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Around 2,700 of Su Song's poems have survived, along with 800 written letters. Su Dongpo excelled in the "shi", "ci" and "fu" forms of poetry, as well as prose, calligraphy and painting. Some of his notable works include the First and Second "Chibifu" ( "The Red Cliffs", written during his first exile), "Nian Nu Jiao: Chibi Huai Gu" ( "Remembering Chibi, to the tune of Nian Nu Jiao") and "Shui diao ge tou" ( "Remembering Su Zhe on the Mid-Autumn Festival", ). The two former poems were inspired by the Battle of Chibi, a naval battle of the Three Kingdoms era that occurred in the year 208. The bulk of his poems are in the "shi" style, but his poetic fame rests largely on his 350 "ci" style poems. Su Shi also founded the haofang school, which cultivated an attitude of heroic abandon. In both his written works and his visual art, he combined spontaneity, objectivity and vivid descriptions of natural phenomena. Su Shi wrote essays as well, many of which are on politics and governance, including his "Liuhoulun" (). His popular politically charged poetry was often the reason for the wrath of Wang Anshi's supporters towards him, culminating with the Crow Terrace Poetry Trial of 1079. He also wrote poems on Buddhist topics, including a poem later extensively commented on by Eihei Dōgen, the founder of the Japanese Sōtō school of Zen, in a chapter of his work Shōbōgenzō entitled "The Sounds of Valley Streams, the Forms of Mountains".