Huangzhou Cold Food Post is one of the three major calligraphy posts, written by Su Shi, a writer and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty. Paper version, 25 lines, *** 129 words, is the representative work of Su Shi's running script. Originally in Yuanmingyuan, now in Beijing Palace Museum.
This is a poem to send a revival, and it is a sigh of life caused by Su Shi's relegation to Huangzhou for three years. The poem is desolate and affectionate, expressing Su Shi's melancholy and lonely mood at this time. The calligraphy of this poem is produced in this mood and situation. The whole calligraphy is full of ups and downs, radiant and unrestrained, and there is no shortage of pens.
Huangzhou Cold Food Poetry Post has a great influence in the history of calligraphy, which is called "the third running script in the world" and is also a leader in Su Shi's calligraphy works. As Huang Tingjian wrote after this poem: "This book was written by Yan, Yang and Li Xitai, and those who try to restore Dongpo may not be the same."
Appreciators of all ages praised cold food stickers as masterpieces. In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhang Hao's grandnephew Zhang Yan wrote an inscription on another piece of paper behind the manuscript of the poem: "The old immortal (referring to Su Shi) is a rare treasure."
Since then, the manuscript of Two Cold Foods in Huangzhou has been called "Post". Dong Qichang, a great painter and calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty, wrote an inscription after the post: "I have read more than 30 original volumes of Mr. Dongpo in my life, and I must take this as a view." In the Qing Dynasty, the cold food post was taken back to the palace and included in the Sanxi Hall post.