On one occasion, when he returned to Beijing on a imperial edict, he was demoted to the state secretariat for "visiting the customs" and was later appointed as the state secretariat. Instead of sinking, he faced the changes in the world with a positive and optimistic attitude. This poem just expresses his feelings.
This quatrain imitates the tone of the gold digger, and shows their disgust for the gold digger's career and their yearning for a better life. Living by the river, the Tianhe River where Cowherd and Weaver Girl live is quiet and beautiful, but the gold diggers along the Yellow River are rushing for a living all day.
I went straight to the Milky Way, visited the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid, and pinned my hopes for a quiet rural life. This kind of wave, full of ideals, pours out "can stay but want to be empty" in heroic spoken language, but he actively participates in Yongzhen's innovation, in fact, he still wants to realize his life ideal in society.
His personality is also stubborn, influenced by Taoist thought, but his poems often show a high-spirited, cheerful spirit. For example, one of the two poems "Autumn Poetry" and "Climbing the Tower with Lotte" has a high-spirited power. Liu Yuxi's poetry is clear because of its implicit and deep connotation, open and generous realm and lofty and upward emotion.
Liu Yuxi was demoted to the south many times, where folk songs prevailed. Therefore, Liu Yuxi often collects folk songs and learns their styles to create poems. For example, the poem "Egret Son" describes his lonely feelings figuratively, but uses a faint folk song style.
There are also some works that completely imitate folk songs, such as Lyrics of Ta, Poems of Langtaosha, Missing the Old Times of Xipaotai Mountain, etc., which are simple and natural, fresh and lovely, and exude the rich flavor of life like folk songs. The following two songs are particularly vivid: the second of three songs on the embankment and the first of two songs by Zhi Zhu.