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Sounds like the Chinese variant of Diogenes at work, I'd love to hear more details - was this something that really happened or a clever tale constructed later? If those people were real, what else did they produce?
Apparently the poet was "Su Dongpo" and the friend was "Fo yin" if you google the names together, this story comes up.
Super random but there is also apparently a dish named after the poet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongpo_pork
Thanks, that should be enough for diving down a research rabbit hole!