Source: From Qian Chi Bi Fu.
Creation background: The Poem on a Thousand Cliffs was an essay written by Su Shi when he was relegated to Huangzhou (now Huanggang, Hubei) in the fifth year of Yuanfeng, Song Shenzong (1082). Later, I wrote an essay on the same topic, which was called "Qianchibi Fu". 10 15 wrote "Houchibi Fu".
About the author:
Su Shi (1037 65438+10.8-124.8), with the word Zi Zhan and the word He Zhong, was called "Dongpo Jushi" and "Ceng Gong" in the world, and was also called "the eight great masters of Tang and Song Dynasties" of the Han nationality. Famous essayist, painter, poet and gourmet in the Northern Song Dynasty. Su Shi is the second son of Su Xun (the eldest son of Su Xun), 1057 (the second year of Jiayou), and he is both a scholar with his brother Su Zhe. Su Shi, his father, Su Xun, and his younger brother, Su Zhe, are also called "Three Sus", and their father and son are listed as eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties. According to historical records, Su Shi was "more than eight feet three inches long and generous as the sea".
Su Shi was twenty-one when he was a scholar. During the Zongshen period, he worked in Fengxiang, Hangzhou, Mizhou, Xuzhou and Huzhou. 1080 (in the third year of Yuanfeng), Huangzhou was demoted as Yong Lian's assistant ambassador because of the Wutai Poetry Case. After more than four years in Huangzhou, he cultivated land in Dongpo, hence the name "Dongpo lay man" and was called "Su Dongpo". After Zhezong acceded to the throne, he successively served as a bachelor of Hanlin, a bachelor of attendance, and a minister of rites, and was well known in Hangzhou, Yingzhou, Yangzhou and Dingzhou. In his later years, he was banished to Huizhou and Danzhou. Amnesty returned to the north, died in Changzhou on the way, and was buried in jia county, Henan Province, chasing Wen Zhonggong.