Su Shi
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Su Shi (蘇軾) (1037-1101), conosciuto anche come Su Dongpo (蘇東坡) fu uno dei più famosi poeti della Dinastia Song. Il suo nome di corte era Zizhan (子瞻).
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Su Shi era nato a Meishan, vicino alla Monte Emei,Sichuan. Anche suo fratello Su Che (蘇轍) e suo padre Su Xun (蘇洵) erano famosissimi intelletuali. Nel 1057, lui e suo fratello superarono gli esami municipali per il servizio civile e ottennero il titolo jinshi, una laurea necessaria per un posto di lavoro in governo in un'alta posizione.
he and his brother passed the municipal (highest-level) civil service examinations to attain the degree of jinshi, a prerequisite for high government office at that time. Throughout the next twenty years, he 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 was often at odds with a political faction headed by Wang Anshi. This faction's rise to power eventually resulted in Su Shi being exiled twice to remote places; first (1080-1084) to Huangzhou (now in Hubei province), and the second time (1094-1100) to Huizhou (now in Guangdong province) and Hainan island. The Dongpo Academy in Hainan was built on the site of his residence in exile. In Huangzhou, Su Shi lived at a farm called Dongpo ('Eastern Slope'), from which he took his literary pseudonym. He died in Changzhou, Jiangsu province.
