Biography of Su Dongpo (Lin Yutang Commemorative Collection Hardcover Edition)

It is not difficult to understand someone who has been dead for a thousand years. Just think, it is usually not enough to understand the residents who live in the same city with us, or to understand the life of a mayor. To understand an ancient person, it is not sometimes possible.

Is it easy? To put it simply, for those who are still alive today, their lives have not yet ended. Once a crisis comes, no one knows how they will act. Drunkards will mend their ways; saints in the church will fall; priests will

A choir girl elopes... There are always many possible changes for a living person. Also, a living person always has some secrets, and the most exciting ones among his secrets are often revealed long after he is dead. This is why comments and

It is difficult to relate to one of our own contemporaries because his life is so close to our own. When it comes to a deceased poet such as Su Dongpo, the situation is different. I have read his notebooks, his seven hundred poems, and his eight hundred private books

simple. Therefore, knowing a person or not knowing a person has nothing to do with whether he is a contemporary. The main thing is whether you have a sympathetic understanding of him. At the end of the day, we can only know people we really know, and we can only get close to them

Get to know the people we truly love. I think I am close to knowing Su Dongpo because I understand him; I understand him because I like him. Which poet you like, getting close to him is a hobby. I think Li Bai is more noble and Du Fu is greater

——Greater in terms of the freshness, naturalness, craftsmanship, and compassionate emotions of his great poetry. But without any apology, with all due respect, my favorite poet is Su Dongpo.