"A generation of Su Changgong was famous all over the world. He threw himself into desolation and forgot the years, and accumulated high city fortresses." Chen Shidao, the son of Su family, once used such a poem to summarize Su Shi's life.

Su Shi, also known as Zizhan and Hezhong, was also known as Tieguan Taoist and Dongpo layman. He was known as Su Dongpo in the world.

During the forty-two years of Song Renzong's reign, the Song Dynasty entered its peak. Although he suffered a disastrous defeat in foreign wars, internal and external troubles, and faced the crisis of national subjugation, in the eyes of most Song people, "Renzong's prosperous rule" far exceeded "Zhenguan's rule". "Government" and "Kaiyuan's prosperous age". Su Dongpo was born in this era that attracted countless literati and lofty ideals - the Northern Song Dynasty.

As a teenager, Su Shi received a formal and good artistic influence under the words and deeds of his father Su Xun. At the same time, he also endowed him with an unconventional, pioneering and enterprising spirit and a positive, optimistic, unrestrained and independent spirit. Awe-inspiring and upright.

Su Shi became famous as a young man with extraordinary words. He ranked second in the Ministry of Etiquette Examination and first in the 100-year-old Examination of the School of Business. Su Shi became famous all over the world with his exquisite literary thoughts and wonderful pen. But since ancient times, heroes have suffered many hardships. It is such a talented young man who is about to enter the officialdom and enter an official career. However, as a young man who achieved success and lacked life experience, he also revealed some frivolity:

"With a thousand words on the pen and thousands of volumes in the mind, how can this be difficult for Jun Yao and Shun?"

At this time, Su Shi was only in his twenties. He was young, energetic, talented, and became famous in one fell swoop. Even Song Renzong praised him. All of this made Su Shi full of hope and full of hope for his future. confidence.

However, the Northern Song Dynasty was overwhelmed by internal and external troubles, redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant expenses. After more than ten years of official ups and downs, Su Shi was inevitably involved in the political whirlpool.

At this time, the Northern Song Dynasty court was surrounded by social crises. Class contradictions, ethnic contradictions and internal contradictions of the ruling class were intertwined. The country was getting weaker and weaker. Therefore, it was necessary to implement political reforms and reverse the situation of poverty and weakness. Many knowledgeable people at that time had the same view. In 1069 AD, Wang Anshi was appointed prime minister by Song Shenzong to preside over reforms.

As soon as the reform started, there was a fierce debate. At the court, the new party that advocated reform and the old party that opposed the reform started a political dispute. Su Shi, who had just embarked on his official career, was not I strongly agreed with Wang Anshi's reforms, so I inevitably fell into the whirlpool of this political struggle.

The conflicts between Su and Wang were difficult to reconcile because of the different Taoist views. Faced with this situation, although Emperor Shenzong cherished Su Shi’s talent and learning, he could only endure the pain in order to realize his reform ideas. Cut off love and let Su Shi go to a local official.

After all, politics is not about making articles. The rhetoric in articles often cannot withstand the light blow of real life. The Wutai Poetry Case made Su Dongpo realize that he was too naive and too simple to cope with the extremely complex personnel struggles in the officialdom. From this, Su Dongpo became disillusioned with his official career and naturally tended to Buddhism and Taoism.

In 1080 AD, due to the "Wutai Poetry Case", Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou and demoted to deputy envoy of Huangzhou Tuanlian. This position is quite humble and has no real power. After this battle, Su Shi was politically frustrated, frustrated in his official career, and depressed in life. He had become completely disillusioned.

After Su Shi took office, he felt depressed. In order to relieve his inner sorrow, in addition to worshiping Buddha and practicing meditation, he would go to Chibijitou to enjoy the natural scenery, swim in the Yangtze River scenery, the beautiful moonlit night, and go boating on the river. Influenced by Buddhist and Taoist thoughts, enlightened by the nature of heaven and earth, and thoughtful about historical figures, Su Shi began to gradually get out of the haze of his soul.

After that, Su Shi wrote this famous poem that shocked the ancient and modern times - "Red Cliff Ode". He expressed a sigh about life by paying tribute to the rise and fall of the ancients, which showed that the author did not suffer political persecution. Instead of a sluggish and depressed will, he is free and easy, with a proud and independent mentality and an optimistic and broad-minded mind.

Only the cool breeze on the river and the bright moon in the mountains can be heard by the ears and become colors by the eyes. This is the infinite treasure of the Creator, and it is the perfect place for me and my son.

"The small boat passed away from now on, and the rest of my life was left in the river and sea." This poem was written by Su Shi in "Linjiang Immortal" after he was exiled to Huangzhou. At this time, after being baptized by the Wutai Poetry Case, Su Shi had become ideologically connected with Lao and Zhuang. The superhuman broad-mindedness and indifference shown in this poem are the expression of Su Shi's true feelings. It does not read at all. Pretentious.

There is less anger and more coldness in the words; less heroic and more ethereal. And this kind of tranquility and emptiness is exactly the normal state of mind of people in daily life. Returning from madness to normalcy represents Su Shi's emotional maturity and rational return.

"Don't listen to the sound of beating leaves through the forest, why not whistling and walking slowly. The bamboo stick and mango shoes are lighter than the horse. Who is afraid? You can live your whole life in the misty rain."

At this time Su Shi was demoted to Lingnan. Although he was in a harsh environment, he still remained optimistic and open-minded. It can be said that at this time, Su Shi's perspective was more unique, his writing was more detached, and his artistic conception was more ethereal.

I think back then, the seventeen-year-old Wang Fu married the nineteen-year-old Su Shi. Needless to say, the young couple had a deep love for each other. What was even more rare was that Wang Fu had a pure heart and a worldly world. The luckiest thing is to meet you, and the most valuable thing is that we have the same understanding of each other. At this time, the young scholar is in full swing and the girl is in her prime.

At that time, the two of them were both young and in perfect condition, nestled in each other's world, as if they could hold each other's hands and grow old together with them for the rest of their lives. However, a sudden illness took away Wang Fu's young life. At that time, Su Shi was twenty-nine years old. He was famous for his outstanding literary talent and became famous all over the world.

At the age of twenty-seven, Wang Fu was in the best years of his life. But fate played a cruel joke on them, and the loving couple eventually became strangers. People who love each other cannot stay together forever. The more tender and affectionate they are when they are alive, the more heartbroken they will be after separation.

It has been ten years since Wang Fu passed away, but Su Shi could never forget that smart woman. So when Su Shi was in Mizhou, he dreamed of his deceased wife, and the past suddenly came to his heart, and the long-held emotions undercurrent, Reminiscing about the past, he wrote "Ten years of life and death are boundless, without thinking, and unforgettable." This is a mourning poem that has been passed down through the ages.

In Su Shi's final work "Guan Tide", he wrote all his life insights and saw through the three realms of life. The landscapes in the poem are the various obsessions in the hearts of the world. For Su Shi, this obsession was the ambition to "hold the eagle's bow like a full moon, look northwest, and shoot at the wolf." At the end of his life, Dongpo finally Still see through it.

Su Shi's life was unrestrained and optimistic, bohemian and cynical, but he was not immune to frustration, desolation, desolation and depression. He is profound but not free from frivolity, does not stick to clichés in his dealings with the world, and is naturally elegant when writing.

Su Shi’s life experiences are ultimately the expression of his nature. He knew that life was a momentary manifestation of something, a form of the eternal spirit existing in a body for a moment, but he refused to accept the idea that life was a burden and suffering - he thought that was not necessarily the case.

Su Shi developed his mixed outlook on life from his spiritual insights. The longest life span is only thirty-six thousand days, but that is already long enough. Even if his search for the elixir of immortality turns out to be in vain, every moment of life is wonderful as long as it lasts.

Although his body will die, his spirit will become stars in the sky and rivers on the ground in the next life, shining brightly, nourishing and nourishing, thus sustaining all living things.

Everywhere in life is similar, it should be like a flying dragon stepping on slush. Su Shi, he spent his life turning other people's rough lives into unrestrained.