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Author: Su Shi (1037-1101), a writer, painter and gourmet in the Northern Song Dynasty. Zi Zi Zhan,no. Dongpo lay man. Han nationality, a Sichuanese, was buried in Yingchang (now jia county, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province). Ouyang Xiu called Ou Su one of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties"; Poetry is fresh and lively, good at using exaggeration and metaphor, and unique in artistic expression. Together with Huang Tingjian, they are called Su Huang. The uninhibited school has a great influence on later generations, and it is called Su Xin with Xin Qiji. He is the author of The Complete Works of Su Dongpo and Dongpo Yuefu.

Appreciation of extended materials: the meaning of poetry is very profound, but the language used is extremely simple. Simplicity is Su Shi's linguistic feature. What the poet pursues is to express a fresh and unprecedented artistic conception in simple and fluent language; And this artistic conception also flashes the light of philosophy from time to time.

Judging from this poem, the language expression is concise, but the connotation is rich. In other words, poetic language itself is a high degree of unity of image and logic. In four poems, the poet generally describes the image characteristics of Lushan Mountain, and accurately points out the reasons why it is irrelevant to see the mountain. Bright sensibility and clear reason are intertwined and mutually causal, so the image of poetry is sublimated into a typical image in the field of reason, which is why people regard the latter two sentences as philosophical epigrams for thousands of times.