Abstract During his exile in Huangzhou, Su Shi was ″in deep thought of Yi″. With a practical purpose he finished Su Shi Yizhuan which largely influenced his Huangzhou Ci creation based on his practical mentality. In his whole life, Su Shi followed the doctrine of ″self-improvement″ and ″helping others″, with different emphasis in different periods. Before the Wutai Poetry Case, Su Shi involved himself in political activities to serve the people, contribute to the society, improve his self-morality, realize his own value, and integrate the doctrine of ″self-improvement″ and ″helping others″ into political practices. After the Wutai Poetry Case, he focused on self-improvement in distress and hardship in Huangzhou. In the self-examination of the practical activities of ″helping others″, he managed to solve the problem of how to settle down himself in the predicament of ″dissonance of life and ambition″ starting from ″mind elevation″, and to improve his personality of self-sufficiency, innate firmness and outside softness in the renewal process of ″self-determination″, ″righteousness and broad-mindedness″, thus completing the transformation of his life in the Huangzhou period. Su Shi's spirit and personality existed not only as an ideological form in the level of Yi-ology, but also as a practical form in his exile life, which was transformed into an internal motive of his creation of Huangzhou Ci and the basic elements of expressing his feelings and aspirations. Many of Su Shi's Huangzhou poems are directly based on his Yizhuan, turning the ″unintentional″ thought into art and creating a brand-new Ci conception with unique connotations and perfect senses, especially through the images of ″drunkenness″, ″dream″, ″boat″, etc. This artistic conception showed a kind of mild and firm spiritual strength acquired from the life attitude of his resting mind and self-contentment after he got out of the period of turmoil and predicaments and experienced the process of self-renewal. When Su Shi entered the real world with this spiritual force and described his life experience in his poems, his Huangzhou Ci vividly displayed the affinity of the real world and the spiritual beauty of life in a rational and harmonious way, and created the daily artistic conception of ″the chastity of life″ and a refreshing style of Ci, thus establishing the Ci of scholar bureaucrat in the history of Ci in the Tang and Song Dynasties.
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