Su Shi (蘇軾)

Su Shi (蘇軾)

Su Dongpo (蘇東坡)

Ancient calligrapher

Chinese calligrapher

Calligraphy master

Famous calligrapher

Song Dynasty (宋朝)

Su Shi (蘇軾) was known as a great scholar with an unstable career. Ever since he got falsely accused of Wutai Poem Incident (烏台詩案) and exiled to Huangzhou (黄州), he was left in poverty. That time, he experiences a turning point of his life, and he began his great compositions around that time.

Song Dynasty (宋朝)

1037-1101

Huang Tingjian (黃庭堅)

Mi Fu (米芾)

Chinese

Person

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Su Shi was born in Meishan, near Mount Emei today Sichuan province. Beginning in 1060 and throughout the following twenty years, Su held a variety of government positions throughout China; most notably in Hangzhou, where he was responsible for constructing a pedestrian causeway across the West Lake that still bears his name: sudi (蘇堤). He had served as a magistrate in Mi Prefecture, which is located in modern-day Zhucheng County of Shandong province. Later, when he was governor of Xuzhou, he wrote a memorial to the throne in 1078 complaining about the troubling economic conditions and potential for armed rebellion in Liguo Industrial Prefecture, where a large part of the Chinese iron industry was located. As a result for criticising the political situation, Su Shi was given his first remote trip of exile (1080–1086) to Huangzhou, Hubei. Then, Su was banished a second time (1094–1100) to Huizhou (now in Guangdong province) and Hainan island. After a long period of political exile, Su received a pardon in 1100 and was posted to Chengdu. However, he died in Changzhou, Jiangsu.

1037

Meishan (眉山), Sichuan (四川省)

1101

writer, poet, artist, calligrapher, pharmacologist, and statesman