Su Shi also targeted what he saw as injustices.

In his poem Song of Using the Stick with a Hook to Paddle Water to Catch Fish written in 1072, he satirized the fact that there were too many criminal penalties, which made people feel like fish stirred in water.

In one of his five famous four-line politically satirical poems about mountain villages which almost cost his life in 1079, he wrote that people in the mountain were hungry and poor, and that a 70-year-old man did not have salt for three months, which mocked the severe salt law.

Yin Bo contributed to the story.

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