"It's better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo." The whole poem from the Song Dynasty's "Imperial Monk Land" by Su Shi is: Eating without meat is better than living without bamboo. No meat makes people thin, no bamboo makes people vulgar. People are thin and fat, but most people are incurable. Others scoff at this, so high that they are stupid. If you still munch on this gentleman, how can there be Yangzhou cranes in the world?
There can be no meat in the rice, but there must be no bamboo in the house. No meat makes people thin, no bamboo makes people vulgar. It seems lofty and crazy that others laugh at me. If you can go to Zhu Jun, how can there be Yangzhou cranes in the world?
The life of the character
Su Shi, also known as Su Dongpo and Su Xian, was a writer, calligrapher and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the second year of Jiayou (1057), Su Shi was a scholar. Song Shenzong worked in Fengxiang, Hangzhou, Mizhou, Xuzhou and Huzhou. In the third year of Yuanfeng (1080), he was demoted to be the permanent assistant ambassador of Huangzhou because of Wutai poetry case.
Later, he served as a bachelor of Hanlin, a bachelor of attendance, and a minister of rites, and was famous in Hangzhou, Yingzhou, Yangzhou and Dingzhou. In his later years, he was exiled to Huizhou and Danzhou because of the ruling of the New Party. Song Huizong was granted amnesty and returned to the north, where he died. Song Gaozong posthumously awarded a surname; Song Xiaozong pursues "Wen Zhong".
Su Shi was a literary leader in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, and made great achievements in poetry, ci, writing, calligraphy and painting. Poetry has a broad theme, fresh and healthy, and is also called "Su Huang" with Huang Tingjian; Ci is an uninhibited school, and Xin Qiji is the representative of the uninhibited school, also known as "Su Xin"; Prose creation is rich, and Ouyang Xiu, also known as "Ou Su", is one of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties".