His most famous poem is: "The whole country is vague and there are holes in the wellhead. The yellow dog is white and the white dog is swollen. " This poem should be regarded as a masterpiece.
One winter, a senior official went to worship the ancestral temple. As soon as he entered the main hall, he saw a poem written on the white plaster wall: "Just like a jade girl going down to Qiong Yao, she will be fine one day. Let a broom be a broom and a shovel be a shovel." The official was furious and immediately ordered the left and right sides to find out that he was a poet, hell to pay. A tout report said, "Don't look it up, my Lord. No one else will write such a poem. It must be Zhang Dayou. " The official immediately ordered the arrest of Zhang Dayou.
Zhang Dayou listened to the official's reprimand, bowed forward and said slowly, "My Lord, I really like to praise a few poems, but I will never write such poems no matter how poor I am. Do not believe, the little one is willing to interview. "
Hearing this, the adults took a deep breath and decided to have a try. Just at that time, An Lushan soldiers were trapped in Nanyang County, so he took this as the topic and asked Zhang Zuohua to paint oil as a poem. Zhang Dayou is not humble. He blurted out, "A million thieves are trapped in Nanyang." Hearing this, the adults even said, "What a bold spirit! The first sentence is not ordinary! " Zhang Dayou said with a smile, "There is neither help nor food," the adult touched his beard and said, "This is not satisfactory. Read again. " Zhang Dayou immediately became the last three sentences in one go: "One day the city was broken,
Cry, dad, cry, mom! "These words are exactly the same as' those who make brooms make brooms and those who make shovels make shovels'. When everyone heard this, they burst into laughter, and even the big official made him laugh.
These poems are real limericks.