In the early years of Yuan You, Su Shi recommended his literary works to Professor Zhou Xu, Dr. imperial academy, Professor Yingzhou and Secretary Sheng Zhengzi. I have been poor and happy all my life, and I have the reputation of "looking for a sentence behind closed doors and saying that I have no self". Chen Shidao can also write lyrics. His lyrics style is similar to poetry, and he is good at shocking the police with ups and downs. However, there are also some shortcomings in his poems, such as narrow content and difficult to understand.
Chen Shidao's daily life is so poor that he can't support his family, so he has to send his wife and three children to his father-in-law's house. Poems such as Farewell to Uncle Guo, Farewell to Uncle Guo, Dong 'a, Farewell to Uncle Guo's Sentence, Farewell to the Third Son, and Thirteen Sons describe the pain of family members' "poverty".
Chen Shidao's Classic of Mountains and Seas was originally edited by his protege Wei Yan. 6 volumes of condensed poems, 14 volumes. Shi Hua and Tan Cong are not their own books. In Song Dynasty, Ren Yuan annotated Houshan's poems, and analyzed the original poems into six volumes, namely 12. In the Qing Dynasty, Mao Guangsheng wrote the supplementary notes of volume 12, and added two volumes of Yi Shi Jian. There are also 24 volumes of Houshan Collection, 8 volumes of Poetry Collection, 9 volumes of Prose Collection, 4 volumes of Tan Cong, Poetry Talk 1 volume, Li Research and Long and Short Sentences, and four printed copies.