A famous writer, calligrapher, gourmet and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, and a famous figure in water control in history.

Su Shi (January 8, 1037 - August 24, 1101), courtesy name Zizhan and Hezhong, also known as Tieguan Taoist and Dongpo layman, was known as Su Dongpo and Su Xian in the world, Han nationality, eyebrow A native of Meishan, Zhouzhou (now Meishan City, Sichuan Province), his ancestral home is Luancheng, Hebei. Li Zhimin, a professor at Peking University and the founder of the introduction of monuments into grass, commented: "Su Shi is an all-round artistic master."

Su Shi was a leader in the literary world in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty. He was famous in poetry, lyrics, prose, calligraphy, and painting. Achieve high achievements. His writing is bold and unbridled; his poems are broad in subject matter, fresh and vigorous, good at using exaggerated metaphors, and have a unique style. Together with Huang Tingjian, he is called "Su Huang";

His prose writings are grand and bold, and he is known as "Ou Su" together with Ouyang Xiu, and is one of the "Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties". Su Shi was good at calligraphy and one of the "Four Masters of the Song Dynasty"; he was good at literati painting, especially ink bamboo, strange rocks, dead wood, etc.

His works include "Seven Collections of Dongpo", "Yi Zhuan of Dongpo", "Dongpo Yuefu", "Xiaoxiang Bamboo and Stone Picture Scroll", "Dry Wood and Strange Stone Picture Scroll", etc.