Su Shi has achieved great accomplishments in writing, poetry and ci, and can be regarded as the representative of the highest literary achievement in the Song Dynasty. Moreover, Su Shi's creative activities are not limited to literature. His achievements in calligraphy, painting and other fields are outstanding, and he has also contributed to medicine, cooking, water conservancy and other skills. Su Shi typically embodies the cultural spirit of the Song Dynasty.
From the perspective of literary history, Su Shi's attitude towards life has become a paradigm admired by later generations of literati: advancing and retreating freely, being neither humiliated nor surprised. Because Su Shi integrated the two attitudes of scholars in feudal society with the same value scale, he was able to stay calm and go all out.
Of course, this paradigm is more suitable for scholars when they are suffering from ups and downs, and it can lead to a life realm that adheres to integrity and is full of fertility, which is exactly what scholars in the past dynasties after the Song Dynasty hoped to do.
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In the eyes of later generations of literati, Su Shi is a talented literary master, and people are scrambling to draw nutrition from Su Shi's works. In the era of confrontation between the Jin State and the Southern Song Dynasty, Su Shi had a far-reaching influence on both the north and the south.
Su Shi not only influenced the poems of the Song Dynasty, but also inspired the poets of the Gong 'an School in the Ming Dynasty and the poets of the Song Dynasty in the early Qing Dynasty. Su Shi's spirit of liberating ci style was directly inherited by Xin School poets in the Southern Song Dynasty, forming a bold and unconstrained ci school that was equally equal to graceful ci, and its influence has been spread to Chen Weisong and others in the Qing Dynasty.
Su Shi's prose, especially his essays, is the artistic origin of the Gong 'an School's prose, which expresses its unique spirit in the Ming Dynasty. Until the Qing Dynasty, the influence of Su Wen can still be seen in the prose of Yuan Mei and Zheng Xie.
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