Fan Chengda is famous for his literary reputation, especially his poems. Together with Yang Wanli, Lu You and You Mao, they are also known as the "Four Poets of Zhongxing" in the Southern Song Dynasty. In his early years, he was deeply influenced by Jiangxi School. In some existing early works, we can see many phenomena of language slowness and allusions, as well as some Zen-like and Confucianism-like arguments. However, while studying Jiangxi's poetic style, Fan Chengda widely absorbed the style and skills of poems in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and inherited the realistic spirit of poets such as Bai Juyi, Wang Jian and Zhang Ji's Xinle Fu, such as the Music Divine Comedy, so he clearly stated that he would "work for Wang Jian". On the basis of learning from others, he broke through the shadow of Jiangxi poetry style. In particular, many modern poems are euphemistic and beautiful, each with its own characteristics. His poems are light in style, but easy to learn.
Among Fan Chengda's poems, Jin Jixing's poems and pastoral poems are the most valuable. During the ten years when Fan Chengda retired from Shihu, he wrote many pastoral poems, among which Miscellanies of Four Seasons Pastoral was the most famous. This group of poems ***60 seven-character quatrains, with 12 poems as a group, is divided into rural life of wing chun day, late spring day, summer day, autumn day and winter day. Qian Zhongshu called it "the epitome of China's ancient pastoral poetry" in Notes on Selected Poems of Song Dynasty. This kind of poem had a great influence in the late Southern Song Dynasty.