Ai Qing is good at capturing images accurately and appropriately, giving them a wide range of symbolic meanings, making poems more profound and rich, making people think and remember, such as Snow Falling in China. He attaches great importance to the integration of sound and color, and constructs novel images through the integration of the two, thus achieving the unique situation of poems such as The Trumpet and the Torch. He is good at using color rendering and even composing the arrangement of lines to increase the vividness of the image, such as "Handcart".
Ai Qing's poems have the beauty of prose. Many of his poems don't rhyme, but let feelings flow freely and infect readers through inner passion.