Su Dongpo's Travel Records

Author: Nie Zuoping
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The Song Dynasty was silver, elegant. Those Song people who wandered between power struggles and poetry and wine culture are now very distant from us. Can modern people live self-sufficiently like the ancients? Can they meditate amidst the simplicity of life like Su Dongpo, even under the pressure of survival? Su Dongpo was a player of the Song Dynasty. Exploring his poetic and wine map and the journey of his loves and sorrows, we will find fascinating life dialogues in places where we cannot communicate. A sharp writer, talking about the grand scenery of life as a reader and an official, with strange and wonderful writing, composing large prose of traveling with beautiful women all over the world. An era full of modern and contemporary charm, great Song Ci accompanied the smoke and mist of the Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, countless cultural masters successively appeared under the sky of the Song Dynasty. Poetry and wine—poetry written with square characters and wine brewed from grains, these are the two most magical treasures of ancient China. The West also has poetry, the West also has wine, but Western poetry and wine can never be as integrated as the East, intertwined with each other. In Su Dongpo's poetic and wine map, he possessed a broader realm than the Great Song Dynasty. He is a distant symbol, a miracle that makes us never forget. The passionate splendor, the melancholic nostalgia—without loving life, it is hard to understand why Su Dongpo lived meticulously even in his most wretched days. He makes us believe that people are not born to be defeated.