Abstract: SU Zhe's poems written in his later years have been ignored for a long time. This paper finds some distinctive features of those works through careful reading. By marking the date in poem titles, SU brought a solemn sense to his life. His attention to the weather in his poems revealed the situation that he depended on the income from the farm. Many family events were recorded, including detailed description of house construction, and he mainly wrote poems with his family members. This demonstrates that family life had become most important in his old age under the circumstance of political restriction. In addition, he showed great interest in gardening. In his spiritual life, he converted to Zen Buddhism from Daoism. To sum up, this paper attempts to prove that SU Zhe's lifestyle as a retired scholar-official resulted in the fact that his literary works were centered on daily life, which might have great influence in the writing of poets such as LU You in their later years in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Key words: SU Zhe, later years, writing on daily life, retired scholar-officials