Biography of Su Dongpo

It is the pioneering and exemplary work of modern Chinese long-form biographies. Su Dongpo was a hopeless optimist, a great humanitarian, a friend of the people, a great writer, a great calligrapher, an innovative painter, a wine-making experimenter, an engineer, a person who hated Puritanism, a yogi Buddhist, a great Confucian politician, an emperor's secretary, a wine master, a kind judge, and a political naysayer. A moonlit night prowler, a poet, a clown. But this is not enough to tell all about Su Dongpo... Su Dongpo has more of the richness, variety and humor of a multifaceted genius than other Chinese poets. He has excellent intelligence, but his heart is like an innocent child-this mixture is equivalent to what Jesus called the wisdom of the snake plus the gentleness of the dove. Knowing a person or not knowing a person has nothing to do with whether he is a contemporary. The main thing is to understand whether he has sympathy or not. Ultimately, we can only know someone we really know, and we can only fully understand someone we really like. I think I know Su Dongpo perfectly because I know him. I know him because I like him.