Is Su Shi comparable to Shakespeare?

Su Shi wrote poems, poems, essays, calligraphy and painting, engaged in politics, medicine, cooking and water conservancy. Without him, there would be no Su Causeway, there would be no Lianzhou culture, and his arch-enemy Wang Anshi would have lost a few peerless poems. Ouyang Xiu will lose a talented student, Su Er will not sound fluent in Su San, Su Men's Fourth Bachelor will lose some luster, and even Lin Yutang's biography of Su Dongpo will disappear. Not to mention how many interesting legends the people will lose, at least the people under his rule will lose a good leader at that time.

1. What would China be like without Su Shi? What would Britain be like without Shakespeare?

Without Ton Dube, Zulu people might still be in the stage of oral literature, which has a much greater impact on South Africa than Shakespeare did on Britain. But do you know Dolby? This comparison is meaningless.

2. What would the world be like without Su Shi? What would the world be like without Shakespeare?

What would the world be like without Genghis Khan? What would the world be like without Columbus? Such a comparison is meaningless.

3. Shakespeare is the trunk and Su Shi is the leaf.

This should be the conclusion of this question. However, it still makes no sense. The author thinks there is a mainstream in world literature, but I don't think China literature, Japanese literature, Spanish literature and German literature need Shakespeare as the backbone. They have their own Qu Yuan, Murasaki shikibu, Cervantes and Goethe, and their literary development does not have the status of Shakespeare. I don't know where the author's conclusion comes from.

In the contemporary world, Shakespeare is indeed more famous than Su Shi. After all, English is the world language. According to the logic of the topic, not only Su Shi, Qu Yuan, Haruki Murakami, Cervantes and Goethe are inferior to Shakespeare. To be a comparative writer, we should start with the content, language and expression of the works, and only talk about influence. The best writer should be a forgotten one. He wrote the earliest paragraph, that is, he created literature.

Literally, Su Shi is a scholar who stands out in a country with thousands of years of culture. Shakespeare was the first Luo Guanzhong-style story editor to write a masterpiece in English, on an island with noble French and vulgar English.

From the perspective of influence, Shakespeare influenced the British, who later dominated the world for more than a hundred years and also influenced the whole world. If China dominates the world, Su Shi can also influence the world. However, if the form of influence is concerned, Su Shi is a poet and prose after all, and novels and operas in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties are more appropriate than Shakespeare. For example, China dominated the world for a hundred years, declined in the early 20th century, and participated in two world wars. Then the famous players from all over the world must know something about the various tricks of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. And Su Shi's brain-dead diaosi will come to China, not far away, and pick up a piece of garbage by the Yangtze River and go home, saying that a bachelor may have touched it.