What are the main contents of Su Shi's poems?

Su Shi is also a representative figure in the poetry circle of the Northern Song Dynasty. There are more than 2,700 songs with a wide range of topics and rich contents. Sympathy for the people and concern for production are the prominent contents of Su Shi's poems. These poems express people's sufferings, criticize the disadvantages of the times, express sincere feelings, are unpretentious, and open up many social themes rarely involved by predecessors, with extensive materials and novel meanings.

Su Shi's landscape poems and interesting poems have the highest artistic value and are the most popular. Poems such as Visiting Jinshan Temple, Night of Looking at the Sea Tower, Drunk Book of Looking at the Lake Tower and Drinking Rain after Chu Qing on the Lake depict the night of the Yangtze River, the sunny rain in the south of the Yangtze River and the scenery of the West Lake. Poems such as Dengchangshan, Guangli Pavilion, Baibuhong and Dengzhou Haicheng vividly depict the local scenery and places of interest in Jiangbei.

Su Shi is not only good at observing and capturing the different characteristics of local scenery, but also depicts the freshness and simplicity of rural environment with joy and love. The pastoral poems written in Lingnan reflect the harmonious relationship between the author and Huizhou people and Li people.

Su Shi is good at understanding new ideas and wonderful ideas from daily life and ordinary natural scenery, and writes thought-provoking poems, such as Tixilin Wall, Qin Shi, and Sizhou Sangha Pagoda, which convey the meaning of the scene, imply the implication because of the incident, and have endless aftertaste. Some poems are often full of bright and optimistic interest, reflecting the fear of adversity and contempt for suffering.

In addition, Su Shi also wrote many poems to appreciate calligraphy, such as Reading Meng Jiao's Poems, Reading Collected Pictures, and Drunk in the Stone Hall.