Study Of Su Shi's Letters

As the mirror of literati and officialdom and the model of scholars, Su Shi had been worshiped by emperors and common people for more than 900 years. By looking into his letters, it is not difficult to find out that as a literati and officialdom he had integrated the administering of Confucianism, the naturalness of Taoism and the mercy of the Buddhism and formed the detached and insightful feelings of life, which was embodied in his humorous and candid personality, broad mind and honor spirit of facing up to difficulties. At the same time, his letters were full of the thoughts of relieving the people, which were embodied in his zealousness of helping people, his political affirmations of civilization and harmoniousness and his administrative practices of helping people in difficulties. As an artist, Su Shi had such great accomplishments in poetry and prose that he can be called an all-sided litterateur. The quantity of his letters was so great and their quality was so high that they were without parallel in history, which had the significance of landmark in the development of poetry literature. From the perspective of expressing ways, The letters of Su Shi are beautiful and fluent, its style is watery and natural, its expression of sensibility is humorous and candid, its metaphors are appropriate and its linguistic art is concise and vivid and its creation of artistic conception is metonymical and poetic which promotes the individuation of poetry.. From the respect of image creation ,his letters are metaphorically created and poetically imdged. And from the aspect of stylistic characteristics ,his works are charactistic of pragmatics, openness and random. Therefore, all these characteristics of Su Shi's letters attribute to the development in the literary and possess the aesthetic value and have a great value to use for reference for both study and creation of literature.