He is Su Shi's younger brother and has an indissoluble bond with Taoism. What happened afterwards?

Taoism is a local sect in China. Since its birth, there have been countless believers, and the poet Li Bai has no doubt about it. He has repeatedly dragged Du Fu to seek immortality and dig fairy grass. Besides Li Bai, there is also a great scholar who also believes in Taoism. He is Su Zhe.

Su Zhe, one of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties, is his eldest brother. Su Zhe's Taoist belief has a great connection with Su Shi, but Su Zhe's Taoist belief is much more pious than Su Shi's, and his life has an indissoluble bond with Taoism.

Su Zhe's early religious beliefs were only influenced by his brother Su Shi, but soon he met a strange thing. Su Zhe was seriously ill and invited many famous doctors, but it was difficult to cure. Finally, a Taoist priest came and gave Su Zhe a prescription, and the medicine was cured. Taoist priests in ancient times basically studied some alchemy, and many principles of alchemy were the same as those of traditional Chinese medicine, so most powerful Taoist priests treated diseases very badly, and it was at this time that Su Zhe really began to believe in Taoism from the inside out.

From then on, Su Zhe began to study the Taoist classic Bao Puzi, and learned from it the technique of Huang Baizhu, namely the elixir, and with his own intelligence, he really practiced a furnace of elixir, which Su Zhe called the elixir. But in fact, there is no elixir in the world, and Su Zhe's elixir is just like Chinese medicine. A variety of materials are mixed together, which is helpful to cure diseases, but it is impossible to live forever.

"Sun Gong talk about nursery. Volume II records that Su Zhe later started an alchemy. Just about to make a fire, Su Zhe found a big cat suddenly appeared in the closed room. The cat was still standing on the stove and soon jumped into the stove and disappeared. Su Zhe immediately stopped making a fire. He thought it was a warning from God. This technology is so powerful that he is not the one who can pass it on. So he never mentioned it again, but he was complacent and thought he was jealous of talent.

Shortly after the blast, Su Zhe met another stranger and wrote a biography for him: The Beggar's Biography of Zhao Gong. At that time, Su Zhe met a beggar named Zhao Sheng in the street. He looked a little crazy like Ji Gong, but after talking to him carefully, Su Zhe found that Zhao Sheng was not simple, especially knowing Taoism very well. Because Su Shi also believes in Taoism, Su Zhe introduced Zhao Sheng to Su Shi. Zhao Sheng stayed with Su Shi in Huangzhou for more than half a year. Later, Su Shi returned to the north, and Zhao Sheng also went to Xingguo, where he was left behind by the local army (official position) Huayang.

Before long, Zhao Sheng was kicked to death by a mule, and Yang Hui buried him in the local area. When this matter reached Su Zhe's ears, he was deeply touched. A few years later, Su Zhe and Su Shi returned to Beijing and met an old friend named Fa. In exchange, Zhen Zhen told Su Zhe that he met a beggar in Yun 'an not long ago and asked him to send a message to say hello to Su Zhe.

Su Zhe didn't know who Fazhen was talking about at first, but after Fazhen described the beggar's appearance, Su Zhe was shocked. It turns out that this beggar is Zhao Sheng who was kicked to death by a mule before. At that time, there happened to be a Xingguo man and Su Zhe brothers present together. When he went back, he dug up Zhao Sheng's tomb and found that there was only a crutch in it, but it was empty. Su Zhe remembered this story in his later years and recorded it specially. One year, he was selected as a middle school entrance examination by a city. But think about it, Su Zhe may have exaggerated. Zhao Shengzhi does have it, but it is definitely not so magical. Su Zhe should only pin some admiration for Taoism on Zhao Sheng by artistic means.

Su Zhe often studied Taoist culture and wrote essays in his later life. For example, Su Zhe wrote "Lao Zi Jie" after deeply understanding Lao Zi, which combined many new ideas and traditional theories at that time, making the Tao Te Ching less boring and difficult to understand. After writing, Su Zhe specially showed it to Su Shi, who was full of praise.

But later generations of Zhu scoffed at Su Zhe's works and thought that Su Zhe insulted Confucianism, but this did not mean that Su Zhe's articles were not well written, but that their views were in conflict. Su Zhe used Taoism to unify Confucianism, while Zhu did the opposite.

In addition, Su Zhe wrote many poems related to Taoism. There are more than a dozen recorded poems such as Qing Ci and Lou Guan. But in this respect, Su Zhe's poems are far less than those of his brother Su Shi. Ding Fengbo, written by Su Shi under the influence of Taoism, is still a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation.