In the five thousand years of Chinese civilization, there have been great poets, writers, and painters as vast as the galaxy, but the only mention of Su Dongpo always evokes a smile of affection and admiration in China.

In Lin Yutang's writings, Su Dongpo is an optimist with an unchangeable temperament, a sympathetic moralist, a good friend of the people of Li, a prose writer, a painter of the new school, a great calligrapher, an experimenter of winemaking, an opponent of false Taoism, and a practitioner of yoga. Cultivators are engineers, Buddhists, scholar-bureaucrats, emperor's secretaries...

  Su Dongpo never wrote the word "living law" in his life, but why can he become the master of the theory of "living law"?

What kind of "living" is Su Dongpo's "living method", and how does it reflect the background of Chinese culture?

Recently, Zeng Ming, vice president of the Chinese Society for Nationalities and a professor at Southwest University for Nationalities, accepted an exclusive interview with China News Agency "East and West Questions" to give an in-depth interpretation of this.

(Chen Xuanbin)

Responsible editor: [Li Ji]