Today he is seen as a mild-mannered fellow, a great humanitarian, an incurable optimist, a formidable man of letters, a master calligrapher, an epicure, an experimenter in wine making, a Buddhist, a poet .... No matter how many descriptions are given, they never seem to suffice in capturing all that Su Dongpo was.
今天看他，是一個性情中人，一個偉大的人道主義者，一個無可救藥的樂觀主義者，一個大文豪，一個大書法家，一個美食家，一個釀酒實驗家，一個佛教徒，一個詩人……。說的再多，似乎都不足以道盡蘇東坡的全部。