi's thought and personality characteristics, and expresses the poet's desire to retire, avoid troubled times and look forward to peace.
3. Elegant style
The number of Su Shi's graceful words accounts for an absolute proportion in his total number of words. These words are pure and profound in feelings and healthy and lofty in style, and they are also the inheritance and development of traditional graceful words.
Fourthly, the influence of Su Shi's works on later generations.
1, Su Shi's attitude towards life became a model admired by later literati.
Advance and retreat freely, without humiliation. Because Su Shi integrated the two attitudes of feudal scholars on the same value scale, he was able to keep calm and go all out.
Of course, this model is more suitable for literati who have suffered from ups and downs, and it can lead to a life of integrity and abundance, which is exactly what literati in previous dynasties hoped to do after the Song Dynasty.
2. Su Shi's aesthetic attitude provides an inspiring aesthetic model for future generations.
He embraces the world with a broad aesthetic vision, so everything is considerable and beauty is everywhere. This paradigm has opened up a new world for future generations in subject matter, content and expression.
Therefore, it is a historical necessity that Su Shi is universally loved by later literati.
3. Su Shi's views on culture and Taoism were very unique in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Su Shi believes that article art has independent value, such as "pure gold and beautiful jade". Article is not only a tool to carry Tao, but also an advanced form of human spiritual activities.
The "Tao" in Su Shi's mind is not limited to Confucianism, but refers to the law of things in general. Therefore, Su Shi advocates that articles should be as natural as the objective world, with a natural attitude.
He advocated the diversity and vividness of artistic style, and opposed the unification of literary style, believing that it would make the literary world as barren as "yellow hair and white reed".
It is under the guidance of this unique literary thought that Su Shi's prose presents rich and colorful artistic characteristics. He absorbed artistic nutrition extensively from his previous works, the most important source of which was the heroic momentum of Mencius and strategists in the Warring States period, Zhuangzi's rich association and natural and unrestrained writing style.