The last poem Su Shi wrote before his death was "Mountain Lushan Misty Rain in Zhejiang Tide".

Original text:

The mist and rain in Lushan Mountain and the tide in Zhejiang, I can’t help but regret it before it arrives. Nothing happened when I arrived, Lushan Mountain was misty and rainy, and Zhejiang was in full swing.

Interpretation:

The misty rain in Lushan Mountain and the tide in Qiantang River are both worth watching. If you don't have the opportunity to feast your eyes on it, you will regret it for the rest of your life. I finally saw the scenery of Mount Lushan and Zhejiang with my own eyes, but I found that the impulsive and delusional thoughts in the past were nothing more than this. I just felt that the mist and rain in Mount Lushan were the mist and rain in Mount Lushan, and the tide in Zhejiang was the tide in Zhejiang.

Knowledge expansion:

Su Shi (1037-1101), also known as Zizhan and Hezhong, also known as Tieguan Taoist and Dongpo layman, was known as Su Dongpo and Su Xian in the world. , Po Xian. A native of Meishan, Meizhou (now part of Meishan City, Sichuan Province), his ancestral home is Luancheng, Hebei Province. He was a writer, calligrapher and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, and a famous figure in water control in history. His father is Su Xun and his younger brother is Su Zhe. The father and son are collectively known as "Three Su".

Su Shi was a leader in the literary world in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty. He made high achievements in poetry, lyrics, prose, calligraphy, and painting. His poems have broad themes, are fresh and bold, are good at using exaggerated metaphors, and have a unique style. Together with Huang Tingjian, they are called "Su Huang"; His writings are grand and rich, unbridled and unrestrained, and he is called "Ou Su" together with Ouyang Xiu.

Together with Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Ouyang Xiu, Su Xun, Su Che, Wang Anshi and Zeng Gong, he is known as the "Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties"; he is good at calligraphy, and together with Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu and Cai Xiang, he is known as the "Four Masters of the Song Dynasty" "; Good at literati paintings, especially ink bamboo, strange rocks, dead wood, etc. His works include "Seven Collections of Dongpo", "Yi Zhuan of Dongpo", "Dongpo Yuefu", "Han Shi Tie", "Xiaoxiang Bamboo and Stone Pictures", "Dry Trees and Strange Rocks", etc.

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.