Who is Su Shi's poem "Pear Tree over Begonia" addressed to?

A Pear Blossom Beats a Begonia is a teasing work written by Su Shi, a poet in the Song Dynasty, to his friend Zhang Xian. This poem is a seven-character quatrain. The original work is: eighteen brides and eighty lang, with gray hair and red makeup. Two nights of mandarin duck quilt, pear tree pressing begonia. The background of this poem is that Zhang Xian married a 18-year-old concubine when he was nearly 80 years old, so Su Shi wrote this poem to mock Zhang Xian's concubinage in his later years.

Extended reading

Su Shi was a literary leader in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, and made great achievements in poetry, ci, writing, calligraphy and painting.

His writing is arbitrary; His poems are broad in subject matter, fresh and healthy, good at exaggeration and metaphor, and unique in style. He is also called "Su Huang" with Huang Tingjian. His words are bold and unconstrained, and he is the representative of bold and unconstrained with Xin Qiji, and he is called "Su Xin; His prose creation is rich and unrestrained, and he is also called "Ou Su" with Ouyang Xiu, and he is one of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties".

Su Shi is also good at books and is one of the "Song Sijia"; He is good at painting, especially at ink bamboo, strange stones and dead wood. There are seven episodes of Dongpo, Yi Zhuan of Dongpo and Yuefu of Dongpo.