His song "300 lychees a day, I don't hesitate to be a Lingnan person", which is well known to women and children, is enough to prove Dongpo's unrestrained eating and drinking style. Everyone knows that litchi is good, its appearance is crystal clear, and its taste is moist and silky, especially the waxy taste after refrigeration, which is really a strong temptation. But litchi is particularly easy to get angry, and it is easy for ordinary people to eat a catty and a half a day. What is the concept of eating 300 lychees a day? Does Dongpo layman get up in the middle of the night and secretly have a nosebleed? If nothing else, with this momentum, we have to admire Dongpo's tough and heroic eating.
In the sixth year of Song Renzong Jiayou (106 1), Su Shi was appointed as the book signing judge of Fengxiang Prefecture. He came to Fengxiang from Sichuan, where the river is clear and the scenery is beautiful. When he saw that there were "mountains as bald as mountains, water as turbid as lakes", drought, little rain and rolling loess, coupled with the war-torn disaster, he was forced to serve.
He visited local celebrities all over the world to find ways to manage them. By chance, he found a drinking pool in the southeast of Fengxiang county, and immediately went downstream and found the water source. After consulting with Fengxiang magistrate, he organized manpower to dig the spring eye "Phoenix Spring" to lead to a clear canal, and dug a pond on the old site of ancient drinking Fengchi to build a reservoir, namely East Lake, which not only watered the surrounding fertile fields, but also provided people with fun.
When the new political reform party collapsed, Sima Guang, Wang Anshi's arch-rival, gained the upper hand, and Su Dongpo also ushered in a short political golden age. After returning to Kyoto, in just eight months, he rose to the third level, became a bachelor of Hanlin, a top official, drafted letters for the emperor, and was close to the core of power. However, he was disappointed to find that after the old party replaced the new party, it was nothing more than birds of a feather, divided between parties, corrupt and degenerate, and regarded people's lives as dirt. He rushed to appeal and repeatedly appealed, but to no avail, he was falsely accused and framed. He was caught in a dilemma: he could neither tolerate the new party nor forgive the old one. In desperation, he once again asked for a diversion and went to Hangzhou, where everyone supported him and built the "Su Causeway" that benefited Hangzhou for thousands of years. But the better his reputation, the more jealous the young people in the court are. He left Hangzhou and went to Yangzhou to be an official. Soon bad luck came again: the queen mother died, the little emperor came to power, and the new party came to power again. Su Dongpo was first demoted to Ningyuan, and then to Huizhou, which was farther and farther away from the center. By the age of 62, he was actually exiled to Danzhou, Hainan Island. In the Song Dynasty, banishing Hainan was only a lighter punishment than the crime of beheading property.
Su Dongpo is famous for his many friends. He met many villains in his life, but he also made more friends. He lost his temper with the villain and expressed his anger, but he never hated anyone in his life. When he was young, he had a friend named Zhang Dun, who later became his enemy. He laid hands on him very hard and tried to kill Su Dongpo. Su Dongpo was exiled to Hainan in his later years, thanks to him. When he was old, he finally came back across the ocean, but Zhang Dun was demoted to Hainan. The Zhang family was afraid that Su Dongpo would "deal with a man as he deals with you" and threw him before the emperor. However, when Su Dongpo wrote back to Zhang Dun's eldest son Bird, he still called Zhang Dun the prime minister. This letter is very touching: "Shi and the Prime Minister have been friends for more than 40 years. Although the intermediate sources are slightly different, friendship is decreasing instead of increasing ... "