Su Shi, one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, is a rare talent. Compared with other writers, Su Shi's literary works are more free and uninhibited. On many issues, he is more enlightened than Lu You and Xin Qiji. This is partly due to his rough life experience. A bamboo stick and mango shoes can beat a horse easily. ?His poems are more about the pursuit and exploration of personal thoughts, recalling his deceased wife, ?and suddenly returning home in the dark dream at night, dressing up outside the small window, looking at each other without words, only a thousand lines of tears. It is expected that the broken part of the intestines will be cut off every year, on a bright moonlit night, there will be short pines. ?He was so sad that he couldn't help himself.

However, if it is more free and easy, in Chinese history, before the Northern Song Dynasty where Su Shi lived, there was the poet Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty. Why is Su Shi more famous abroad? This starts with one person, Mr. Lin Yutang, the great Chinese writer and translator of the last century. Lin Yutang, a native of Fujian, was born into a scholarly family and received a good family education since he was a child. What is admirable is that he is also a veritable academic master. He has attended prestigious schools since he was a child. He graduated from Harvard and even got a Ph.D. Today, we are extremely admired by people who can read books to Ph.D., let alone in that era.

There must be a certain reason why Mr. Lin Yutang made Su Shi famous abroad. The reason is that Mr. Lin Yutang is the only writer who writes in English. Even today, in many aristocratic families in Japan, English is a must-learn language because of its wide applicability. Therefore, at that time, Lin Yutang, who was born in a scholarly family, must have been receiving English education since he was a child. This is probably one of the reasons why Mr. Lin Yutang is so good at English. Of course, as Chinese becomes increasingly internationalized today, I believe that Chinese will gradually become another global language. Because we have seen that Trump’s granddaughters now speak fluent Chinese.

It is not enough to have good English communication skills. If Su Shi is to become popular abroad, the translator's popularity in English-speaking countries is also essential. Of course, with Mr. Lin Yutang, these are no longer problems. To this day, Mr. Lin Yutang is even more famous in English-speaking countries than other writers of his generation. Mr. Lin Yutang once wrote a book called "My Country and My People". This book introduced our great China and the history, life and culture of the Chinese people to Western countries in detail. Pearl Buck once wrote for this book. Preface, who is Pearl Buck? American writer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It can be seen that Mr. Lin Yutang's popularity is not a problem at all.

Last point, at that time, European and American circles were very interested in Chinese philosophy, including the praise of ancient Chinese sages by French Voltaire and others, and the German writer Hermann Hesse's praise of Lao-Zhuang philosophy. love, these also create an environment. Su Shi's writing style was to a large extent close to this trend of thought at that time. As for Mr. Lin Yutang, he directly called Su Shi his favorite writer and wrote a book "The Biography of Su Dongpo" in English. Until later, Mr. Lin Yutang believed that "The Biography of Su Dongpo" was the best book he wrote.