Su Shi's Poems and Ci Poetry

Ci, as the so-called "literature of a generation", is a quiet and gentle trickle in the long history of Chinese poetry, but Su Shi's creative practice of "taking poetry as Ci" has turned it into a turbulent and magnificent torrent. The key to Su Shi's innovation of ci style lies in "returning poetry to ci", that is, applying his poetic skills to ci writing.

Although Su Shi's attempt of "integrating poetry with poetry" changed the original aesthetic characteristics of Ci, it greatly broadened the realm and theme of Ci, which made the morality of the article and children's affair coexist in Ci, and then brought the function of "expressing ambition" of "Poetry" into Ci, which greatly improved the literary status of Ci.

in the field of ci poetry, Su Shi carried out the literary concept of "Ming Dow is practical" and "making up for the world", introduced "poetic way" into the creation of ci poetry, promoted the relatively humble ci poetry, and carried and publicized the personality strength and subjective spirit of the literati in ci poetry, thus achieving the unity of poetic way and ci poetry way.

Su Shi takes poetry as his ci, which first refers to the expansion of the life content reflected by ci. Before Su Shi, the scope of ci was very small and there were many restrictions. When Su Shi came out, he only thought that ci was an integral part of poetry, and anything that could be included in poetry could be included in ci. Ci could recite history, extol the past, reason, talk about Zen, entrust mysterious thoughts with signs, and express solemn and stirring feelings or resentment with syllables, such as the feelings of life, the ups and downs of official career, the gathering and separation of relatives and friends, and the appreciation of natural scenery, which can be like ci. This is a great liberation of ci.