Su Shi lived in a "collective dormitory" because of the exam, and often visited Huang Tingjian's room to do what?

The longest record of Su Shi Huang Tingjian working together day and night was 44 days, from the end of the first month of the third year of the Yuan Dynasty (1088) to the beginning of March, thanks to the Northern Song Dynasty tribute to the lock court system, in that year Su Shi presided over the ceremonial tribute examination, Huang Tingjian was the counselor, responsible for propositions, reading papers, and recruitment checks, and Qin Guan, Chao Zhizhi, Li Gonglin and others were the inspection examination papers. In order to prevent fraud in the examination, the examiners locked themselves in the gongyuan early, prepared questions, collected the test papers, arranged the seat map of the lifters, and chose the day to start the examination, until the end of the examination, the order was set, and the examination official was discharged. During this period, it is the stage of hospital locking (short as one month, long as two months). The examiners were not allowed to go back to their homes, were not allowed to meet relatives and friends, were not allowed to interact with officials outside the hospital, and the scholars and doctors were wide-eyed and small-eyed, and after work, they wrote and painted, chanted and sang, and dispelled loneliness. The stars surrounded Su Shi, the leader of the literary world and the head of the "Four Houses of the Song Dynasty", and turned the boring and boring work into a grand gathering of poetry and books: Li Gonglin painted, everyone inscribed poems, poetry and painting, calligraphy was also a means of rejuvenation.

During the locking of the courtyard, Su Shi visited Huang Tingjian's room every time, encountered a book boom, saw that there was paper on the table, no matter whether the quality was good or bad, spread out and wrote, all written before stopping. Sometimes after drinking a little wine, he was drunk after a few glasses, and he didn't care, lying down, and immediately sounded a thunderous snoring sound, "Shao Yan woke up, and the pen fell like wind and rain." Su Shi liked to write to others, and he also liked to draw, he once went to the Shuchi Temple, painted a small mountain of dead wood on the wall of the Huangtingjian Shuzhai, and the "lost brother" made "Inscription Zi Zhan Temple Wall": "Hai Nei article is not a painter, can write back to make dead branches." Yu Zhang has liang dong since childhood, and also looks like Zheng Gong's double sideburns", praising him for his famous articles, although he is not a professional painter, the dead branches he paints also have excellent pen power.

"Raspberry Thesis", Song, Su Shi, on paper, xingshu, length 27.7 cm, width 44.8 cm, now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.

Compared with painting, Su Shi's calligraphy is more famous, he started from Wang Xizhi's father and son calligraphy, and then learned from the Tang Dynasty families: Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Xu Hao, Li Yong, Yang Ningshi, accumulated over the years into his own style, for the changes in Su Shi's calligraphy, Huang Tingjian has always paid close attention to it with the eyes of an expert, and his summary is in place:

The people of Dongpo Dao learned "Lanting" when they were young, so their book posture was similar to Xu Jihai (Hao). To drunkenness and debauchery, forgetting to work clumsily, the word is particularly thin, it is like Liu Chenghang (public power). The middle-aged Xi learned the books of Yan Lugong (Zhenqing) and Yang Fengzi (condensed), and their combination did not reduce Li Beihai (邕). As for the round and rhymed victory of the pen, the article is wonderful, the loyalty runs through the sun and the moon, and the good book of this dynasty is the first.

Su Shi admired Xiao San's simple and distant style of writing, "the magic is outside the strokes", and did not like the Works of the Tang Dynasty's "Strict Law", in other words, he no longer regarded calligraphy as a simple writing, but an art that exposed his personal style, and it was not important to be unruly. He said, "I can't make a book, and I can't ask for it with my hands", and the letter is straight and straight, randomly dyed, seemingly effortless, but in fact, it is based on hard practice. Later generations said that Dongpo calligraphy was not easy to learn, because it "came up with new ideas and did not practice the ancients", so Dongpo was very confident in his calligraphy. Once, in order to try on the pen, Su Shi wrote a picture on rough hehoo paper. He joked that this kind of paper, which was only made into hades for the sacrifice of ghosts, was worth a hundred gold five hundred years later because he had written it. Why wait until five hundred years later, when he was alive, calligraphy and paintings have been cherished by the people of the time, during the Yuan Dynasty he served in the Hanlin Academy, followed by many people who picked up calligraphy and paintings, "so his stick figures, only to fall into his hands and hide for people", the palace marshal Yao Linxu in order to get Su Shi Mo Bao, did not hesitate to exchange with Su Shi's colleague Han Zongru with more than ten pounds of mutton, Han Zongru liked to eat mutton the most, when his mouth was hungry, he exchanged a few books with Su Shi, of course, not every time he could get his hands on it, catching up with Su Shi who had no time to create overtime, and Had to give up, Dongpo also ridiculed him for "breaking the slaughter today". Huang Tingjian heard about this and quipped to Su Shi, he had only heard that Wang Xizhi's words could be exchanged for geese, and now Mr. Xizhi's words could be changed for sheep!

After staying by Su Shi's side for a long time, Huang Tingjian summed up a set of techniques for begging for Su zi. The Dongpo resident does not hesitate to write, but the beggar must have skills, such as poor paper and ink, or specify the size of the book, or the text of the book is indecent, and he will definitely refuse. The atmosphere of the writing environment is very important, I heard that Su Shi was going to visit the home of his friend Wang Li, Huang instructed the king to let him prepare pen and ink paper in a cool place to vote for Su Shi's favor. The paper and pen are excellent, the ink is thick, he will be happy to write a few strokes, if there is good wine and good food, it is better to prepare. It is also necessary to grasp the timing, and when Su Shi is idle, he does not have to prepare so much, and "sit back and enjoy his success". Su Shi sat idly in the Hanlin Courtyard one day, according to two Tao Yuanming poems, "Ping Domain And Distant Winds, Good Seedlings are Also Nostalgic", and created seven or eight works, including line book editions, cursive editions, and calligraphy editions, with large and small fonts, after writing, he threw the pen, sighed a few times, patted his ass and left, and left the banners for the lucky people who worked with him left and right. In the summer of the seventh year of the Yuan Dynasty (1092), Su Shi was summoned back to Beijing from Yangzhou and passed through Yongqiu (雍丘, in modern Qixian County, Henan), where a banquet was held at Mifu in Yongqiu Zhi County. Only to see that there were two long tables in the house, there were good pens, ink and 300 pieces of paper on the table, wine and dishes were put aside, Su Shi laughed after seeing it, which is to eat, to write with old friends. After the two sat down, every time the others poured wine, they spread out the paper to write, the two book children specialized in grinding ink, almost could not provide, until dusk, drank enough wine, the paper was also written, exchanged works with each other, "they thought that the books on weekdays were beyond their reach", both of them thought that this was the highest level played.