Su Dongpo - earliest ancestor of the Tô family?

The last few weeks Phi's aunt, Cô Út Câu, gave us some very interesting information. She told us about a generation poem of the Tô / Su family, which Phi's great grandfather Tô Nươn Ngươn / Su Kai Zhen brought from China to Vietnam. Her son sent us a transcribed version of it. This is the poem.

The poem is supposed to be written by Su Shi, better known as Su Dongpo. If that's true, then my wife must be a descendant of that man.

Su Dongpo was an important historical figure who lived from 1037 to 1101. He "was a writer, poet, artist, calligrapher,pharmacologist, gastronome, and statesman of the Song Dynasty, and one of the major poets of the Song era."

Here are 2 pictures of Su Dongpo and, to the right a document, written by Su Dongpo himself.

Extract from Wikipedia about Su Dongpo:

Su Shi was born in Meishan, near Mount Emei in what is now Sichuan province. His brother Su Zhe (蘇轍) and his father Su Xun (蘇洵) were both famous literati. Su married at age 17. Su and his younger brother had an extremely close relationship and in 1057, when Su was 19, he and his brother both passed the (highest-level) civil service examinations to attain the degree of jinshi, a prerequisite for high government office.

Beginning in 1060 and throughout the following twenty years, Su held a variety of government positions throughout China; most notably in Hangzhou, where he was responsible for constructing a pedestrian causeway across the West Lake that still bears his name: suti (蘇堤, Su causeway).

Su Shi was often at odds with a political faction headed by Wang Anshi. Su Shi once wrote a poem criticizing Wang Anshi's reforms. The dominance of the reformist faction at court allowed the New Policy Group greater ability to have Su Shi exiled for political crimes.

During this period, he began Buddhist meditation. With help from a friend, Su built a small residence on a parcel of land in 1081. Su Shi lived at a farm called Dongpo ('Eastern Slope'), from which he took his literary pseudonym.

After a long period of political exile, Su received a pardon in 1100 and was posted to Chengdu. However, he died in Changzhou, Jiangsu province after his period of exile and while he was en route to his new assignment in the year 110. Su Shi was 64 years old.


Family

Su Shi had two wives and a concubine. His first wife was Wang Fu (王弗, 1039–1065), an astute, quiet lady from Sichuan who married him at the age of sixteen, when Su was nineteen. Wang Fu died in 1065, on the second day of the fifth Chinese lunar month (Gregorian calendar June 14), after bearing him Su Mai (蘇邁).

In 1068, two years after Wang Fu's death, Su married Wang Runzhi (王闰之, 1048–93), Fu's paternal younger cousin and his junior by eleven years. Wang Runzhi spent the next 15 years accompanying Su through his ups and downs in officialdom and political exile.

Wang Runzhi died in 1093, aged forty-six, after bearing Su two sons, Su Dai (蘇迨) and Su Guo (蘇過).

Su's concubine Wang Zhaoyun (王朝雲, 1062–1095) was his handmaiden who was a former Qiantang singing artiste. Su redeemed Wang when she was twelve years old and she later became his concubine, teaching herself to read though she was formerly illiterate. Zhaoyun was probably the most famous of Su's companions. Zhaoyun remained a faithful companion to Su after Runzhi's death, but died of illness on August 13, 1095 (绍圣三年七月五日) at Huizhou.[11] Zhaoyun bore Su a son Su Dun (蘇遁) on November 15, 1083, who died in his infancy. After Zhaoyun's death, Su never married again.

Recently I found information on a Chinese website about a 490 year old Zupu of Su Dongpo discovered in China in the Jianxi province, south of Wuhan:

Figures of Su Shi (right) and his son Su Zhe (left) in the pedigree

A 490-year-old pedigree of Su Family was recently found at Guantian Village, Shidu Town, Wuning County, Jiangxi Province. It was compiled in the 1st year of Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty (1522). The pedigree is about 50cm long and 30cm wide. It was printed on rough paper and there was dragon pattern on the top of every page. The pedigree covers figures of Su Qin, Su Wu, Su Shi and Su Zhe as well as postscript and preface written by celebrities such as Wen Tianxiang and Fang Xiaoru.

The next step would be to go to China and find search the Zupu's, I suppose...