Artistic characteristics:
Chen Shidao's poems are all based on academic proficiency. He emphasizes painstaking chanting and pursues clumsiness. He strives to simplify words and sentences to eliminate flowery words and beautiful words. His poems temper the hard work. It is no different from Huang Tingjian. It is called Houshan style. When the poem reaches Houshan style, it can be said that it has reached the end of the road. It has no intention of being colorful and cannot gallop talent. Without talent and beauty, it will only be thin and stiff. But later Those who are good at five-character poems on the mountain often use clumsiness as their craftsmanship. They are simple, elegant and light, thin and boney, and try their best without leaving any trace. They learn from Lao Du and get the essence of it, and reach the sublime state of being without words.
Chen Shidao's literary achievements mainly lie in poetry creation. He himself said: "At the beginning of poetry, there was no poetic method." Later, when he saw Huang Tingjian's poems, he couldn't put it down. He burned his past poem manuscripts together and learned from Huang. The two respected each other. The Jiangxi School of Poetry listed Huang Tingjian, Chen Shidao, and Chen Yuyi as the "three schools". In fact, Chen Shidao only studied Huang Tingjian's poetic style for a period of time. Later, he discovered that Huang Tingjian was "too surprising, not as strange as Du Zhi's encounter with things" ("Later") "Mountain Poems"), so he devoted himself to studying Du.