Su Shi (1037 ——11), the word Zizhan, is a Dongpo layman. In the second year of Jiayou (1057), he joined the imperial examination in the Secret Pavilion with his younger brother Su Zhe, and served as the minister of the Ministry of War and the minister of rites in the third class (Song Dynasty), and successively served as local officials in Fengxiang, Hangzhou, Mizhou, Huzhou, Xuzhou, Yingzhou, Dengzhou, Yangzhou and Dingzhou. He developed production, rescued floods, suppressed strongmen, rectified military discipline, and benefited the future generations with his outstanding achievements, making them shine in the history books. Where Su Shi became an official and lived, future generations may be able to stand.
Politically, Su Shi opposed both Wang Anshi's "radical reform" and Sima Guang's "abolishing the new law". Caught between the old and new parties, Su Shi suffered many blows and twists and turns in his life. However, he was broad-minded, adaptable, patriotic and fond of his hometown, stubborn and bold, optimistic and open-minded about life and actively pursued it until his death. His spirit still affects our endless cultural creation and inheritance.
Su Shi is a rare and versatile writer in the history of China literature. His prose is the highest achievement of the ancient prose movement in the Northern Song Dynasty. The history of poetry is called "Su Shi", which represents the highest level of Song poetry. Ci is called "Su Ci", which created China's bold and unconstrained ci style; He created a new generation of prose; Created a precedent for prose in Ming and Qing dynasties; His calligraphy created a style of "respecting meaning", which was called "Perilla" in history, ranking first among the four great calligraphers in the Song Dynasty. He is the founder of China's "Literati Painting". His famous painting theories, such as "having a clear plan" and "being like a spirit", have influenced artists from generation to generation. He also has a large number of works in the fields of water conservancy, medicine, music, health care and so on, with a wide range of creations. Su's influence has already crossed time and space and become an outstanding representative of China literati.
In his later years, Su Shi was demoted to Huizhou, Guangdong and Danzhou, Hainan (now Dan County, Hainan Province). He was pardoned and returned to the North for three years, died in Changzhou, and was buried in Xiao Emei Mountain in jia county, Henan Province, and later "Wen Zhonggong" in posthumous title.
Su Zhe (1039 ——112), whose name is Yingbin, is an old man. Su Shi's younger brother, at the age of 19, was a scholar from the same school as his older brother, with a fourth-class career strategy. He is a bachelor of Hanlin, a patent scholar in Zhi Zhi, a minister of Shang Youcheng and an assistant minister. He was buried in the same place as my brother, and was later named "Wen" by posthumous title. He is knowledgeable and has many works, including Luan Jicheng, Luan Cheng Continued, and Luan Cheng Postscript. And "Wang Bo" is his literary style.