Su Shi was a prominent Song literatus in the history of Chinese Literature. The bold, heroic, unbridled, and broadminded quality of his literary expression, as well as his personality, has become a model and inspired numerous writers of the later generations. This essay centers on the texts of Chinese opera which take Su Shi as the main character from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, including nine texts of Variety Plays (Zaju), six texts of Dramatic Romances (Chuanqi), and two works of contemporary Chinese opera, and discusses how these texts represent and reconstruct the image of Su Shi as a literatus by adapting Su's biography and anecdotes into their narratives. Furthermore, it analyzes the characteristic of contemporary Chinese opera, and explores the characterization and significance of Su Shi in Chinese opera.