Su Shi is a very interesting person. He can be said to be both extremely intelligent and confused; Or he can't communicate with others, but he is also a person who likes to make friends; He is both a pessimist and an optimist. I think this is him, a person who can not be copied - Su Shi.
In this article, Su Shi can be said to be a complete madman, because he can sleep in the middle of the night and run out to see the scenery because of the good moonlight. He also has to go to Chengtian Temple to bring his good friends to see it. I think this kind of thinking is not available. Moreover, this kind of behavior that may disturb people's dreams is really not a good choice.
I think it didn't matter where Su Shi looked at the scenery at that time. Otherwise, he would not have stayed in Chengtian Temple for a walk after finding Zhang Huaimin. Su Shi's sentence at the end of the article, "But few idle people are like the ears of both of us", may indicate that what he really needed at that time was another idle person who could accompany him. There is a saying in the observation of ancient prose: "The melody is higher, and the music is smaller.". Su Shi's personality is too lofty, so there must be few people who can sing with him in the movement of his life. He does not want to lower his status and associate with the secular world, so it is doomed that his bosom friend is hard to find. Otherwise, with Su Shi's talent, why worry about having no friends around him, and why worry about having no power in the palm?
For Su Shi, life should be as pure as moonlight, as beautiful as water, and this society should be the same. However, the composition of the shadows of bamboos and cypresses is really fragmented and turbid, and those small people like water plants all pretend to be the shadows of bamboos and cypresses. They compare themselves to the pure cypresses and bamboos, and are high-end and innocent, looking like a gentleman. I think Su Shi may have been transferred from the capital repeatedly because he did not want to be a member of the aquatic plants, and those aquatic plants may have been framed repeatedly because Su Shi's innocence would affect their expansion.
Perhaps for Su Shi, the best choice is to be a Dongpo Buddhist monk, to see a scene and write a poem with friends in Chengtian Temple.
Notes on Night Tour of Chengtian Temple