Su Shi was a literary leader in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, and made great achievements in poetry, ci, writing, calligraphy and painting. His writing is arbitrary; His poems are broad in subject matter, fresh and healthy, good at exaggeration and metaphor, and unique in style. He is also called "Su Huang" with Huang Tingjian. His words are bold and unconstrained, and they are both bold and unconstrained representatives with Xin Qiji, and they are called "Su Xin"; His prose creation is rich and unrestrained, and he is also called "Ou Su" with Ouyang Xiu, and he is one of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties".
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1. Political character
In the late Northern Song Dynasty, the new party represented by Wang Anshi and the old party headed by Sima Guang were at loggerheads in the imperial court. Su Shi, on the other hand, can be outspoken from the perspective of social security, which embodies the political character of high morality and integrity. His greatest achievement was to dredge and renovate the West Lake during his tenure as a judge in Hangzhou, and to pile up the mud on the spot into a Su Causeway. It has not only benefited the people of Hangzhou, but also made Su Causeway one of the "Ten Scenes of West Lake".
2. Poetic achievements
Su Shi is the representative of the unrestrained poetry in Song Dynasty. He swept away the elegant style of writing since the Five Dynasties. His works are famous for their outstanding style, broad-minded optimism, sincere feelings and natural style. For example, Fu on the Red Wall, Fu on the Back of the Red Wall, When is the Bright Moon, and Nian Nujiao's No Return to the River. This is a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation.
3. Calligraphy attainments
Su Shi was the pioneer of "Shang Yi" calligraphy in Song Dynasty. His works are calm and profound, but they are chic in simplicity. In particular, his theory that "there is no fixed method for writing, and the space should be widened" has far-reaching influence on calligraphy. Representative works include Cold Food Post, Poems of Li Baixian, Two Debates Poems Post, Wu Dong Post and Zhiping Post.
4. The founder of food
Braised pork is an enduring delicacy invented by Su Shi. Because his meat is mellow and beautiful, fat but not greasy, it is also called "Dongpo meat". When he was exiled to Danzhou, Hainan, he was almost down and out, so he picked up the sheep spine abandoned by others, washed it with salt and burned it on the fire. As a result, it became a famous dish of Dongpo roast lamb loin. In addition, Dongpo fish, Dongpo tile and Dongpo cake were also highly praised.
5. Network language comes first.
During his stay in Danzhou, Su Shi wrote nearly 200 letters to his family, of which more than 70 used "Hehe". No matter what his mood was when he wrote these two words, they were dubbed as the precedent of online hot words by netizens today. (Don't take it seriously when teasing)
In a word, Su Shi is an outstanding representative with far-reaching influence in the history of China. Wang Anshi once commented on him: "I don't know that it will be more than a hundred years before this character will exist."
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Su Shi