Su Shi, courtesy name Zizhan and Hezhong, also known as Tieguan Taoist and Dongpo layman, was known as Su Dongpo and Su Xian in the world. [1-3] Han nationality, Meishan, Meizhou (now Meishan City, Sichuan Province) He was born in Luancheng, Hebei Province. He was a famous writer, calligrapher, gourmet and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, and a famous figure in water control in history.
Su Shi was a literary leader in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty and made great achievements in poetry, lyrics, prose, calligraphy, and painting. His writing is bold and unbridled; his poems are broad in subject matter, fresh and vigorous, good at using exaggerated metaphors, and unique in style. Together with Huang Tingjian, he is called "Su Huang"; His prose writings are grand and bold. Together with Ouyang Xiu, he is called "Ou Su" and is one of the "Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties".
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Su Shi’s views on society and thoughts on life are unabashedly expressed in his literary works, among which poetry is the most vivid and heartfelt. Among more than 2,700 Su poems, the themes of intervening in social reality and thinking about life are very prominent. Su Shi had an attitude of being "out of touch with the times" towards various unreasonable phenomena in social reality, and always regarded criticizing reality as an important theme of poetry.
What’s even more valuable is that Su Shi’s criticism of society is not limited to the New Deal, nor is it limited to the present. He criticizes the long-standing bad policies and bad habits in feudal society, reflecting a deeper criticism. consciousness.