Su Shi was a writer, poet, artist, calligrapher, pharmacologist, and one of the major poets of the Song era. His courtesy name was Zizhan and his pseudonym was Dongpo Jushi. Besides his renowned poetry, his other extant writings are of great value in the understanding of 11th century Chinese travel literature.
蘇軾，字子瞻，號(hào)東坡居士，文學(xué)家、詩人、書畫家、藥理學(xué)家。宋代大詩人之一。除了有詩作流傳于世，蘇軾的散文對(duì)理解中國(guó)11世紀(jì)的旅行文學(xué)有重要價(jià)值。

下面是蘇軾代表作之一，《水調(diào)歌頭·明月幾時(shí)有》：

丙辰中秋，歡飲達(dá)旦，大醉，作此篇，兼懷子由。
Mid-autumn of the Bing Chen year, having been drinking happily over night, I'm drunk, so I write this poem for memorising my brother, Zi You.

明月幾時(shí)有，把酒問青天。不知天上宮闕，今夕是何年。我欲乘風(fēng)歸去，又恐瓊樓玉宇，高處不勝寒。起舞弄清影，何似在人間。
Bright moon, when did you appear? Lifting my wine, I question the dark night sky. Tonight in the palaces and halls of heaven what year is it, I wonder? I would like to ride the wind, make my home there. Only I hide in a jade room of a beautiful mansion. As I could not bear the cold of high altitudes. So I rise and dance and play in your pure beams, this human world — how can it compare with yours?

轉(zhuǎn)朱閣，低綺戶，照無眠。不應(yīng)有恨，何事長(zhǎng)向別時(shí)圓？人有悲歡離合，月有陰晴圓缺，此事古難全。但愿人長(zhǎng)久，千里共嬋娟。
Circling red chambers, low in the curtained door, you shine on the sleepless. Surely you bear us no ill will —why then must you be so round at times when we humans are parted! People have their griefs and joys, their togetherness and separation. The moon has its dark and clear times, its waxings and wanings. Situations are never ideal since long ago. I only hope we two may have long long lives. So that we may share the moon's beauty even though we are a three hundred miles apart.