Cold food post is also called Huangzhou cold food poem post or Huangzhou cold food post. Su Shi's calligraphy is a combination of poems and books. It has an inkpad with a length of 34.2 cm and a width of 199.5 cm, 17 lines and 129 characters. It is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
In the third year of Yuanfeng (1080), Su Shi became a victim of political struggle because of the Wutai poetry case. In the third year, he was demoted to Huangzhou and wrote two five-character poems at the Cold Food Festival: "Since I came to Huangzhou, I have experienced three cold foods. Cherish spring, want to keep spring, and manage spring from self-management to no one regrets. This year also suffered from continuous rain, for two months, the climate was bleak as autumn. Sniff begonia flowers and swallow branches of snow.
Sneaking around in the middle of the night is really something. He Shu's sick teenager had a white start. ""Chunjiang wants to enter the house, and the rain is coming. The hut is like a fishing boat, in a misty water cloud. The empty kitchen is cooking some cold dishes, and damp reeds are burning at the bottom of the stove. I didn't know it was a cold food, but I saw crows burning the remaining paper money. The emperor's palace gate has nine floors, which are far-reaching and difficult to return. The tombs of ancestors in the distance cannot be mourned. I'm going to cry poor, too. I can't afford to blow it. "
This post is the masterpiece of Su Shi's running script. 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.
Cold food poems have 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 also written by Yan, Yang and Li Xitai. Those who want to restore Dongpo may not be the same."
Cold food poetry is a literary work in China traditional culture, which originated from the school of cold food poetry in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Cold food poems usually refer to books compiled from many cold food poems, which are created to express the thoughts and memories of spring and Tomb-Sweeping Day.
In the traditional customs of China, the Cold Food Festival is the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day. People will visit graves, worship their ancestors, pick grass, fly kites and enjoy flowers. Cold food poetry posts are produced to record and inherit this custom. It is not only a literary work, but also an expression of people's nature, life and emotions.
Cold food poems usually contain a lot of poems, depicting the scenery of spring, people's feelings, thoughts of their deceased relatives and so on. These poems not only have literary value, but also reflect the social outlook and people's emotional experience at that time.
In a word, Poems on Cold Food is a collection of poems with the theme of cold food and Tomb-Sweeping Day, which embodies the concern and expression of China traditional culture on nature, life and emotion.