Mr. Dongpo wrote countless poems and made various kinds of delicious food. Answer: to eat.

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Su Shi, whose word Zi Zhan is also called He Zhong, is known as Tieguan Taoist and Dongpo layman, and is known as Su Dongpo, Su Xian and Po Xian in the world. Meishan, Meizhou, a native of Luancheng, Hebei Province, was a writer, calligrapher and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, and a famous person in historical water control. Father is Su Xun, brother is Su Zhe, and father and son are called Sansu.

A gourmet

Su Shi himself is a gourmet, and there are many records of Su Shi's invention of food in Song Dynasty's note novels. When Su Shi knew Hangzhou, during May and June of Yuanyou five years, there was heavy rain in western Zhejiang and Taihu Lake flooded. Su Shi directed the dredging of the West Lake and the construction of Su Causeway. People in Hangzhou thanked him. During the Chinese New Year, everyone carries pigs and drinks to pay New Year greetings to him. Su Shi instructed his family to cut pork into cubes, burn it red and crisp, and then give it to everyone. This is the origin of Dongpo meat.

Buddhist and Zen karma

Su Shi's name is Dongpo Jushi, and he used this name in many poems, and he wrote Buddhist and Zen poems almost throughout his life. At that time, the prevalence of Zen thought coincided with Su Shi's political frustration and his departure from the imperial court. Therefore, Su Shi consciously accepted Buddhism and Zen thoughts and integrated them into his own poetry creation.

Not only that, Zen also had a great influence on the ideological content of Su Shi's poems, which made Su Shi have a deeper spiritual realm and a more free and easy life feeling. In the process of studying Buddhism, Su Shi mainly absorbed Hua Yanzong's cosmology of "harmony without hindrance" and the epiphany theory of Zen Buddhism, which formed an empty and mellow cosmology and outlook on life.

During his stay in Huangzhou, Su Shi often interacted with Zen Master Fo Yin, the abbot of Jinshan Temple. One day, Su Shi wrote a poem, "Looking at the sky, the light is shining, and the eight winds can't blow, sitting on the purple lotus" and presented it to Fo Yin. The Zen master immediately approved the word "fart" and asked the extremely young man to bring it back. Dongpo was furious when he saw this, and immediately asked the Zen master to cross the river. The Zen master laughed: Bachelor, Bachelor, aren't you' the eight winds can't blow'? Why did you cross the river with another fart?

the eight winds can't be blown, which can be found in the fifth volume of Buddhist Classic, and it is also found in Hanshan's poems. The eight winds are Buddhist terms and refer to the winds in eight realms: weighing, ridiculing, destroying, fame, benefiting, declining, suffering and happiness.

At the last moment of Su Shi's life, Wei Lin, a monk friend, accompanied him, which shows the comfort of Zen Buddhism to his life. In the last poem "Answering Elder Jing Shan Lin", he wrote: Both Jun and Bing Zi have been together for 31,111 days. A thousand miles a day, electricity goes there. Great misfortune has a body, and without it, there is no disease. Laugh at Roche all my life, and the magic spell really waves out.

There is not only the Zen debate in the Diamond Sutra that life is disease-free, but also the detachment from the pain of birth, old age, illness and death, which is also the expression of Su Shi's thought to the extreme.