More than 800 of his poems exist. He studied folk songs, poems that reflected people's lives and customs, with broad themes. The style drew on the implicit, subtle, simple and beautiful characteristics of Bashu folk songs, which were fresh and natural, healthy and lively, and full of the interest of life. His satirical poems often use allegory to support objects, criticize the powerful people who suppressed Yongzhen's innovation, and involve a wide range of social phenomena. In his later years, his style gradually became more subtle, satirical without revealing any traces of it. There are also more than 40 lyrics in existence, with the characteristics of folk songs. When Liu Yuxi was in Luoyang, he and Bai Juyi created the "Recalling Jiangnan" lyrics.