Su Shi (1037~1101), Zizhan, also known as Hezhong, called himself Dongpo Jushi. He was a native of Meishan, Meizhou, Sichuan Province (present-day Meishan County, Sichuan). He was born in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty on December 19, the third year of Renzong Jingyou's reign, and is known for his "Dongpo Jushi", "Houjiji", and "Sequel Jushi". Su Shi did not begin to read properly until he was eight years old, and his mother was his teacher. Since Su Shi was a gifted scholar from a young age, he progressed very quickly under his mother's tutelage. His father was Su Xun, his mother was Cheng, and he had a younger brother, Su Zhe. Later, Su Shi went to the Taoist private school, which was a very ordinary place of education for the common people at that time. Many of the children who attended the private school with him were merchants and peasants, and Su Shi spent his childhood in the private school, which cultivated his common people's character, and helped him a lot in his later life. His father, Su Xun, although aimed at the imperial examinations, but he started his studies too late, and as a result, he did not win the exams and lived a miserable life of unrecognized talent. So he expected a lot from his brothers Su Shi and Su Zhe.

Renzong Jiayou first year (1056 AD) at the age of twenty-one, he and his younger brother Su Zhe in the company of his father to the capital to participate in the examination; is the year of the successful preparation for the exams of the two brothers, and the next spring together to participate in the imperial examinations, and a first stroke of a bachelor's degree. At the imperial examination, he presented twenty-five essays, which were so appreciated by Emperor Renzong that he named Su Shi a scholar of the Hanlin Academy. Ouyang Xiu, the examiner at that time, once said, "I will avoid this person and go out of my way. This shows the love of Ouyang Xiu in promoting the juniors. Later on, Su Shi and Su Zhe were to learn from Ouyang Xiu.

While he was successful in his studies, Su Shi's mother, Cheng Shih, died of illness in April of the second year of the Jiayou era, and he was left to worry about his mother's death for three years, delaying the start of his career in the government. I do not know whether because Su Shi destined to be caught by fate, after this, his cab way became not very smooth, not all the way to the clouds. He lost his wife at the age of 29 in the second year of Emperor Yingzong's reign (1065 AD), and then lost his father the following year, and was again in mourning for three years.

He was successively deported, and because of Xie Jingwen's false accusation, he was sent out as a general judge of Hangzhou, and transferred to the state of Huxu, etc. At this time, he wrote 'Drinking'. It was at this time that he wrote the famous poem , and and other poems. In the second year of Yuanfeng, when he was forty-three years old, the famous Li Ding "Wutai Poetry Case" occurred, for which he was imprisoned and died several times. The next year, he was deported to Huangzhou. But at the time he was deported to Huangzhou, it was the time when he created the most works, such as , , and , all of which are works of this period. This time can be said to be the highest peak of his life literary development, and therefore left many immortal literary works.

Later, Wang Anshi came to power, because Su Shi's political thinking was more conservative, although he was dissatisfied with the current social situation, but he was not completely opposed to Wang Anshi's idea of reform, he just hoped that the reform could be carried out in a more moderate way, and that if he wanted to change the law, he should do it step by step, instead of seeking profits in a hurry, as in the case of Wang Anshi's change of the law. So he kept writing to the emperor, submitted <discuss school and tribute zazhi>, <admonish buy zhejiang lamps>, and then wrote <on the emperor> and <ten thousand words>, but were not accepted by the emperor. Su Shi thus became a member of the old law school against Wang Anshi and other new law school, and was politically ostracized. He lost his wife at the age of fifty-seven in the eighth year of the Yuanyou era, and the Empress Dowager, who had used him so much, died in the same year, causing the situation in Hangzhou, where he had been reappointed by the court, to take a sharp turn for the worse, and it was then that he wrote his popular piece, <>, which is also very popular.

Afterward, he was relegated to different desolate and remote places, such as Huizhou, and his mood was somewhat uneasy, as can be seen in the poem 〈August 7 Days into Gan through the fearful beach〉. The only difference is that he was relegated farther and farther, even to Danzhou, which is now Hainan Island. It was the southernmost, most remote and barbaric part of China at that time, and was almost unenlightened. But Su Shi at this time has looked away from everything, to achieve the realm of life open-minded and uninhibited. So he was able to enjoy himself and accept this kind of life peacefully. In his poems, he even found the harsh environment in which he was living to be lovely and desirable, such as in the poems "Eating Lychee", "Strokes", and "Mountain Village", etc. This optimistic and adaptable idea can be seen. Until the first year of Jianzhong Jingguo (1101 AD), he received the imperial decree to return north, and when he arrived at Changzhou, he became ill and could not continue his journey northward, so he could only lie ill in Changzhou (Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province). But it was too late for him, July 28 of this year, Su Shi died. The last masterpiece he left behind was the poem "Crossing the Sea on the Night of June 20th": "The Senate and the Dipper are about to turn for the third night, and the bitter rain and the wind have cleared the sky. In his sixty-six years of life, Su Shi may have had many ups and downs, and may have been in a difficult situation, but he never lost his will to be disillusioned, and he always lived a strong life. And the most rare, should be he always retained the heart of the tender and delicate poet it! Because of this, he left a thousand years of works so that our future generations can get a glimpse of his rich literary talent, to appreciate his true inner world.