This nearly 1,000-year-old Chinese poem went viral on social media recently.
Netizens: "incredible, a thousand year-old tweet." "This was funny, but then I read the part about it being 1000 years old and now I'm sad. We truly haven't changed."
Its author Su Shi, also commonly referred to as Su Dongpo, was a Chinese calligrapher, gastronome, painter, pharmacologist, poet, politician, and writer of the Song dynasty (960–1276 A.D.).