Sadura's poetic work that faces reality directly is "Ballad of the Vinaya". This is a poetic work that faces reality directly.
Sadura left us nearly 800 poems in his lifetime, including landscape poems describing scenery, poems describing palace life, some nostalgic for the past and some sad for the present, recounting personal and social injustices.
He is a poet who occupies a certain position in the Yuan Dynasty and even in the entire history of Chinese literature. Because he was born in Daizhou, which was called Yanmen in ancient times, his collection of poems was also named "Yanmen Collection", and he himself was called "Yanmen Talented Scholar".
The earliest publication of "Yanmen Collection" was an eight-volume edition from the Yuan Dynasty to the Zhizheng Period, which has been lost. The existing version is a fourteen-volume edition produced by Salong in the twelfth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, which is more complete. In 1982, Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House published "Yanmen Collection" edited by Yin Menglun and Zhu Guangqi. Sadura also wrote an article "Preface to the Collection of Wuyi Poems", and also left paintings such as "Yanling Diaotai Picture" and "Plum Blossom", which are now collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
Historical background:
Sadura was erudite and proficient in writing, and was good at regular script. His literary creation is mainly poetry. The contents of the poems are mainly about traveling in mountains and rivers, retreating to seclusion for leisure, admiring immortals and worshiping Buddha, and responding to social invitations. The ideological value is not high.
In poems such as "Send Marshal Guan to the Southern Expedition" and "Send Liu Zhaomo to Guilin", he even supported the rulers in suppressing the revolting people. But some poems involve the dark reality of Yuan Dynasty society and reflect the class oppression at that time. For example, "Datong Station", "Moonlight Night on the Yellow River", "Ballad of the Winding Girl", "Picture of the Weaver Girl", etc., reflect the miserable life of the working people.