Li Yu is incompetent in administration, but he has a high position in Ci studies. His early works are mostly about palace entertainment, with soft style and superb skills, such as "Jade House Spring" and "Ah Hu Zhu". In his later period, he wrote more about the pain of national subjugation, with sincere feelings and profound artistic conception, such as Broken Array, Beauty of Bai Weiling, Naughty Sand Order and Nightingale? Boudoir in autumn and so on.
Li Yugou lived a luxurious life, and often made and sold a golden red silk curtain wall in the palace, inlaid with platinum and hawksbill, and inserted with exotic flowers and herbs, entitled "Golden Cave", and wrote lyrics and played music with Queen Zhou Xian: on the seventh day of July, he ordered people to dress up as Tianhe in the Moon Palace with red silk to create inspiration for lyrics. However, the reality is not as beautiful as the world in poetry. In the eighth year of Kaibao (975), Song Jun attacked Jinling and Cixi was captured. The life of "breaking the water cloud sword with a flute and singing the song" Nishang "again" has become a bubble. He couldn't help sighing, "How much sorrow can you have, just like a river flowing eastward", but it was too late, and Song Taizu poisoned you.
The poet Guo Lin also lamented: "Being a talented person is really unparalleled, being a poor and unlucky king." Previously on Hidden Fish. Song Taizu also said in Xiqing Poetry: "If Li Yu rules the country with poetry, is it for me?"