Su Shi was a writer, painter and gourmet in the Northern Song Dynasty. Zi Zi Zhan,no. Dongpo lay man. Han nationality, Sichuanese, was buried in Yingchang (now jia county, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province). I have a bumpy career, profound knowledge, high talent, and excellent poetry, calligraphy and painting.
in the second year of Jiayou (157), Su Shi became a scholar. Song Shenzong worked in Fengxiang, Hangzhou, Mizhou, Xuzhou and Huzhou. In the third year of Yuanfeng (18), he was demoted as the deputy envoy of Huangzhou Yong ying because of the Wutai Poetry Case. After Song Zhezong acceded to the throne, he served as a bachelor of Hanlin, a bachelor of reading, and a minister of rites, and was known in Hangzhou, Yingzhou, Yangzhou, Dingzhou and other places. In his later years, he was demoted to Huizhou and Danzhou because of the new party's ruling. Song Huizong was granted amnesty and returned to the North, and died in Changzhou on the way. Song Gaozong posthumously awarded a surname, posthumous title "Wenzhong".
Su Shi's prose is unrestrained and fluent in Wang Yang, and he and Ouyang Xiu are called Ousu, one of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties"; Poems are fresh and vigorous, making good use of exaggeration and metaphor, and their artistic expression is unique. They are also called Su Huang with Huang Tingjian. The school of bold and unconstrained ci has a great influence on later generations, and it is called Su Xin with Xin Qiji; Calligraphy is good at running script and regular script, and can create new ideas. It is full of ups and downs with a pen, and it is childlike. It is also called Song Sijia with Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang. Painting is the same as literature. On painting, it advocates spirit likeness and "scholar painting". He is the author of The Complete Works of Su Dongpo and Dongpo Yuefu.
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In the second year of Yuanfeng (179), 43-year-old Su Shi was transferred to Huzhou Zhizhou. After taking office, he wrote a letter to Shenzong, Huzhou Xie Biao, which was a routine, but Su Shi was a poet, and his writing was often emotional. Even if he wrote a red tape, he could not forget to add some personal color, saying that he was "stupid and untimely, and it was difficult to catch up with the new arrivals" and "old people can not make trouble or can raise Wang".
Su Shi's remarks were used by the New Party, saying that he "fooled the DPRK, was conceited", "resented and resented", "accused and abused Yu" and "harbored evil intentions", while satirizing the government, being rude and disloyal to the emperor. Such a big crime deserves death. They picked out sentences that they thought implied sarcasm from a large number of Su Shi's poems, and for a time, there was a voice of rebellion against the Soviet Union in the imperial court.
On July 28th, Su Shi, who had only been in office for three months, was arrested by the officials of Yushitai and sent to the capital. Dozens of people were involved. This is the famous "Wutai Poetry Case" in the Northern Song Dynasty (Wutai, that is, Yushitai, is called Wutai because cypress trees are planted on it and crows live all year round). The great blow of Wutai poetry case became the turning point of Su Shi's life. The new parties insisted on killing Su Shi, and rescue activities were also carried out at the same time in the ruling and opposition parties. Not only many elders who share Su Shi's political views have written in succession, but even some people of insight of the Reform School have also advised Shenzong not to kill Su Shi.
Wang Anshi retired from Jinling at that time, and also wrote: "How about killing talented people when you have a holy life?" Thanks to everyone's efforts, this poem case was decided by Wang Anshi's "one word", and Su Shi was given a lighter sentence and demoted to Huangzhou (now Huanggang, Hubei Province) as the deputy ambassador of Yong Lian, "placement in this state" and was monitored by local officials. Su Shi was imprisoned for 13 days and was killed. Thanks to Song Taizu's national policy of not killing the literati in Zhao Kuangyin, he only dodged a bullet.
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