When Su Shi was the prefect of Qiantang, a citizen came to complain that the fan seller owed him 21,111 pieces of silver, so he arrested the fan seller. The fan seller said sadly, "It rained for a long time, and the weather has been freezing, so it's not that I can't sell fans." Su Shi told him to bring twenty fans, and then he picked up the brush used on the table to write running script and cursive script at will, and drew dead wood and bamboo stones and delivered them to him. Just after going out, people actually bought a fan with 1111 yuan, and all the fans that could not be sold were sold out. Later, the fan seller also paid off all the money he owed.

Original text:

Dongpo is punctual for Qiantang, and the people complained that the fan owner was in debt of 21,111 yuan. When he was caught, he said, "It's raining for a long time and it's cold, so if you don't sell a fan, you have to pay for it." When the public order is to fan for twenty times, it is judged that the pen can be used to make lines, grass, dead wood and bamboo stones at will. Just go out, people actually take a fan for thousands of dollars and hold it. I was informed of the compensation.

this article comes from the expanded materials of the anecdote of Dongpo by Su Shi in Song Dynasty.

Writing background:

The anecdote of Dongpo gives full play to its own strengths and uses its own abilities to help people in need. Learn to be flexible. In the second year of Jiayou (1157), he was a scholar. In addition to the Chinese book Sheren, Hanlin Bachelor, Duanming Temple Bachelor, and the history of the Ministry of Rites. He has been sentenced to Hangzhou, Zhimizhou, Xuzhou, Huzhou and Yingzhou. In the third year of Yuanfeng (1181), Huangzhou was demoted by the new libel law. Later, he was relegated to Huizhou and Danzhou. Song Huizong, forgive. Died in Changzhou. Chasing Wen Zhong. He is knowledgeable and versatile, good at writing, engineering poetry and calligraphy.

Yu Ci is "bold and unconstrained, and doesn't like cutting to follow the rhythm", with rich themes and broad artistic conception. It breaks through the traditional barrier of "Ci is a colorful subject" since the late Tang and Five Dynasties and the early Song Dynasty, and takes poetry as Ci, creating a bold and broad school, which has a great influence on later generations. There are seven episodes of Dongpo, Dongpo Ci, Dongpo Yi Zhuan, Dongpo Yuefu and so on.

Su Shi was born in Meishan, Yu Mei, on December 19th (October 8th, 1137), the third year of Jing You in Song Renzong, after Su Weidao, the minister of the early Tang Dynasty. Su Shi's father, Su Xun, is the "Su Laoquan" mentioned in San Zi Jing. Su Xun worked hard, though late. Su Shi's name "Shi" originally meant the handrail in front of the car, which means it is indispensable to help the poor from obscurity. In the eighth year of Qingli (1148), Su Xun closed his door to study because of his father's loss, and taught his knowledge and conduct to Su Shi and his youngest son Su Zhe.